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Resources ng gobyerno dapat ibuhos sa gyera laban sa COVID-19 upang maayos na mabuksan ang ating ekonomiya Problema sa PhilHealth hindi sana lumala kung nagabayan ng Board o “Big Brothers” na binubuo ng Secretaries of DOH, DOF, DBM, DOLE, DSWD ang mga polisiyang pinatupad sa

How can government reward medical frontliners? Let us count some of the ways. Release of hazard pay, now na. Regularization. Promotion. As to promotion, kung di pa kaya ng mass testing sa tao, mass promotion muna sa mga nagta-trabaho. There are two kinds of job promotion. One is

The Expanded Program of Immunization has a budget of P7.5 billion this year, to cover about 12 million individuals, from infants to seniors.  As of end of June 2020, only 2.8 million individuals, not even one-fourth of the target, have been vaccinated. That is the sad

Senators amend the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act/Bayanihan II After finding out that health workers who got infected by COVID-19 have not yet received the promised compensation from the government (P1 million to families of those who died, and P100,000 to those who got infected

Hiring contact tracers “is a good way to stop the second wave of the pandemic from coming and to stem the tsunami of joblessness,” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said.  Recto said such a “cash-for-work” scheme should be the template in providing emergency

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto 13 May 2020 A medical diploma carries a hefty price tag in this country. Tuition is so high, and other fees so prohibitive, that the joke is that medical schools should put a recovery room beside the school cashier. Or deploy crash

Republic of the PhilippinesCongress of the PhilippinesMetro ManilaEighteenth CongressFirst Special Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-third day of March, two thousand twenty. [REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11469] AN ACT DECLARING THE EXISTENCE OF A NATIONAL

Inulit ni Recto na kailangan maging maingat tayo sa pagbabantay ng mga pumapasok na dayuhan sa bansa lalo ngayon na kalat na ang coronavirus sa malaking parte ng mundo.  “When China sneezes, we get pneumonia. If that is the case, then an ounce of border control is worth a

If the executive branch will not comply, the Senate will. If the Supreme Court has ruled that government nurses should occupy Salary Grade (SG) 15 position and not SG 10 and 11, and if such can only be enforced through an act of appropriation, then the Senate will do its part.

Not one of the nurses presently employed under the DOH Nurse Deployment Program will lose their jobs next year on account of the projected budget cuts. RN pa rin sila, Retained Nurses. This is the assurance made on record and in the open by Senator Go, the sponsor of the DOH