DOH pushes for salary standards, better benefits to keep health workers at home

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Health workers from the government-run Philippine General Hospital hold placards as they ask the government to release their risk allowances amid rising Covid-19 coronavirus infections, in Manila on August 26, 2021.

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MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health on Tuesday said it is working to standardize the salaries and improve the benefits of healthcare workers to encourage medical professionals to stay in the Philippines.

 

For decades, health workers—who are often underpaid and unappreciated locally—have been leaving the country for better pay and working conditions abroad.

 

Health officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said the government “cannot prevent our healthcare workers from leaving because that’s their right to find more productive and bigger pay.”

 

Full Story: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2023/01/17/2238237/doh-pushes-salary-standards-better-benefits-keep-health-workers-home

 

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