11.   Public hospitals provided basic, minimal services, and many patients had to hire private nurses to care for them.

12.   Meanwhile, student and private nurses will be recruited to to fill the gap, he said.

13.   Some hospitals reported they would stay open with private nurses and personnel, while several day care centers said they will have to turn away some children.

14.   The change is not expected to affect foreign housekeepers and private nurses, most of them from the Philippines.