House OKs early voting bill for PWDs, seniors, healthcare workers, lawyers on 3rd reading

Gabriel Pabico Lalu 05/08/2023

MANILA, Philippines — Senior citizens, persons with disabilities (PWDs), healthcare workers and lawyers may soon be allowed to vote earlier than the rest of the population after a bill on the matter was approved by the House…

Gov’t still owes 20,000 healthcare workers P1.94 billion in backpay

Kathleen de Villa 04/23/2023

MANILA, Philippines — About 20,000 healthcare workers who rendered duty in private hospitals during the pandemic have yet to receive their COVID-19 allowances amounting to P1.94 billion. Data from the United Private Hospital Unions of the Philippines (UPHUP) showed…

Lapu-Lapu City finalizing list of OCA recipients

Futch Anthony Inso 08/03/2022

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — The Lapu-Lapu City Government is now finalizing the list of healthcare workers (HCWs) and non-HCWs who will receive the One Coranavirus Disease 2019 (COVID)-19 Allowance (OCA). This was confirmed by Lapu-Lapu City Health…

COA to Cebu City: Why give special risk allowance to non healthcare workers?

Morexette Marie B. Erram 07/25/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Commission on Audit (COA) has directed the Cebu City Government to stop granting financial incentives to personnel who are not directly attending to COVID-19 patients. State auditors discovered that the city spent…

Cebu City to deploy buses for nurses, healthcare workers

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/16/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City will be deploying buses for healthcare workers, who need to travel to and from the hospitals during the onslaught of Supertyphoon Odette.  The Philippine Nurses Association appealed to the tricites of…

Booster shots for healthcare workers in Cebu City starts Nov. 29

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 11/25/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Booster shots for healthcare workers in Cebu City will start on November 29, 2021, along with the start of the National Vaccination Days. Although senior citizens and people with comorbidities should be eligible…

Talisay targets to give booster shots to 400 healthcare workers per day

Morexette Marie B. Erram 11/23/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Talisay City Government is targeting to provide booster shots at a rate of 400 healthcare workers per day. The city on Monday, November 22, 2021, officially began the rollout of booster shots,…

AstraZeneca recipients urged to get other vaccine brand as booster shot

Gabriel Pabico Lalu - Reporter 11/17/2021

MANILA, Philippines — Individuals who got Astrazeneca’s COVID-19 vaccines and who are now eligible for booster shots, like healthcare workers, were advised by an infectious disease expert to use vaccines from other brands due to a possible…

Exodus of nurses alarms private hospitals

Leila B. Salaverria - Reporter 10/20/2021

MANILA, Philippines — A nurse of three years resigned from St. Luke’s Medical Center after being offered a job in the United States and P150,000 in salary and allowances given even while waiting for her deployment abroad.…

104 health workers die of COVID-19 — DOH data

Cathrine Gonzales 09/15/2021

MANILA, Philippines — A total of 104 healthcare workers who contracted COVID-19 have died, according to data from the Department of Health (DOH). Based on the latest DOH COVID-19 situation report, 24,284 healthcare workers have so far…

Cebu City begins releasing cash incentives for frontliners sent to NCR

Morexette Marie B. Erram 07/12/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City government on Monday, July 12, has announced that it has begun releasing the incentives meant for medical frontliners who were deployed in Metro Manila earlier this year. The city’s Public…

65.5% of Region 7’s medical workers fully vaccinated vs. COVID-19

Morexette Marie Erram 07/07/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — More than half of healthcare workers in Central Visayas have already been fully vaccinated, recent data from the regional health office showed. The Department of Health here (DOH-7) reported that, as of July…

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