President
Rodrigo Roa Duterte in a national televised press briefing ensured the nation that
government is on top of the situation.
Having
just announced that he has put the entire island of Luzon on an enhanced
community quarantine with the intention stopping the spreading of the novel
coronavirus 2019 disease or Covid-19.
In
the same press briefing the President thanked the country’s first line and
frontliners in this war against Covid-19 – the doctors, nurses, and other
health workers for attending to patients who tested positive for the
coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
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The Chief Executive in national tv broadcast vowed to express his
gratitude to the frontliners “in a more
tangible way” when the health crisis is over.
He also also gave a direct order to the departments of budget and
management (DBM) and health (DOH) to find a way to best compensate health
workers.
A few days back, opposition senator Rissa Hontiveros urged the
Duterte administration to the grant of hazard pay to health workers, government
employees, military and police, security personnel, service workers and other
frontliners in the government’s efforts to contain the Covid-19 outbreak.
Hontiveros finds her reasoning under the Magna Carta of Public
Health Workers (Republic Act 7305) doctors, nurses and other health workers
whose work exposes them to “danger, occupational risks and perils to life” must
receive an additional hazard pay which can be as much as 25 percent of their
monthly basic salary, depending on their pay grade.
Currently, more than 100 countries affected by Covid-19, the World
Health Organization (WHO) has declared the Covid-19 outbreak a pandemic which
means a worldwide spread of a new disease
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