Around 100 emergency medical frontliners of the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center (EVRMC) are staying at the Leyte Park Hotel & Resort for free for a month as part of the government's efforts to protect healthcare workers and reopen the economy.
This was made possible through the close coordination and partnership between the Office of the Civil Defense (OCD), and the Offices of House Majority Leader and Leyte 1st District Rep. Martin Romualdez, and Tingog party-list Rep. Yedda Marie Romualdez.
“It is time for businesses to resume. This will help reopen our economy, preserve jobs and a show of malasakit (compassionate act) to our medical frontliners,” the Romualdezes said.
They thanked OCD Region 8 Chairman Lord Byron P. Torrecarion “for a job well done” and for fulfilling its mandate to protect healthcare workers, by ensuring a safer place for them to stay.
The Romualdez couple said full support should be extended to the medical workers, considering their sacrifices during this time of pandemic crisis.
“Despite being overworked, underpaid and at great risk, our healthcare workers have remained committed to their mandate. They are our heroes
for spearheading the fight against the COVID-19,” they said.
“We have to protect our medical workers from the stress of their work by ensuring that they have safe and comfortable place to stay. Rest assured that your representatives in Congress are in close
coordination with the Executive Department in trying to find ways on
how to minimize the economic impact and social cost of COVID-19,” they
said.
The Offices of the two House leaders assisted the OCD in identifying the 100 emergency medical frontliners from the EVRMC Magsaysay and Cabalawan branches who are to be billeted at the Leyte Park Hotel & Resort.
Tingog president Glenn Capucion said the OCD is eyeing to provide accommodation to the frontliners from one month to three months and is seeking the lease of 20 additional rooms to house 40 more health workers.
“The Romualdez couple and the OCD officials have been working
together to help our medical frontliners,” he said.
The hotel room keys were turned over to the medical frontliners last Friday, July 17.