The government will continue giving P100,000 to healthcare workers who contract a severe case of COVID-19, and P1 million to families of healthcare workers who succumb to the disease.
have different versions of the proposed measure that will extend special powers given to President Rodrigo Duterte under the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act , which lapsed on June 5. The bicameral conference is where lawmakers reconcile the two versions to finalize the proposed measure.
On August 1, more than 80 local medical groups asked Duterte to revert Metro Manila and its surrounding provinces to a modified lockdown in order to reassess the country'swith the coronavirus. Among their recommendations was to financially aid healthcare workers, who have been inadequately compensated despite being on the frontlines of the response to the pandemic.
. It does not help that special allowances and hazard pay promised them do not always reach them on time, or in full.after having been in contact with an infected patient. When her daughter Joie Cruz claimed her hazard pay from the Cainta Municipal Hospital on August 10, the deceased nurse's entitlement of P30,000 – based on the publicized P500 daily hazard pay – was reduced to P7,265 because of technicalities in policy.
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