COVID-19 News
Health workers are PH contribution to global Covid-19 fight By Ferdinand Patinio
MANILA – Overseas Filipino workers, particularly those in the medical and health sector, are the Philippines’ contribution to the global fight against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, an official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said Monday. “Those who have worked abroad and continuing because of their previous contracts are now our contribution for care, healing and cure to the world affected by this Covid-19 pandemic,” said Bishop Ruperto Santos, vice chairman of the CBCP-Episcopal Commission on Migrants and Itinerant Peoples’ (ECMIP) in an interview.
imposed on new health workers.
“There should be temporary suspension for the new Filipino healthcare workers. We need them here, and there are jobs here,” he said. On Monday, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) has recommended the lifting of the He said OFWs who have existing temporary deployment ban on Filipino contracts should be allowed to work in health workers with existing contracts their host countries. abroad. Santos added that the temporary After their meeting Monday night, deployment suspension should be President Rodrigo Duterte has acceded APRIL 11-17, 2020 |
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