Twenty-three New Licensed Massage Therapist from Visayas and Mindanao take their Oath after Passing the June 2 2010 Massage Therapist Licensure Examination conducted by DOH Department of Health in Davao City. Dr. Josie Hipolito, head f the DOH Human Resource Development's Secretariat Office, will administer the Oath-taking Ceremony.

Eleven of the 23 Licensed Massage Therapist are graduates from INA - International NKYR Academy, a DOH Accredited Training Institute for Massage Therapist in Cebu City, five from Ventura College of Natural Therapeutic Health and Sciences in Davao City, three each from Remnant Institute of Alternative Medicine and Hand-Med Integrative Health Care Center from Iloilo and 1 Cebuana trained in Le Petit Parodis in Makati City.
Some of the new Licensed Massage Therapist are already working with famous Resorts like Plantation Bay Resort ans Spa in Mactan Island, Marco Polo Plaza in Cebu, Hilton Cebu Resort and Spa, Boracay Holiday Inn and prominent Massage and Spa outlets nationwide like Yoga Thai Massage Cebu, K1 Spa, and LINGAM Massage Venture.
The DOH designed Massage Therapist Licensure Exam are composed of two stages. The written and the Oral and Practical. The next Massage Therapist Licensure Examination will be on December 1, 2010. Only those who have undergone formal training from DOH-accredited training institutions will be given permit to take the Exam.

INA in Cebu City located at Doña Luisita Bldg., Fuente Osmeña, the only DOH-accredited training institution in Cebu that offers a DOH Licensure Preaparatory Course. Enrolent is now going on up to September. Remedial and Review classes will be held on the month og November this year. International NKYR Academy seeks to Professionalize the Massage Therapy Vocation nationwide. They will be in Iloilo on Ju;y 20, Bacolod on July 21 and Cagayan de Oro on August 5.
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New Licensed Massage Therapist take Oath posted at Cebu Events Blog.