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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.
(JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN)
“Looking back to what happened last year and until now, despite the prompt and sincere response of health workers to save lives and cure victims of the disease, the DOH (Department of Health) and government authorities remain extremely slow, numb, and deaf in responding to the needs of health workers and patients,” said AHW National President Robert Mendoza in a statement.
Mendoza lamented the delayed release of benefits and the lack of personal protective equipment for health workers.
“Nothing has changed in our situation: many health workers from the regions still lack protective gears, severe understaffing in public hospitals and health facilities that lead to health workers to extend long hours of duty, low wages, over delayed payment of miniscule and selective benefits such as actual hazard duty pay and special risk allowance,” said Mendoza.