Press Release STATEMENT OF SENATOR RISA HONTIVEROS ON THE DIFFICULTIES SUFFERED BY HEALTHCARE WORKERS Everyone deserves to be taken care of in a hospital, including our health workers. The many abuses our health workers face, despite being our saving grace, are criminal. We have failed to compensate and protect them, both from the virus and misinformed law enforcement. The doctor who was detained in Rizal for not wearing a face shield while biking, the numerous reports of health workers being barred at checkpoints and being forced to pay for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) only show how misaligned our priorities are that we have allowed these to happen at all.