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FILE: Health workers in protective suits transport a body at a hospital in Manila, the Philippines, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020 (AP Photo / Aaron Favila)
MANILA, Philippines – Senator Joel Villanueva on Saturday called on the government to improve wages and benefits for the country’s healthcare workers following the lifting of the controversial ban on the deployment of medical employees.
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III previously revealed that President Rodrigo Duterte allowed only 5,000 healthcare workers a year to leave the country as the spread of coronavirus infections improved.
“While we welcome the lifting of the ban on the deployment of healthcare workers, we see this as a reminder for our government to continue to raise compensation standards for them,” said Villanueva, chairman of the Senate Labor and Employment Committee, it’s a statement. .
“As we said before when we called for the lifting of the ban from the beginning, the most effective way to get our healthcare workers to stay and work in our country is to offer better employment conditions, including competitive wages and benefits, and their payment. timely. “The senator added.
In August, the government said that only those with travel documents before March 8 can work abroad.
It was in April when the national government first banned healthcare workers from leaving the country to help fight the coronavirus disease.
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