Senator Bong Go filed on Tuesday Senate Bill 2398 to keep providing allowances and benefits to healthcare workers during the existence of the state of public health emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“As the coronavirus continuously spreads around the world and the number of infections and deaths proliferate, we see emerging healthcare workers on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic response, selflessly take lifesaving work against the virus,” the chair of the Senate health committee said in the explanatory note.
“Millions of medical frontliners have faced the challenge of providing care for patients with Covid-19, while often ill-equipped and poorly prepared, risking their own lives to save the lives of others,” he lamented.
Go added that frontliners “are the most essential aspect of the country’s pandemic response.”
SBN 2398, also known as the “Allowances and Benefits for Healthcare Workers Act of 2021”, provides benefits and allowances to all healthcare workers who are engaged in health and health-related work in health facilities during the state of public health emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Healthcare workers include medical, allied health professional, administrative and support personnel, employed regardless of their employment status.
Under the bill, a fixed monthly Covid-19 special risk allowance for every month that they are serving during the state of national emergency will be provided to them. The allowance is on top of the hazard pay granted under Republic Act 7305 or the “Magna Carta of Public Health Workers”.
The measure also provides Active Hazard Duty Pay exclusively for public health workers for every month that they are serving during the national emergency. Likewise, this is in addition to the hazard pay granted under RA 7305.
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