An ordinance granting daily allowance to volunteer health workers in vaccination sites has just been approved by Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte.
The city mayor signed a measure granting volunteers a daily allowance of up to P2,500, to provide proper compensation to medical professionals who would help augment Quezon City’s medical workforce and inoculate the residents.
Starting June 1, anyone who would sign up as a volunteer would be remunerated per day based on the following categories: P2,500 for medical doctors, P1,400 for dentists and nurses, P1,300 for post-graduate interns, P1,000 for other allied medical professionals, and P800 for midwives.
“It is only right and just that we give them a daily allowance so they won’t be spending their personal funds for transportation and food, for example,” she said.
“This could be a big help for their services, especially we lack medical staff, such as doctors and nurses who are qualified to vaccinate,” she added.
Under Ordinance No. SP-3024 or An Ordinance Granting Daily Allowance to the COVID-19 Vaccination Volunteer Medical Staff, the city government would pay for food, transportation and other necessities of the volunteer medical staff serving at any of the city’s COVID-19 vaccination sites.
Starting June 1, anyone who would sign up as a volunteer would be remunerated per day based on the following categories: P2,500 for medical doctors, P1,400 for dentists and nurses, P1,300 for post-graduate interns, P1,000 for other allied medical professionals, and P800 for midwives.