The law also requires the government to give P100,000 to health workers who would contract the coronavirus in the line of duty but survive. Sen. Richard Gordon, who had introduced the compensation provision, called the DOH failure “serious neglect.”As of Monday, 2,669 health workers had contracted the coronavirus. “The efforts and sacrifices made by our health-care [workers] need not be more emphasized. Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said he expected President Rodrigo Duterte to give officials a deadline to release the health workers’ benefits. As of Monday, health-care workers accounted for one in six coronavirus infections.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer June 03, 2020 21:30 UTC