Health workers are PH contribution to global Covid-19 fight

Health workers are PH contribution to global Covid-19 fight By Ferdinand Patinio COVID -19 News

MANILA – Overseas Filipino workers, particularly those in the medical and health sector, are the Philippines’ contribution to the global fight against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, an official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said Monday.

“Those who have worked abroad and continuing because of their previous contracts are now our contribution for care, healing and cure to the world affected by this Covid-19 pandemic,” said Bishop Ruperto Santos, vice chairman of the CBCP-Episcopal Commission on Migrants and Itinerant Peoples’ (ECMIP) in an interview. He said OFWs who have existing contracts should be allowed to work in their host countries. imposed on new health workers. “There should be temporary suspension for the new Filipino healthcare workers. We need them here, and there are jobs here,” he said. On Monday, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) has recommended the lifting of the temporary deployment ban on Filipino health workers with existing contracts abroad.