MANILA, Philippines — The P9 billion fund for the new tranche of special risk allowance for health workers at the frontlines against COVID-19 has been released to regional offices of the Department of Health (DOH), Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said Tuesday.
Vergeire said the DOH released the funds on the same day that the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) issued the Special Allotment Release Order (SARO) for the same amount last week.
“On that same day, ‘yung perang binigay sa atin ng DBM ay ibinaba na natin sa ating mga regional offices at hospital agad agad,” she told an online press briefing.
(On that same day, the money provided to us by the DBM…
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