FORT MAGSAYSAY, PALAYAN CITY—At least 40 employees left the Drug Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation Center (DATRC) inside this military reservation, partly due to delayed wages, a top health official said on Thursday. “Some left because of salaries that were not released on time,” Dr. Nelson Dancel, DATRC chief, told the Inquirer in a phone interview. The lack of employees, though, would not have an impact on the rehabilitation of at least 900 drug addicts who have come to be known as the center’s “residents,” Dancel said. Insiders, who asked not to be named, said many of those who left were psychometricians who oversaw programs to reform drug dependents. Three nurses recently resigned because salaries were given two months late, while a top-performing employee left for a job at a Baguio university, sources said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 23, 2018 21:00 UTC