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| A personnel of Las Piñas City's Health Office gets a specimen sample during a swab test held at the covered court of Barangay Talon Uno. (Photo from: Las Piñas LGU) |
[아시아뉴스통신=조날드 타파난 기자] President Rodrigo Duterte strongly recommended the inclusion of stipend and additional benefits for healthcare workers in the so-called “Bayanihan 2”, a bill that contains a stimulus package for the country’s recovery from the impact of COVID-19.
President Duterte said that if the stipend would be included, he would release it to healthcare workers without delay. Additional benefits for healthcare workers will also be included in the Bayanihan 2.
According to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, Duterte approved his Cabinet’s seven-point recommendation to address issues of healthcare workers after they called for a timeout or a shift back to a more stringest quarantine classification to curb the spread of the deadly disease. Among these are additional benefits for healthcare workers, such as risk allowance for private sector healthcare workers treating COVID-19 patients, the amount of PHP10,000 to 15,000 for every healthcare worker that gets infected with COVID-19, life insurance, free accommodation, free transportation, free and frequent testing.
