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Health workers hold motorcade to press for rights, welfare
Health workers hold ‘die-in’ protest action today, National Health Workers Day (Photo courtesy of AHW)“We hope that Secretary Duque understands that every minute in our lives as health workers matters. Many from our ranks got sick and succumbed to COVID-19 already. We can no longer afford to spend more time to wait in order to get our rightful benefits and demands.”
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
MANILA – Filipino health workers commemorated their day through a motorcade to reiterate calls for the upholding of their rights and welfare protection more than a year after the pandemic broke.
Philippines hospitals on verge of collapse: Amnesty 1 minute read
Bangkok, Apr 26 (EFE).- Rights organization Amnesty International said Monday that hospitals in Manila and neighboring provinces are on the verge of collapse due to the rapid increase in Covid-19 infections in the Philippines, the second most affected country in Southeast Asia.
In a statement, Amnesty said authorities have not acted adequately to curb Covid-19, which has caused the saturation of hospitals, while accusing them of taking advantage of the pandemic to persecute human rights activists.
“It is heartbreaking to see dozens of ambulances and private vehicles waiting outside hospitals. Inside are Covid-19 patients along with their families, some dying while waiting for treatment,” said Emerlynne Gil, Amnesty’s regional deputy director.
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Senator Francis Pangilinan
(Senate of the Philippines / FILE PHOTO)
“Malinaw na hindi sapat ang compensation para sa ating public health workers lalo na ngayong pandemya. Sila na nga ang nahaharap sa panganib, hindi pa mapunan ang kanilang mga pangangailangan upang, unang una, maging ligtas habang nasa frontlines at pangalawa, mabigyan ng katumbas na pasahod ang kanilang serbisyo (It is clear that the compensation being given to public health workers is not enough. They are in the frontlines against dangers but their requirements are lacking so that they would be safe and they should be given salaries equal to their services),” Pangilinan said in a statement on Wednesday, April 21.