New Taipei Mayor Hou Yu-ih (侯友宜), the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) presidential nominee, pledged Saturday to gradually raise Taiwan's health spending to eventually comprise 8 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) in a bid to tackle the acute shortage of nurses the country is contending with.
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