Wanted: Contractual health professionals for PH’s fight vs COVID-19
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) is on the lookout for healthcare professionals to augment its manpower against the COVID-19 outbreak.
The emergency hiring of physicians, nurses, medical technologists, and other support health personnel will be on a contract of service basis for a minimum of three months, DOH announced.
“This aims to augment our current health workforce, who are working tirelessly in our fight against this pandemic,” it added.
According to DOH, the monthly compensation and benefits for contractual health workers are as follows:
1. Basic salary + premium of up to 20% of basic salary.
2. Up to P500/day hazard allowance.
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Article continues after this advertisement4. P1,000/month communication and transportation allowance
5. P100,000 in case of infirmity due to COVID-19 and P1,000,000 in case of death.
6. Hospitalization benefits
7. Health personnel will also be entitled to other benefits.
Once hired, DOH said the health staff will be deployed in DOH-designated COVID-19 referral hospitals; temporary treatment and monitoring facilities for COVID-19; DOH-designated COVID-19 diagnostic facilities; Public hospitals (national and local) handling COVID-19 patients; and Private hospitals duly designated by DOH to handle COVID-19 cases.
For more information, read DOH’s Facebook post below:
https://www.facebook.com/156566631021264/posts/3236405993037297/
In his third weekly report to Congress on the use of his additional powers to address the COVID-19 crisis, President Rodrigo Duterte said the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) had approved the request of DOH to hire 857 contract-of-service (COS) workers to be deployed in different hospitals in Metro Manila.
The monthly cost for the additional workers will be around P35.823 million, chargeable against the available released allotment for DOH under the 2020 national budget.
To date, there are 5,878 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country, including 435 recoveries and 362 deaths.
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