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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, September 5) — The Department of Health says it has distributed a total of ₱14.3-billion worth of benefits to healthcare workers in various healthcare facilities as of Sept. 3.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said in a statement to media on Sunday the benefits covered the periods Sept. 15 to Dec. 19, 2020 (Period 1), and Dec. 20, 2020 to June 30, 2021 (Period 2).
For Period 1, ₱6.4 billion was disbursed for active hazard duty pay of 384,159 healthcare personnel and special risk allowance for 306,314 health workers, the statement said.
Additionally, ₱990.9 million was allotted for the meals, accommodation, and transportation allowances of 103,096 healthcare workers, the DOH said.
For Period 2, the DOH said ₱6.9 billion worth of SRA was released for 379,117 health workers. Further, ₱16 million worth of life insurance was released to 32,281 healthcare personnel.
₱570 million was also to disbursed 24,034 medical frontliners as COVID-19 sickness and death compensation.
The said benefits, the DOH said, cover healthcare personnel from private and public hospitals who are attending to COVID-19 patients.
“Within the DOH family includes 72 hospitals with more than ten thousand medical frontliners. They, like many others, put their lives at-risk every day in order to serve patients from all over the country and from all walks of life,” Duque said in the statement.
“The DOH through its Centers for Health Development enters into a Memorandum of Understanding with health facilities to legally disburse these benefits,” said DOH. “The health facilities are then responsible for disbursing these to the employees and submitting a liquidation report thereafter.”
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