Quoting a study done by the Philippine Nurses Association in 2017, Abenojar said there are 31,396 nurses working in 800 public hospitals, 35,365 in 1,172 private hospitals, and 23,547 in community health centers.
The WHO recommends that there should at least be 45 health workers for every 10,000 persons. But in the Philippines, the ratio is at only 19 per 10,000. “Health workers have been unhealthy and uncared for despite [sometimes] enduring 16 hours of duty. We have seen a historical increase in the number of contractual health workers receiving floor wages without security of tenure, few or absent benefits but with huge workloads,” Mendoza said.
Recently, several lawmakers raised concerns over cuts made in the DOH’s and Philippine General Hospital’s 2020 budget amid a surge of infectious diseases and a health care program that is still unproven.Although administration lawmakers promised to restore the budget cuts, the All UP Workers Union-Mania argued a 2020 budget without cuts would still be way off the P10 billion it needs to “render quality health care for all its patients.
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