Published April 23, 2021, 10:38 AM
Senator Grace Poe on Friday, April 23, urged the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) not to delay its reimbursements to hospitals.
Citing repeated pleas from hospital organizations awaiting due payments from the state health insurer, Poe said hospitals should not be made to wait any longer “as they struggle to protect and save lives amid the pandemic”.
“This situation weighs heavily on our medical frontliners, patients, and the most vulnerable among our people. ‘Wag na natin silang pahirapan pa, antagal na nilang nagsasakripisyo at nagtitiis (Let’s not make them suffer anymore, they have long been sacrificing in and enduring the pandemic),” Poe said in a statement.
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Hontiveros to DOH: Emergency hiring, support for hospitals needed, not threats
Senator Risa Hontiveros has supported the calls of hospital associations for the Department of Health (DOH) to begin augmenting the healthcare workforce through emergency mass hiring of nurses as hospitals remain full due to the spike in COVID-19 cases.
Hontiveros said the DOH should treat private hospitals as partners and should support their call for private hospitals to increase capacity through the mass hiring of nurses after the Health Department released written warnings to them. The senator cited the statement of the Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines, Inc. that it is because of a human resource shortage, not limited bed capacities, that hospitals remain overwhelmed.
Sen. Risa Hontiveros(Senate of the Philippines / MANILA BULLETIN)
“Our hospitals need the Health Department’s support, not threats. They have time and time again expressed exactly what they need, but have been ignored,” Hontiveros said in a statement on Tuesday, April 20.
“Ano ba ang problema, at kailan aaminin ng DOH na meron (pangangailangan) (What’s DOH problem, and when are they going to recognize their needs)?” she asked.
Hontiveros is among the senators who supported the calls of hospital associations for the DOH to begin augmenting the healthcare workforce through emergency mass hiring of nurses as hospitals remain full due to the spike in COVID-19 cases.
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