MANILA Mayor Isko Moreno announced the release of P184 million in benefits to the city’s health care workers on Thursday.
Moreno said benefits cover members of the Manila Health Department, barangay health workers, as well as employees of city hospitals and health centers.
He noted that the initiative is part of his administration’s efforts to ensure that health workers receive due benefits despite the city’s financial challenges. Moreno said that through improved fiscal management, the city was able to provide all benefits the city’s health care workers are entitled to.
“The P14.6 billion we inherited [from the previous administration] was not enough to disrupt the distribution of PhilHealth shares for our health workers,” Moreno said in Filipino during his State of the City Address on Wednesday.
The city government, he said, continues to distribute various benefit shares from real property tax collections and business clearances.
“Long live the taxpayers of the city of Manila; because of you, many lives were saved,” Moreno said.
The mayor thanked the city’s health care workers for their role in delivering health services to residents.
“As I have said many, many times, I will fix things and I will give what is due to you,” Moreno said.
