More than 55,000 health care workers are set to receive the DOHgovph's long overdue COVID19PH financial benefits.
said that 55,211 eligible health care workers would benefit from the payment of the special risk allowances , the monthly allowance of not more than P5,000 to health workers who took care or had “direct contact” with COVID-19 patients during the first two years of the pandemic, from September 15, 2020, to June 30, 2021.
Currently, the DOH still has a pending request for P11.5 billion unpaid Health Emergency Allowance for 1,617,660 eligible claimants from January to June of this year. “Because of this law for HEA, we have to pay them retroactively from June 2021 to December 2021. But we don’t have funds for it,” said Vergeire, with around P64 billion needed for the payment of HEA to eligible health care workers.
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