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The Office of Vice President Leni Robredo has launched a free shuttle service for health workers and frontliners in Cebu in a bid to alleviate the plight of Cebuanos amid the rising cases of COVID-19 the province.

A group of health workers called on Health Secretary Francisco Duque III to resign Saturday (June 27) due to his alleged lack of a concrete plan to address the COVID-19 crisis.

A possible class suit may loom against Health Secretary Francisco Duque III over failure to provide benefits under the Bayanihan 1 Act to health workers who got sick due to COVID-19.

President Rodrigo Duterte directed Health Secretary Francisco Duque III to form a team that would deal with the distribution of compensation to families of health workers who have died of or infected with the coronavirus disease.

President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to fire officials who failed to provide assistance to health workers who fell sick or died of coronavirus.

President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered authorities until Tuesday to compensate the health workers who died due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19).

Malacañang agrees that compensation should be paid immediately to families of health workers who died from coronavirus (Covid-19).

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The government will ease the ban on the overseas deployment of health care workers once the coronavirus (Covid-19) situation in their country of destination improves, according to Malacañang.

Quezon City Rep. Precious Castelo is urging the Department of Health (DOH) to require all hospitals and other healthcare facilities to subject their frontline workers to weekly Covid-19 testing.

President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the police to arrest those discriminating against medical frontliners in the fight against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19).

Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman has refuted Foreign Affairs Sec. Teddy Boy Locsin’s claim that the temporary ban on the deployment of Filipino health workers abroad is unconstitutional amid the country’s health crisis due to the coronavirus…

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro “Teddyboy” Locsin Jr. is livid over the decision of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) to ban the deployment of healthcare workers overseas due to the coronavirus disease 2019…

Lawyers from the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Law have offered to defend people who experienced coronavirus-related discrimination, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said.

The government will protect health workers from discrimination, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra assured on Saturday (April 4).

The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Visayas has denounced persons who have been calling tha ban of nurses and doctors from subdivisions due to fears of the 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19).

The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) has offered to provide legal assistance to both health workers and 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) patients who underwent discrimination.

President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday condemned the discrimination against health workers who are at the frontlines in the fight against the coronavirus.

The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) condemned on Wednesday the reported incidents of violence against health workers serving in the frontlines of the battle against the novel coronavirus.

Dr. Bryan Lim, an infectious disease specialist, couldn't help himself but practically beg for immediate funding for health workers who were being insulted by the Department of Health with its offer of a pittance for compensation while…

The Department of Health (DOH) has apologized for offering P500 as the daily compensation for doctors and other health workers who will volunteer to work at hospitals handling coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases.