MAMUMUHUNAN umano sa Pilipinas ang Business Executives for National Security (BENS) sa sektor ng kalusugan, digital infrastructure, at enerhiya.

Sa pakikipagpulong ni Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. sa mga opisyal ng BENS natalakay ang pagpapalakas ng kooperasyon ng Estados Unidos at Pilipinas.

Tinanong ng mga opisyal ng BENS si Pangulong Marcos kaugnay ng pagkakaroon ng business opportunity sa larangan ng healthcare system.

“So one of the main things that we are doing – in fact, we are groundbreaking a big multi-specialty hospital just outside Manila soon and we are going to open more of them as annexes hospitals,” ani Pangulong Marcos.

“I’m always been a great believer of bringing healthcare down to the grassroots level. Right now, there is a tendency for us to only go to the hospital when it is absolutely necessary … So healthcare has become an important part of this administration efforts,” dagdag pa ng Pangulo.

Sinabi ni Pangulong Marcos na ang Pilipinas ay naging biktima ng sarili nitong tagumpay lalo na noong pandemya kung kailan maraming bansa ang humiling sa Pilipinas na dagdagan ang mga ipinapadala nitong nurse abroad.

“Unfortunately, in terms of healthcare workers, we have become victims of our own success in that the Filipinos did really well during the pandemic. And so every leader I meet says ‘can we have more Filipino med techs, doctors, and nurses?’ So we’re having a shortage here,” sabi pa ng Pangulo.

“So we are trying to find schemes so as to alleviate that problem. One of the things our Department of Health has come up with is that we are coming to an arrangement with countries who will accept Filipino healthcare workers to at the same time train the equivalent number of healthcare workers that will stay in the Philippines,” dagdag pa nito.

Ayon sa Pangulo sinususugan ang pagsasagawa ng board examination upang mas dumami ang mga rehistradong nurse sa bansa.

Binanggit din ng Pangulo ang pagnanais na magkaroon ng maayos na suplay at murang kuryente kaya pinadadali umano ang pagpasok ng mga mamumuhunan sa sektor ng enerhiya.

“The ease of doing business is something that we can do immediately about because putting up power plants no matter what kind of power plants, there are six, seven years, lead time. So maybe with the new technologies maybe we can do better,” dagdag pa ng Punong Ehekutibo.

“So that we are certainly working on. The distribution has improved. The distribution is a factor because there are parts of the Philippines where they have … then there are certain areas where they do not, deficit. So that’s what we are hoping to attend to in the near term,” wika pa nito.

Sinabi rin ng Pangulo na inamyendahan ang mga batas para mas maraming mamuhunan sa digital infrastructure kasama ang pagpapalakas ng micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sa tulong ng digitalization.

Kasama sa nakipagpulong kay Pangulong Marcos sina GardaWorld Federal Services President Pete Dordal; WinFertility President & CEO Roger Shedlin; Cavalry Asset Management Managing Partner & CIO John K. Hurley; Arnold & Porter LLP Senior Partner Ramon Marks; at Pescador Resources President David C. McDonald.

SPG International President & CEO Steve Darnell; Crisis Response Company LLC President & CEO Robert Akin; Shield Capital Co-Founder & Managing Partner Raj Shah; BENS President & CEO Ret. Gen. Joseph Votel; at BENS Vice President of Programs Patrick Sweeney.

Sila ay sinamahan nina US Ambassador to the Philippines MaryKay Carlson.