Bacolod City on Negros Island (Image from Google Maps)
BACOLOD CITY – The Church People-Workers Solidarity (CWS) supports the planned mass protest of a group of health workers from private and public hospitals over the failure of the Department of Health (DOH) to release their benefits.
San Carlos Bishop Gerardo Alminaza, CWS chairperson, said the planned mass protest by the Alliance of Health Workers is just and legitimate in the midst of the government’s failure to listen to the grievances of the health sector.
He pointed out that state auditors recently released a report on billions of pesos found to have been unused or misused by the DOH.
“Thousands of overworked and underpaid health workers expressed their disgust about unreleased benefits and not receiving their hazard pay on time,” Alminaza said.