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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 28) Vice President Leni Robredo has expressed dismay over the proposal of the Department of Labor and Development to deploy health workers overseas in exchange for COVID-19 vaccines.
In her radio show Biserbisyong Leni on Sunday, Robredo noted that instead of merely doing lip service, the government should be seeking ways to improve the working conditions in the health sector which often compel workers there to look for opportunities abroad. Maraming nagsasabing bayani ang ating health workers pero paano ba natin sila tini-treat? asked Robredo, urging the administration to instead consider improving the plight and other needs of workers in the health sector.
Carlito Galvez, a former general leading the Philippine government s COVID-19 novel coronavirus response, announced in January that the country is seeking to purchase.
endIndex: The Department of Labor and Employment on Wednesday clarified that it did not intend to treat nurses and other healthcare workers as commodities to be traded in exchange for COVID-19 vaccines from the United Kingdom and Germany. (FILE PHOTO)
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 24) The Department of Labor and Employment on Wednesday clarified that it did not intend to treat nurses and other healthcare workers as commodities to be traded in exchange for COVID-19 vaccines from the United Kingdom and Germany.
The agency stressed that it merely wants to ensure that the additional workers to be deployed would have already been vaccinated using doses from the requesting country.
QUEZON CITY, Feb. 25 (PIA) The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported 5,236 COVID infected Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) were given $200 financial assistance amounting to US$1,047,200 and 124,582 OFWs were also given food and medical assistance totaling to US$2,581,758.
International Labor Affairs Bureau Director Alice Visperas with IPS Director Rolly Francia, host of the V-Cafe@ DOLE. Screengrab from IPS-DOLE FB page.
Of POLO s reported COVID cases, 14,368 OFWs were infected, 8,829 fully recovered, and 923 deaths, International Labor Affairs Bureau Director Alice Visperas reported during the February 22 V-Café @DOLE FB live program.
Breaking down COVID cases reports, Asia recorded 1,444 cases, 8,690 cases in the Middle East where 4,000 cases or almost half of which are from Qatar, and 4,234 cases from Europe and America.