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Senate to DOH: Release health workers' COVID-19 allowance immediately

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Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/life/05/28/20200528-frontliners-flag-day-aa-9513.jpg"/><figcaption>Medical frontliners wave Philippine flags during their break at Santa Ana Hospital in Manila to commemorate National Flag Day on May 28, 2020. <em>ABS-CBN News/File</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA - Senators have directed the Department of Health (DOH) to immediately release special allowances for health workers battling COVID-19, noting that it has been 6 months since the incentive was promised to medical frontliners.</p><p>A report sent to the Senate confirmed that the DOH has recently submitted to the Department of Budget and Management the cost estimates for the the Special Risk Allowance, a benefit promised to medical frontliners in April, according to a Senate document.</p><p>&quot;What is the cause of this delay?&quot; senators said in its comments on the executive branch&#x27;s first report on the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act.</p><p>&quot;The problem with the distribution of the Special Risk Allowance for health workers has been a persistent issue and a recurring complaint of health care professionals,&quot; according to the Senate document sent to the Office of the Executive Secretary on October 21.</p><p>The chamber - which has oversight authority over the implementation of Bayanihan 2 - has also directed the DOH to submit a &quot;list of healthcare workers who received such benefits as well as healthcare workers who have yet to receive the benefit.&quot;</p><p>&quot;To ensure the same issue in the delay of receipt of benefits will not be repeated, the Senate would like to secure a report on the implementation&quot; of the Special Risk Allowance for medical workers manning the frontlines against COVID-19, it said.</p><p>In April, President Rodrigo Duterte issued an administrative order to give COVID-19 medical workers an additional allowance on top of their hazard pay.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/06/20/public-health-frontliners-get-extra-risk-pay-under-duterte-order">Public health frontliners get extra risk pay under Duterte order</a></li></ul><p>In August, the DOH committed to include more incentives for doctors, nurses, and other medical frontliners under the Bayanihan 2.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/14/20/doh-bayanihan-2-to-include-more-incentives-for-health-workers">DOH: Bayanihan 2 to include more incentives for health workers</a></li></ul><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7mh5raJMl6k?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>Senators have directed the Department of Health (DOH) to "immediately" release special allowances for health workers battling COVID-19, noting that it has been 6 months since the incentive was promised to medical frontliners.</p>

Senators have directed the Department of Health (DOH) to "immediately" release special allowances for health workers battling COVID-19, noting that it has been 6 months since the incentive was promised to medical frontliners.

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Senate to DOH: Release health workers' COVID-19 allowance immediately

Katrina Domingo,

ABS-CBN News

Published October 23, 2020 01:47 PM PHT

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