endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 14) — The Department of Health is ready to assist hospitals in ensuring compliance with their order on conducting regular COVID-19 tests for their health workers, an official said Wednesday. In an interview with CNN Philippines' The Source, Health Undersecretary Rosario Vergeire clarified the testing protocols being imposed by the government to ensure the safety of health workers while attending to COVID-19 patients. Vergeire said the Health Department will seek ways to assist hospitals in ramping up testing after she acknowledged their financial limitations due to the pandemic. "We are going to check on this and we will try to assist hospitals so they may be able to give that protection to health workers," Vergeire said.