{"id":204699,"date":"2019-03-01T23:53:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T04:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=204699"},"modified":"2019-03-01T23:53:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T04:53:18","slug":"doh-to-pay-hire-health-workers-upon-2019-gaa-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/03\/01\/doh-to-pay-hire-health-workers-upon-2019-gaa-release\/","title":{"rendered":"DOH to pay, hire health workers upon 2019 GAA release"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_184034\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184034\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/doh-bicol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-184034\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/doh-bicol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-184034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More health workers will be hired and salaries paid once the 2019 budget is released, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday. (PNA file Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; More health workers will be hired and salaries paid once the 2019 budget is released, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the DOH said around 26,000 rural health doctors, public health nurses, rural health midwives, dentists, medical technologists, pharmacists, nutritionist-dieticians, and other health workers under the Human Resource for Health (HRH) program will be hired.<\/p>\n<p>Of this number, some 17,205 positions will be opened for nurses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will receive full benefits similar to the benefits of a permanent employee, a policy that DOH has actively pushed for. This is our direct response to the need to augment health workers,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>Under the HRH program, health workers and professionals are deployed in unserved and underserved areas in support of the Universal Health Care (UHC) policy.<\/p>\n<p>The department said through the recently-enacted UHC law, the needed health reforms would be established and health workers, considered the &#8220;backbone&#8221; of a &#8220;strong health system&#8221;, are vital in its implementation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are gaps that clearly need to be addressed and we want to start building the health reforms that we need through the UHC law,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The DOH assured the health workers, whose salaries and deployment have been delayed due to the pending approval and release of the 2019 General Appropriations Act (GAA), that &#8220;steps are being taken&#8221; with the help of local government units (LGUs) and other government offices.<\/p>\n<p>The DOH reiterated the success of the HRH program works on the &#8220;strong support&#8221; of LGUs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; More health workers will be hired and salaries paid once the 2019 budget is released, the Department of Health &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":184034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","mauthors-ma-teresa-montemayor","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}