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The group protested that due benefits and allowances under the Republic Act. No. 11469, or the “Bayanihan to Heal as One” Act, are yet to be received by health workers who at present are working tirelessly to respond to surging cases of COVID-19 in various hospitals.
The law alloted P13.5 billion for health-related responses.
“The abandonment of frontliner health workers by the Duterte regime, is the undisputed proof of its ‘criminal negligence and insincerity’ to resolve the pandemic crisis. While the whole population is unanimous in supporting the health workers, the ‘#DutertePalpak syndicate’ acts on the contrary, thus, it should be seriously held accountable,” Ariel Casilao, Anakpawis Party-list national president and former representative. said in a press statement.
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Published March 17, 2021 1:11am The government’s efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19 across the country had been a failure” a year after it implemented a widespread community quarantine, the Alliance of Health Workers (AHW) said Tuesday. “After a year of lockdown, the government COVID-19 response is nothing but a failure, incompetent, inefficient and negligent. It has not solved the spread of the disease and infection but rather increased the number of people infected every day,” the AHW said in a statement. “The new COVID-19 variant has added to the rate of infection, including the homegrown variant which is highly contagious,” it added.