MANILA, Philippines — Senator Risa Hontiveros urged the government Tuesday to invest in more competent salaries and benefits for health workers to encourage them to work locally.
Hontiveros made the call as she welcomed President Rodrigo Duterte’s lifting of the controversial deployment ban on medical employees. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello earlier said that the President onlyallowed 5,000 health workers a year to leave the country.
“In order to strengthen our country’s response against COVID-19 and encourage our health workers to work locally, the government must invest and allot its resources to provide a more competent salary and benefits package to ensure tha…
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