Healthcare workers hold a protest outside the Philippines' Department of Health, demanding better wages and benefits amid rising coronavirus disease (Covid-19) infections, in Manila, Philippines, September 1, 2021. - Reuters
MANILA. Sept 5 (Philippines Daily Inquirer/ANN): A total of 14.3 billion pesos (US$718 million) worth of benefits for public and private health workers were distributed as of September 3, the Department of Health (DOH) reported Sunday.
“Medical frontliners’ sacrifices are clear to us. Within the DOH family includes 72 hospitals with more than ten thousand medical frontliners,” Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said in a statement.
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