1. Leadership: Immediate removal of Health Sec. Duque and all generals and ‘czars’ infesting the Inter-Agency Task Force.”
“2. Human Resources: Rcruitment of more health workers (ie. 10,000 doctors and 20,000 nurses) by offering much better packages to attract them, including better terms and better working conditions, commensurate pay and benefits, and more support and protection.”
3. Health finance. P90-billion for new HCWs, equipment, infra and measure
4. Service delivery. Ensure care from primary to tertiary, bet public and private, and both COVID19 and non-COVID19 cases
5. Health tech. Enhance capacities to test, trace, treat, isolate
“6. Health Information: Immediate improvement of COVID19 data processing and management, by full disclosure of sources and manner of processing, and depoliticizing COVID19 data by providing better access.”
“(T)hese 6 steps will put us in a better footing to protect our HCWs as they try to save more lives. These also allow room for health workers to gather themselves, breathe, and be reinvigorated even as more long-term interventions are being put in place.”
“We call for an end to all militaristic and fascist measures being done in the name of quarantine. Too many lives of HCWs have been needlessly lost due to the wrong priorities taken by this criminally-negligent, corrupt, and tyrannical government.”
“To honor our fallen colleagues is to demand a radical shift from the present blundering response to a scientific, public health, and pro-people response.”
@genenisperos, MD
Geneve Rivera-Reyes, MD
Darby Santiago, MD
Sean Velchez, RN
@STPbasileo, MD
Soraya Escandor, MD
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