(FLICKR / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The Department of Health (DOH) said it is currently working to provide special risk allowance (SRA) to more healthcare workers. The DOH said that the P311 million released by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) on Wednesday, Aug. 25, will be given to...
Health workers from Jose Reyes Memorial Medical Center (JRRMMC) on Wednesday, Aug. 25, held a noise barrage in front of their hospital lobby to call for the release of their withheld coronavirus disease (COVID-19) benefits. (Photo from AHW) JRRMMC Employees Union-Alliance of Health Workers...
Concerned that his agency will again be called out by the Commission on Audit (COA), Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Wednesday, August 25, insisted the need for a law that would authorize the grant of special risk allowances (SRA) to health care workers who are not catering to COVID-19...
The Filipino Nurses United (FNU) on Monday, Aug. 23, said healthcare workers might resort to mass resignation as part of an impending protest if their special risk allowance (SRA) will not be released by September 1. (Jansen Romero / File Photo / MANILA BULLETIN) "Sa tingin ko, isa na iyan sa...
Malacañang asked nurses and other health workers to not turn in their resignation letters amid the country's fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, assuring them that their payment was already being processed. Malacañang / JANSEN ROMERO / Manila Bulletin file photos Presidential...
Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque told the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to immediately pay private hospitals, saying the government cannot afford to derail the implementation of the Universal Health Care (UHC) law amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Presidential...
Leaders from private hospital unions on Monday, Aug. 23, harbored doubts about President Duterte's decision to order the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and Department of Health (DOH) to give health workers the benefits under Bayanihan 2 within 10 days. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) In a...
The Department of Health (DOH) said Sunday, Aug. 22, it is coordinating with the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to facilitate the request of additional funds for the benefits of healthcare workers. The Health department made the statement amid reports that mandated benefits, such as the...
President Duterte has given the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) 10 days to process the fund needed by the Department of Health (DOH) to compensate health care workers amid the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. President Duterte (RTVM Screenshot) Duterte made the statement after...
President Duterte has assured medical frontliners that the government will do its best to protect and incentivize them for their hard work and sacrifice amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. President Duterte (RTVM Screenshot) Duterte made the statement after several groups of medical...
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said that private hospitals are responsible for the release of special risk allowance (SRA) and other benefits for health workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III (Malacañang photo) The Department of Health (DOH) chief was...
Shouldn't Health Secretary Francisco Duque III be suspended, at least, over the reported deficiencies of his agency in spending COVID-19 funds? Secretary Francisco Duque III Senator Grace Poe posed this question as the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee opened its inquiry on the Department of Health's...