The local government of Manila has started vaccinating the immediate family members of the city’s healthcare workers on July 1. (Manila City PIO / MANILA BULLETIN) The vaccination for family members of A1 was held in Sta. Ana Hospital, Ospital ng Maynila, Gat Andres Bonifacio, Justice Jose Abad...
Senator Sonny Angara on Thursday, July 1 assured that benefits and other provisions for health care workers and frontliners in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic will continue despite the expiration of the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act or Bayanihan 2 last June 30. Angara, who chairs the...
June 30, 2016. The day the country welcomed former Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte as its 16th president. Duterte's victory in the 2016 polls came as a surprise to many, being the first local official to be catapulted to the presidency. He anchored his candidacy on making the Philippines a safer...
Healthcare workers The P9 billion special risk allowance (SRA) for healthcare workers has already been distributed to the regional offices of the Department of Health (DOH), the agency’s spokesperson said on Tuesday, June 29. “Iyong perang binigay sa atin ng DBM (Department of Budget and...
A total of 14,000 doses of Sinovac vaccines will be allocated to the 7,000 tourism industry workers in Davao who will initially get the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) jab, the Department of Tourism (DOT) announced Tuesday, June 29. A health worker administers a coronavirus vaccine to a Manila...
Hundreds of residents from Cebu City who are under A1, A2, A3 priority lists which refer to medical frontliners, senior citizens, and people with comorbidities line up to receive Pfizer vaccines at the University of Cebu on May 19, 2021 (JUAN CARLO DE VELA / MANILA BULLETIN) The Department of...
The Department of Education (DepEd) vowed Monday, June 28, to assist its more than 900,000 public school teachers in securing their Philippine National Public Key Infrastructure (PNPKI) digital signatures as part of its commitment to ensure “secure and peaceful” May 2022 elections. (Photo from...
Senator Imee Marcos on Monday, June 28, chided the Department of Labor and Employement (DOLE) for supposedly failing to regularly conduct labor inspections in television and movie production outfits. Senator Imee Marcos (Senate of the Philippines) At the hearing of the Senate labor committee on the...
The government is committed to look after the welfare of the country's health workers, and provide them with supplies needed to combat the pandemic, President Duterte said Thursday. President Rodrigo Duterte deliver a speech during the ceremonial signing of several laws in Malacañang on June 24,...
The Department of Health (DOH) assured the country’s healthcare workers that they will soon receive their allowances for their meals, accommodation, and transportation. MB/FILE PHOTO “The Secretary of Health is all out to support kasi alam naman natin na sila ang lifelines, frontliners at dapat...
Health workers from public hospitals in Metro Manila stormed the Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday, June 22, to call for the immediate release of their benefits. (Photo from AHW) Various health workers held a noise barrage and "die-in protest" in front of the DOH gate to ask for the unreleased...
Health workers from the Philippine Orthopedic Center (POC) on Monday, June 21, staged a noise barrage to air their grievances about accommodation and transport benefits. (Photo from AHW) POC is among the Department of Health hospitals that was forced to return the funds in compliance to the DOH...
