If anything, these local officials demonstrated – have demonstrated over the past months – that they get it when medical frontliners say, the enemy is not each other but the virus.
SUPPORT. Mayor Isko Moreno in front of the Manila City Hall. Rappler file photoMga kababayan, mag-ingat po tayo parati. Hindi po biro ang ating kinahaharap na pandemya. Hindi po sila pwedeng magkasakit.
San Juan City, Zamora said, is set to release P5,000 allowance for all public medical frontliners and P3,000 allowance for all public non-medical frontliners. A total of over 1,600 frontliners will receive the allowance, on top of their hazard pay.'HIGH MORALE.' Mayor Joy Belmonte. Photo from Belmonte's Facebook page
"Our frontliners are already exhausted. I think we need to recruit more of them, especially those coming from abroad, the new graduates. There are a lot. We have a pool. But we need to provide them with appropriate salary, the correct hazard pay, and we should do this across the board," Mayor Marcelino Teodoro told Rappler in a phone interview on Monday.
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