{"id":268313,"date":"2020-09-10T20:47:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T00:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=268313"},"modified":"2020-09-10T20:47:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T00:47:40","slug":"makati-hiring-medical-professionals-to-boost-fight-vs-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/10\/makati-hiring-medical-professionals-to-boost-fight-vs-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Makati hiring medical professionals to boost fight vs. Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_268314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-268314\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/makati-city-hall-facade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-268314\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/makati-city-hall-facade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/makati-city-hall-facade.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/makati-city-hall-facade-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-268314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Binay said the local government is hiring physicians, nurses, medical technologists, midwives, and nursing attendants. (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 To boost its efforts to curb the local transmission of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), Makati City Mayor Abigail Binay on Thursday said they are hiring medical professionals and other healthcare workers.<\/p>\n<p>Binay said the local government is hiring physicians, nurses, medical technologists, midwives, and nursing attendants.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from monthly basic salaries, she said the hired applicants will receive a personnel economic relief allowance amounting to PHP2,000, Magna Carta of public health workers&#8217; hazard pay amounting to PHP8,507 or Covid 19 hazard pay\/subsistence allowance (during enhanced community quarantine) amounting to PHP1,100 and laundry allowance of PHP150.<\/p>\n<p>Healthcare workers may also receive annual benefits from the local government including mid-year and year-end bonuses, cash gifts, incentive pay, productivity enhancement pay, additional benefits, clothing allowance as well as service recognition incentives.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants are required to submit a letter of intent addressed to Binay thru Dr. Bernard Sese, officer-in-charge of the Makati Health Department (MHD), with attached documents including resume, authenticated PRC ID\/board rating, authenticated Transcript of Records, and diploma.<\/p>\n<p>Interested healthcare professionals are urged to send their applications through email via mhd_main@yahoo.com, along with the requirements needed.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the city government urged residents to avail of the virtual health care services from medical doctors of the Ospital ng Makati (OsMak).<\/p>\n<p>Th OsMak e-Consult program (telemedicine consultation) is an online medical consultation with the healthcare professionals, which is part of its commitment to strengthening the &#8220;Alagang Makatizen&#8221; program amid the health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The OsMak e-Consult initiative involves the use of digital equipment and other electronic gadgets for the purpose of diagnosis, treatment, management, education, and follow-up care &#8220;(when) the face-to-face medical consultation is not possible&#8221; during the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 To boost its efforts to curb the local transmission of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), Makati City Mayor Abigail &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":268314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-lade-jean-kabagani","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268313","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=268313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268315,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268313\/revisions\/268315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}