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Health Workers storm Malacañang over budget cuts and lack of salary increases

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Nag-protesta ang mga manggagawang pangkalusugan, nurse at doktor sa Mendiola sa Maynila para tutulan ang malaking budget cut at manawagan ng dagdag sahod noong Oktubre 15. Binatikos nila ang P10 bilyon na budget cut sa sektor para sa 2020.

Ayon sa Alliance of Health Workers, tuluyan nang tinalikuran ng gobyerno ang obligasyon nito na bigyan ng maayos at abot-kayang serbisyong medikal ang taumbayan. Taun-taon ay binabawasan ang budget sa mga serbisyo habang pinalalaki ang budget sa pambansang depensa at pork barrel ng mga kongresista.

Nanawagan din sila na taasan ang sahod ng mga manggagawang pangkalusugan sa P16,000 sa minimum kada buwan, P30,000 para sa mga nurse at P80,000 para sa mga doktor. (Background music: News background / Bidyo ni Joseph Cuevas-Kodao)

Incoming DSWD secretary joins Barikadang Bayan at Fabella Hospital

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Incoming Department of Social Work and Development secretary Judy Taguiwalo spoke at the Barikadang Bayan opposing the closure of Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital today.

Taguiwalo said people should continue supporting the campaign to save the hospital as it serves poor women.

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Health workers vow to block Fabella’s closure

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Health workers and urban poor residents protested at the gates of the Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in downtown Manila today to denounce its impending closure by the Benigno Aquino government on June 9.

Alliance of Health Workers (AHW) members said that as many as 2,000 patients per day, including hundreds of mostly poor birthing mothers, will lose free medical services offered by the 700-bed hospital when it closes. Read more

Health workers decry low wages, privatization of public hospitals under Aquino

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Rank and file public health workers protested in front of the National Kidney and Transplant Institute last March 23 to condemn the Benigno Aquino government for its “anti-poor” policies in the health sector.

Members of the Alliance of Health Workers (AHW) said Aquino’s Salary Standardization program only aims to keep ordinary health workers poor through a measly and staggered wage increase.

They also condemned the “unabated” privatization of public hospitals and the services these institutions offer to the poor.

They said President Aquino has betrayed the interests of poor patients by worsening the state of health institutions in his more than five years in office.

AHW is pressing for a monthly national minimum wage of PhP16,000 for Salary Grade 1 workers and substantial budget increase for public health.