From Operating Rooms to Oil Fields: How Filipino Healthcare Workers Became Saudi Arabia’s Essential Workforce
A Lifeline of Care: The Filipino Presence in Saudi Healthcare RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The hum of a modern hospital in Riyadh, with its state-of-the-art equipment and bustling corridors, feels worlds away from the rice paddies and bustling markets of the Philippines. Yet, walk its halls, and you’ll hear Tagalog spoken as frequently as Arabic,