President Rodrigo Duterte says he will fire the Health Department staff responsible for the delayed compensation for virus-hit health workers, but again spares Secretary Francisco Duque III. Full story:
COMPENSATION. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte set a new deadline for the release of health worker compensation. Malacanang photo
"Dalawang buwan itong letseng ito. Can [you] just imagine, two months, tapos ang secretary binubugbog araw-araw kasi wala siyang nagawa. Sino bang pagaw"Kung kasali 'yang mga 'yan, hindi na natin mapakinabangan 'yan Duque said that the 32 families of health workers who died had already been identified and will be prioritized for the new deadline. The health chief added that he has ordered his team"not to go home" just so the compensation can finally be released.
Duterte ordered Duque to form a new team that would handle the compensation release and set the new deadline to 24 hours. Earlier, the President ordered government agencies toSenators have slammed the DOH for the delayed release. Sotto on Wednesday, June 3, said that waiting for the IRR wasThe joint administrative order on the health workers' compensation was released only on June 2, Duque said.
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