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More than 75,000 US health care workers begin 3-day strike

Tens of thousands of health care workers in the United States walked off the job Wednesday, beginning one of the sector's largest strikes in...

Gov’t to reverse medical ‘brain drain’—Herbosa

Newly appointed Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa said he would make it his priority to address the brain drain in the medical profession by making...

Envoy denies report Germany, UK ‘pirating’ Filipino nursing students

German Ambassador to the Philippines Anke Reiffenstuel on Tuesday denied reports that the European countries were pirating Filipino nursing students to address the region’s...

DBM will look for funds for COVID workers

The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) on Thursday promised to look for new funding sources for the disbursement of benefits and allowances for...

Salceda urges Labor, Migrant depts to lift ban on OFW

Albay Rep. Joey Sarte Salceda on Tuesday appealed to incoming Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma and Migrant Workers Secretary Susan Ople to lift deployment bans...

Lawmaker urges release of benefits for 120K health care workers

Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Raymund Villafuerte on Wednesday appealed for the release  of sickness and death benefits due to more than 126,000 health care...

HCWs’ benefits now mandatory

Duterte signs law granting frontliners better pay plan President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a measure granting the mandatory continuing benefits to public and...

Angara says health workers assured of aid

Health care workers (HCWs) are now assured of receiving their COVID-19 benefits and allowances as long as the state of national public health emergency...

More benefits given to HCWs —Health dept.

More benefits have been released for health care workers, the Department of Health said Tuesday, as the House of Representatives Committee on Health, chaired...

2 hospitals cut admissions as infections rise

Two Manila hospitals are temporarily limiting patient admissions due to rising COVID-19 infections, including among its health care workers. In an advisory, the Justice Jose...

Give more benefits to frontliners—solon

A congressional leader has pushed for the enactment of a bill that provides additional allowances and benefits for health care workers during the coronavirus...

Biz group: Lift cap on PH nurses bound to Germany

The German-Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GPCCI) has renewed calls to reconsider the deployment cap on Filipino health care workers (HCW) to Germany.  “The...

Frontliners can pick booster brand

Fully vaccinated health care workers can choose the COVID-19 vaccine brands—Sinovac, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Moderna—as their booster shot, the Department of Health (DOH) said...

Thousands of US hospital workers vote to strike

Thousands of health care workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities in US states Oregon and California gave a green light Monday to call a strike...
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