Help us Mayor Beng

COVID CONTACT tracers hired by the national government have sought the help of Mayor Beng Climaco in appealing for the release of their meager salaries despite the grave risk they undergo in doing their jobs.

Climaco has personally requested the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to expedite the release of salaries of hundreds of contact tracers deployed in Zamboanga City. 

Ginagene Uy, the DILG City Director, explained that the delay in the submission of administrative requirements such as the tax identification number and the ATM account numbers from the Land Bank of the Philippines and some discrepancies in the daily time record and accomplishment reports by the contact tracers. 

The mayor said she spoke with Paisal Abutazil, the DILG regional director, and told him the concerns of contact tracers. Climaco said she was told that the DILG is now processing the salaries of contact tracers, not only those assigned here, but in the entire Zamboanga Peninsula. 

“Director Abutazil sought for understanding because they have to process over 3,000 documents (for the salaries),” Climaco said, adding, in Zamboanga City alone, the DILG hired only 656 contact tracers to help the local government track down people who have contacts with Covid-19 patients or those positive for the deadly respiratory virus. 

Climaco has repeatedly expressed her gratitude to the contact tracers and commended them for their dedication in helping the City Health Office. (Zamboanga Post)

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