CEBU CITY – Dozens of medical frontliners from Regions 7 and 8 in the Visayas were deployed to Manila to help combat the surge of the deadly Covid-19 disease in the National Capital Region (NCR) and nearby provinces.
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| Presidential Assistant for the Visayas, Secretary Michael Lloyd Dino (4th from left), Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia (3rd from left) and Mayor Edgardo Labella (5th from left) lead other officials in sending off 50 medical front-liners to the National Capital Region (NCR) at a ceremony in Cebu City on April 7. The volunteer healthcare workers will help the NCR manage a surge in Covid-19 cases for three months. (PNA photo by John Rey Saavedra) |
Presidential Assistant for the Visayas, Michael Lloyd Dino, commended the first batch of 66 volunteers who answered the call to augment medical workers who have been fighting Covid-19 for a year now. Among those who volunteered were 11 doctors, 35 nurses and four medical technologists from the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center and others hired by the Department of Health (DOH) in Region 7, including one doctor and 15 nurses from Region 8.
The nurses will be stationed at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute, Lung Center of the Philippines, San Lazaro Hospital, Tondo Medical Center and Rizal Medical Center.
He said the volunteers will work under a contract of service arrangement for three continuous months. Nurses will receive P33,575 a month while doctors will each get P60,901 a month. Other benefits, such as additional 20% premium of the basic salary, round trip travel expenses which would be shouldered by DOH-Regional Center for Health Development and PhilHealth premium contribution will also be given to the volunteers.
Dino said the volunteer will also get additional P5,000 each. And Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia said each volunteer will also receive additional P5,000 as monthly incentive along with vitamins and air purifier. She also promised to give them P10,000 each upon their return.
The Cebu City government will also give P10,000 per volunteer as their allowance, on top of the basic pay, according to Councilor Raymund Garcia.
All 50 volunteers from Cebu have received their first dose of Covid-19 vaccine and will get their second dose in NCR. (John Rey Saavedra)
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