By Roy Barbosa – Sep 1, 2021, Manilatoday.net The health workers’ 10-day deadline for Department of Health (DOH) to release COVID-19 benefits has ran out, and so did their patience. “Ang isang paa namin ay nasa hukay na. Hindi namin alam, baka bukas makalawa, uuwi kami sa bahay naming abo nalang na hindi na kami…
Aug 24, 2021, Bonz Magsambol MANILA, Philippines ‘We strongly demand more actions than words,’ says Alliance of Health Workers President Robert Mendoza A health workers group on Tuesday, August 24, gave the Department of Health (DOH) until August 31 to release the withheld COVID-19 benefits due medical frontliners. “We strongly demand more actions than words….
Feb 3, 2021, Reuters Yangon, Myanmar (UPDATED) ‘We refuse to obey any order from the illegitimate military regime who demonstrated they do not have any regards for our poor patients,’ says the protest group Staff at 70 hospitals and medical departments in 30 towns across Myanmar stopped work on Wednesday, February 3, to protest against…