NEWS UPDATE: After citing SMNI host Jeffrey Celiz in contempt, the House legislative franchise panel has also cited fellow anchor and former NTF-ELCAC spokesperson Lorraine Badoy in contempt. Both are ordered detained in the House. | via @chicristina_
.@ahwphils: Our opposition to Secretary @Teddybird's appointment is based on several claims that we believe undermine the interests and welfare of health workers and the general public. @MalayaNews
Sectoral leaders and former Makabayan Bloc lawmakers pay a courtesy call with House Speaker Martin Romualdez to relay their call to realign P2.95 billion in confidential and intelligence funds in the proposed 2024 budget to health, education, agriculture and social services.
LOOK: In time for the deliberation of the proposed DOH budget through the Committee on Health, health workers and groups troop to the House of Representatives to denounce the decrease in the health budget on Wednesday, Sept. 6.
They demand the legislators to increase the budget for health, fund the health workers' salary increase, and double the total proposed budget of the 68 DOH tertiary and specialty hospitals including the Philippine General Hospital.
📷: Mark Balmores | MB
In time of PBBM's 2nd SONA, public and private health workers urgently demand from the Marcos Jr administration a timely salary increase. #Fight33kEntrySalary#SahodItaas#PresyoIbaba
'Di maikakailang may mga problema pa rin na kailangang tugunan sa sektor ng kalusugan sa gitna ng banta ng COVID-19.
Kung paano ito tinutugunan ng administrasyong Marcos sa special report ni si @kaithreencruz.
PANOORIN: Health workers ng Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM), nagsagawa ng kilos protesta para sa dagdag sweldo at pagkontra sa pag abolish sa RITM. | via @robertmanodzmm
Nagprotesta ngayong Miyerkoles ang mga grupo ng health worker sa harap ng tanggapan ng DOH sa Sta.Cruz, Maynila para ilahad ang kanilang kalbaryo dahil sa hindi pa rin natatanggap na #COVID19 allowance at iba pang benepisyo sa gitna ng pandemya. | @RayaCapulong#SemanaSanta2023
Iba't ibang grupo ng health workers, nagkasa ng 'Black Hearts Day Protest' sa harap ng tanggapan ng Department of Health sa Sta. Cruz, Maynila para ipanawagan ang hindi pa rin natatanggap na #COVID19 allowance at iba pang benepisyo sa gitna ng pandemya. | via @RayaCapulong
LOOK: Members of the Alliance of Health Workers troop to the Professional Regulations Commission office in Pasay city to file complaints and seek the revocation of the certificate of registration as physician of NTF-ELCAC spokesperson Lorraine Badoy for red-tagging them
Alliance of Health Workers troop to the office of the Ombudsman to file complaints against NTFL-ELCAC spokesperson and PCOO Usec. Lorraine Badoy for red-tagging their leaders
On Heart's Day, health workers coming from public and private hospitals are set to hold a "Black Hearts' Day Protest" tomorrow to condemn the DOH and Duterte administration's continued and outright negligence to their safety, protection, rights and welfare.