“If the government wants to keep our health workers within our country, then we must offer competitive salaries and benefits so they will choose to stay, instead of being forced to,” said lawyer Faith Paquiz. | jagoncilloINQ
The nurses did not complain because they knew that they were and continue to be needed in the country but the government added insult to injury when the Department of Budget and Management added a provision in a budget circular that would adjust the numerical classification of government nurses.
Goyena said President Duterte’s statement to prioritize the welfare of frontliners kindled a little hope for those who decided to stay and serve in the Philippines.“But with that circular, our hopes of getting a better life in the Philippines, that we all know could be achieved abroad, were shattered by the DBM,” he said.
“My concern is that we might be forgetting the fact that we are under a health emergency situation. Because if there will be an uncontrolled deployment of our medical workers abroad, I don’t want us to reach that point where there might be no one to look after our sick countrymen,” he added. “We must understand that they also have families who rely on them, who they need to lift from poverty and hunger,” Abenojar said.
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