MANILA, Philippines — As the nation observes May 7 as health workers’ day, a group of medical frontliners criticized the government for allegedly not paying enough attention to their appeals.
The Alliance of Health Workers (AHW) has lamented how doctors and nurses and other staff in the medical field are being praised as heroes in this time of the COVID-19 pandemic but whose pleas for better working conditions, among others, are allegedly not being heard by the government.
According to AHW, medical practitioners and health center staffers are suffering from a myriad of problems such as low wages, unpaid benefits, and inadequate protection.
“We, health workers, are being ca…
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