A group of private hospitals appealed to some healthcare workers who threatened to go on mass resignation not to push through with their plan as the country continues its fight against the threat of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
“Sana naman ‘wag nila ituloy iyon dahil malaki ang magiging effect dahil pandemic pa ngayon (I hope they won’t pursue that because it will have a big effect because there is a pandemic),” Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines Inc. (PHAPI) president Dr. Jose Rene de Grano said in an interview over CNN Philippines on Sunday, Aug. 15.
It was recently reported that healthcare workers from private hospitals threatened to go on mass resignation due to lack of benefits.
With this, de Grano called on the government to distribute the special risk allowance of healthcare workers who are risking their lives in the frontline of the country’s battle against COVID-19 and its highly transmissible variants.
The Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) has since discouraged the plan of some healthcare workers to go on mass resignation amid the country’s ongoing battle against the dreaded disease.
“As much a possible, we don’t encourage them na gawin yan kasi ang maaapektuhan po ang pasyente (to do that because it will affect the patients),” said PNA national president Melbert Reyes in an interview with TeleRadyo.
“Pero hindi natin sila masisisi kung gagawin nila yan sapagkat ang pagpapahalaga at malasakit na binibigay ng gobyerno ay hindi talaga nila nararamdaman (But we can’t blame them if they do that because they don’t really feel the appreciation and concern from the government),” he added.