Declaring a “Black Heart’s Day,” public sector workers trooped to Mendiola leading to Malacanang Palace in Manila to denounce Pres. Benigno Aquino III and Budget Sec. Florencio Abad for the Salary Standardization Law 4 (SSL 4) discriminating pay and benefits for the country’s 1.5 million government workers. Similar actions were held in Baguio, Angeles, Naga, Legazpi, Cebu, Iloilo, Davao and other cities in the Philippines.
Alliance of Health Workers members from government hospitals held a candle-lighting activity today to show their solidarity with indigenous peoples in Mindanao. They denounced the human rights violations against the Lumad by the military that resulted in massacres, rape, harassments and forced evacuation in Bukidnon, Surigao del Sur, Agusan del Sur and the Davao provinces.
Philippine Heart Center, Quezon City
September 26, 2015
Nagpiket ang mga manggagawang pangkalusugan sa harap ng Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP) para ihayag ang mariing pagtutol sa planong pagtatayo ng kalsada sa loob mismo ng LCP. Ayon kay Eleazar Sobinsky, pangulo ng Lung Center of the Philippines Employees Association – Alliance of Health Workers (LCPEA-AHW), “Hindi makatuwiran na maglagay pa ng kalsada sa loob mismo ng compound ng hospital dahil napapaligiran na kami ng maraming kalsada. Ang usok na lilikhain ng mga sasakyan na dadaan sa loob ng compound ay tiyak na makasasama sa kalusugan ng mga pasyenteng may sakit sa baga na nagpapagamot sa LCP.”
Ang planong pagtatayo ng kalsada ay inaprubahan daw ng Pangulong Noynoy Aquino sa ilalim ng Quezon City Central Business District Road Network Plan at ipatutupad bago pa umalis sa pwesto ang pangulo.
Nanawagan naman ang Alliance of Health Workers sa mga pamilyang dumadalaw sa ospital na sumama sa “SONA ng bayan” kasabay ng huling SONA ng pangulo sa July 27 para samasamang isigaw ang kapabayaan sa programang pangkalusugan ng gobyernong Aquino.
Lung Center of the Philippines
July 24, 2015
Philippine Orthopedic Center, Quezon City
March 13, 2015
Hundreds of health workers, patients and their families today converge at the hospital’s drive way and with clenched fists, chant “Save POC” and “Junk PPP/Privatization” and “On site developement with public funds”.
“Let us send our strong message to Sec. Garin and Malacanang that privatizing POC will be the death of a public hospital specializing in bone deseases. It would mean the deprivation of around 500 outpatient poor people who patiently line up as early as 4 am until 5 pm everday to be treated. Also the 80-90% poor patients who are hospitalized for one month to more than 10 years and who rely only to the hospital’s equipments and expertise in order to live,” says Mr. Sean Velchez, president of National Orthopedic Health Workers Union-Alliance of Health Workers.
The members of Alliance of Health Workers (AHW) and Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) held a protest to denounce the four year Aquino administration for not giving them any single salary increase amidst endless price increases of basic commodities and services.
Mendiola, Manila
November 27, 2014