The Quezon City government has passed a measure granting monetary allowance to volunteers at its vaccination centers.
Mayor Joy Belmonte signed Ordinance No. SP-3024 S. 2021 providing medical volunteers and staff a daily allowance of up to P2,500 to cover their food, transportation and other necessities.
“It is only right and just that we give them a daily allowance so they won’t be spending their personal funds for transportation and food, for example,” Belmonte said in a statement Thursday.
Starting June 1, anyone who will sign up as a qualified volunteer will be remunerated per day based on the following categories: P2,500 for medical doctors, P1,400 for dentists and nurses, P1,300 for post-graduate interns, P1,000 for other allied medical professionals, and P800 for midwives.
"Malaking tulong na ang serbisyong binibigay nila sa ating lungsod lalo na't kulang tayo sa mga medical staff gaya ng mga doktor at nurse na kwalipikadong magbakuna (Their service are a big help for us since we lack medical staff, such as doctors and nurses who are qualified to administer the vaccination program).
The ordinance was introduced by Councilors Franz Pumaren, Eric Medina, Jun Ferrer, Donny Matias, and Lala Sotto-Antonio.