{"id":257063,"date":"2020-06-04T04:58:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T08:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=257063"},"modified":"2020-06-04T04:58:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T08:58:41","slug":"prrd-wants-fallen-sick-healthcare-workers-compensated-by-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/04\/prrd-wants-fallen-sick-healthcare-workers-compensated-by-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"PRRD wants fallen, sick healthcare workers compensated by Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte holds a meeting with members of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) at the Malago Clubhouse in Malaca\u00f1ang on May 25, 2020. ACE MORANDANTE\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte is giving concerned agencies until Tuesday (June\u00a09) to provide compensation benefits to healthcare workers who contracted coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).<\/p>\n

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said Duterte made this order after learning that healthcare workers who fell severely ill or died due to Covid-19 have yet to receive their compensation benefits as mandated by the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act or Republic Act (RA) 11469.<\/p>\n

\u201cHanggang Martes lang po ang binigay ng Presidente para sa lahat ng kinakaukulan na ibigay ang mga<\/em>\u00a0compensation benefits\u00a0sa mga<\/em>\u00a0health workers\u00a0na nagkasakit ng<\/em>\u00a0Covid-19 in the line of duty\u00a0at sa mga pamilyang naiwan ng mga namatay na<\/em>\u00a0health workers (The President is giving concerned agencies until Tuesday to provide compensation benefits to health workers who fell ill or died due to Covid-19 in the line of duty),\u201d he said in a virtual presser from Davao City on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Roque said Duterte was \u201cangered\u201d when it reached him that healthcare workers have yet to receive their compensation.<\/p>\n

\u201cGalit na galit ang Presidente. Hanggang<\/em>\u00a0Tuesday next week\u00a0kailangan maibigay po ang<\/em>\u00a0assistance\u00a0na \u2018yan dahil \u2018yan ay nasa batas<\/em>\u00a0(The President is very angry. He is giving until Tuesday to give the assistance because it is mandated by law),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Under the Bayanihan Law, public and private healthcare workers who become severely ill or died of Covid-19 in the line of duty are entitled to PHP100,000, while the families of those who succumb to the illness could get PHP1 million.<\/p>\n

Last Tuesday, senators lamented that none of the more than 30 healthcare workers who contracted Covid-19 received compensation packages.<\/p>\n

Senator Juan Edgardo Angara, citing the Department of Health (DOH), emphasized the absence of the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the law.<\/p>\n

The absence of the IRR should \u201cnot be an excuse\u201d to comply with the law, Senator Panfilo \u201cPing\u201d Lacson said.<\/p>\n

Senator Richard “Dick” Gordon agreed that the IRR is not needed, describing it as a \u201cno brainer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Senator Francis Pangilinan said the delay in the release of the IRR was \u201cunacceptable and unforgivable.”<\/p>\n

Senator Christopher Lawrence \u201cBong\u201d Go also lamented as “unacceptable” the delay in properly compensating the families of medical front-liners who have died in the government\u2019s fight against Covid-19.<\/p>\n

Aside from compensation, the Bayanihan Law also provides for a \u201cCovid-19 special risk allowance\u201d for public health workers on top of the hazard pay that they should receive under the Magna Carta for Public Health Workers Act.<\/p>\n

The law also mandates the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to shoulder all the medical expenses of public and private health workers if they contract Covid-19 or suffer injuries or other diseases during the national health emergency.<\/p>\n

Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire, in a separate virtual presser, said the guidelines on compensation benefits is expected on Thursday (June 4).<\/p>\n

She said Health Secretary Francisco Duque III has signed the joint administrative order (JAO) on the Bayanihan to Heal As One Act Section 4 implementation.<\/p>\n

Data from the DOH showed that a total of 2,669 healthcare workers have contracted Covid-19 as of June 1. Of the total cases, 1,438 or nearly 54 percent were able to recover. The death toll remained at 32.<\/p>\n

The total of Covid-19 cases involving health workers accounts for 15 percent of the nationwide tally.<\/p>\n

There are 19,748 confirmed Covid-19 cases in the Philippines, 974 deaths and 4,153 are recoveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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