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Reports of underpaid health workers won't be taken lightly: Vergeire

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Angela Coloma 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/11/20/20201120-medical-workers-rally.jpg"/><figcaption>Delayed payments and other grievances prompted some medical front line personnel to take their issues to the streets. <em>ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA - Reports of underpaid health workers &quot;will not be taken lightly,&quot; an official of the Department of Health said as they started investigating such complaint.</p><p>This, as Sorsogon Gov. Francis &quot;Chiz&quot; Escudero recently bared that health workers in the province were unpaid amid the pandemic.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/f3Jplu-zxMc?enablejsapi=1"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar"><em>Video courtesy of PTV</em></div><p>In a public press briefing, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said they have already ordered the regional director to investigate the cause of delay.</p><p>&quot;Ayaw namin na nagkakaroon ng disadvantaged situations ang aming health care workers (We don&#x27;t want our health care workers at a disadvantage) at this time of the pandemic because we know that they are working hard and that they deserve their salary,&quot; Vergeire said.</p><p>Escudero, a former senator, took to Twitter on Thursday saying only two of the 11 nurses sent by the DOH to augment their COVID-19 response &quot;only got a salary for two&quot; of the 5 months they worked.</p><p>The remaining 9 &quot;didn’t get any salary after working for over a month,” he added, saying only one nurse is left working in their province.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/11/20/20/doh-investigates-escudero-complaint-on-unpaid-sorsogon-nurses">DOH investigates Escudero’s complaint on unpaid Sorsogon nurses</a></li></ul><p>Medical frontliners have also taken to the streets to decry the delay in salaries.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/video/news/11/21/20/ph-medical-workers-take-to-streets-due-to-delayed-payments-grievances">PH medical workers take to streets due to delayed payments, grievances</a></li></ul>

<p>Reports of underpaid health workers "will not be taken lightly," an official of the Department of Health said as they started investigating such instances.</p>

Reports of underpaid health workers "will not be taken lightly," an official of the Department of Health said as they started investigating such instances.