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“ Ito ay nakakabahala dahil hinahanap natin ang quality service na healthcare na binibigay ng health worker. They do add, but a lot of these health workers are contractual workers),” Mendoza says.Ĭontractualization does not only create a burden for the financial situation of health workers, but ultimately affects the quality of care they give to the patient. “ Ang gobyerno, kunwari naglalagay ng mga health worker s, pero ang karamihan diyan is contractuals (The government pretends to add health workers. In 2014, the Department of Health recorded an average of only 3.5 doctors for every 10,000 Filipinos, whereas the ideal ratio should be one to 1.5 doctors for every 1,000 people.Īccording to Mendoza, plantilla or permanent positions for all types of health workers in hospitals remain vacant despite claims made by the government to the contrary. Contractualization of health workersĪnother problem that government-run health centers all over the Philippines face is the understaffing of health worker positions in government hospitals. Instead, he has advocated for the immediate increase to Php 25,000 for entry-level nurses, which was rejected by former President Benigno S. Mendoza sees this scheme as disadvantageous to lower-level government employees, especially lower-level health workers. Meanwhile, a Nurse 1 who belongs to salary grade 11 will receive compensation of Php 20,754 from Php 18,549 at the end of the four year standardization period. However, Robert Mendoza, president of the Alliance of Health Workers, has decried this law because of the difference in the increase of wages in lower salary grade levels compared to higher salary grades.Īccording to the law, the president of the Philippines, who belongs to the highest salary grade, will receive an increase of Php 388,096 from the current salary of Php 120,000. To remedy this, the government passed the Salary Standardization Law of 2015, which increases the wages of government employees over four years.
John Wong, MSc, lecturer at the Ateneo’s Health Sciences Program. “Although they still live better lives than other professions, they’re still at the bottom of the pyramid in terms of income and social status,” says Dr. Even at this amount, nurses are still not properly compensated.ĭoctors who work at government hospitals and rural health units in municipalities are not better off as well, as they earn a fixed salary no matter how many patients they see in a day. In national government-run hospitals and first class cities where Mark and Debbie work, nurses with a permanent position are paid Php 18,549 at entry-level. For others, receiving inadequate wages is one of the difficulties that make it untenable for health workers to remain here. While tens of thousands of nursing professionals pursue careers abroad, Mark and Debbie have managed to remain in the Philippines. Kasi hindi talaga ganun kalaki ang kikitain mo dito sa atin (This really will not happen, even if you are very hardworking, even if you work two jobs, or three jobs, it is impossible, because what you earn here is not really that much),” says Debbie. “ Hindi talaga ‘yun mangyayari kahit nga sobrang sipag mo pa, kahit mag-double job ka, triple job, imposible.
Just like Mark, Debbie believes that her status in life will remain as is as she continues to work as a nurse in the country. Luckily, Debbie’s husband is able to shoulder the family’s expenses. She says this could take as long as 10 years. She doesn’t know when the hospital will regularize her, at which point she is entitled to double the Php 9,400 she makes today. Debbie has been working at the same hospital as Mark for a year now on what is called a “continuous” basis. Yet he admits that the only way to achieve upward social mobility in the Philippines with his chosen profession is to drown himself in debt.ĭebbie* is also a nurse in her forties, but unlike Mark, she is at the bottom of the nurse hierarchy, at Nurse 1. He says he is content with his financial situation, having been able to provide for his son who now works abroad. Since starting in 1980, Mark has climbed the ranks to the position he currently holds. Mark* is a 40-something Head Nurse working at a city hospital in Metro Manila.