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Friday, March 29, 2024

Solon eyes perks for rural doctors

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A congressman has filed a bill seeking to provide incentives to rural doctors to encourage the provision of basic health services in the countryside.

“Aside from health workers, the government has rural health doctors to ensure that basic health services are being delivered to our people especially in the rural areas. But being government employees, our rural health doctors receive salaries far lower than their other contemporaries in the private sector,” said Cavite 2nd District Rep. Strike Revilla.

Cavite 2nd District Rep. Strike Revilla

Revilla said there was a need for a law giving incentives to rural health unit doctors who provide vital health services to the people to promote their rights and welfare and enhance their sense of work and dignity.

House Bill 1669 proposed that rural unit health doctors receive hazard allowance, subsistence or food allowance and scholarships, on top of the incentives and benefits already granted to them under existing laws.

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