By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com Main Story: On Health Workers Day, health workers reiterate demand for wage hike, a stop to privatization Other Story: Gov’t temporary employment program for nurses, exploitative MANILA – Life is getting more and more difficult nowadays and many Filipinos have been seeking work abroad. Health professionals for one opt…
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Gov’t temporary employment program for nurses ‘exploitative’
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com Main Story: On Health Workers Day, health workers reiterate demand for salary hike, stop to privatization Other Story: Finding fulfillment in serving the poor MANILA – The government has found a new way of creating jobs for unemployed nurses in the country. But for progressive health workers, this new…
Child rights advocates continue campaign for breastfeeding
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Breastmilk is and will always be best for babies. This is the message of the Association for the Rights of Children in Southeast Asia (ARCSEA) delivered in a recent milk letting activity in Manila as it appealed to the public and to all Filipino mothers with newborns…
As the public bidding draws near, opposition to sale of Welfareville intensifies
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Around 6,340 living-in patients, 56,000 out-patients, 1,713 health workers, and 20,000 residents will be affected by the planned sale of Welfareville, aside from the promotion of preventive mental health care, in the name of Public-Private Partnership projects.
Glaring statistics prove need for urgently passing RH Bill
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – The House of Representatives and the Senate is set to take a recess this week for the Holy Week break. Sessions will resume on May 7. There are speculations that if the impeachment process has been completed by then, the Congress will finally vote on the controversial…
Hire unemployed nurses in public hospitals -GWP
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Manila – A lawmaker and a labor center are protesting against the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) call to licensed nurses, nursing graduates, and other jobseekers with healthcare backgrounds to consider the array of non-clinical, yet, medical-related job opportunities as alternate careers in the healthcare industry. DOLE secretary…
More work, less pay for government health workers
By ANNE MARXZE UMIL Bulatlat.com Main Story: Aquino gov’t withdraws legally mandated benefits of health workers MANILA — John Paul Gubaton, 30, is the newly elected president of the employees union in the Jose Reyes Memorial Medical Center, a public hospital in Manila. An Administrative Aide 1, he is earning only P8,000 a month, a…
Aquino gov’t withdraws legally mandated benefits of health workers
By MARYA SALAMAT
By denying public health workers their legally-mandated benefits, the Aquino government has practically reduced their monthly take-home pay.
Gabriela to CBCP: Do not bear false witness against women’s health
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
We continue to say, ‘yes’ to a comprehensive and pro-poor reproductive health bill and ‘no’ to population control.” – GWP Rep. Emmi de Jesus
‘Increase’ in health budget deceiving – Alliance of Health Workers
By INA ALLECO SILVERIO
“Under the Aquino administration, public health services are no longer free but they come for a fee.” – Alliance of Health Workers
OFWs slam planned 150% hike in Philhealth premiums
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — Overseas Filipino workers and their families are up against what they say is yet another ploy to milk them for money: a whopping 150 percent increase in health insurance premiums. Migrante International and its chapters in Hong Kong and the Middle East have issued declarations against the…