MANILA—The Department of Health on Wednesday said it has been getting a lot of volunteers for the country’s COVID-19 response program, except for some professions.
MANILA—The Department of Health on Wednesday said it has been getting a lot of volunteers for the country’s COVID-19 response program, except for some professions. “Maraming gustong mag-volunteer,” Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said during a virtual media briefing.
She said more than 3,000 individuals have already signed up since the DOH started its emergency hiring, but some job vacancies are hard to fill. “Merong specific na professions na mahirap hagilapin, katulad ng ating mga doktor. Hindi ganu’n kadami ang ating volunteers,” she said. Vergeire said molecular biologists and medical technologists are also not that common in the Philippines. “Iyan ang medyo kailangan natin makipag-usap sa iba’t ibang universities para mag-partner with them at para pahiramin tayo,” she said. In March, several health workers’ groups and doctors questioned the DOH’s allocation of P500 daily allowance for volunteers. But the department later explained that it was based on their standard rate for volunteers and that it was working on finding additional compensation. The DOH earlier said that it needs 15,000 health workers. But Vergeire said that is just based on estimates in case COVID-19 cases surge in the country. Vergeire said the department is also hiring people for laboratories and for encoding of test results. Testing backlogs have been attributed to delays in encoding those results.
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