BACOLOD Councilor El Cid Familiaran urged the Local Health Board to increase the subsistence allowance of barangay health workers from P2,000 to P3,500.
The Bacolod City Council passed on March 8, 2001, City Ordinance 280 that strengthens the implementation of Republic Act 7883 or the Barangay Health Workers Benefit and Incentives Act, and providing funds for this purpose, thereby giving the accredited BHWs a monthly subsistence allowance of P1,000. Under C.O. 280, the power to recommend for the increase of subsistence allowance of the BHWs once every three years lies with the Local Health Board chaired by the City Mayor, it said. The resolution said that from 2001 to 2010, the subsistence allowance of an accredited BHW (252 at present) was increased by the Local Health Board from P1,000 to P2,000. Following the provision of C.O. 280 the subsistence allowance of the BHWs would have been increased thrice, it said. There is a need for an automatic review by the Local Health Board in the granting of subsistence allowance for BHWs considering that barangay nutrition scholars now receive a monthly allowance of P3,500, the resolution said. Submitted by Carla N. Canet Bacolod Sun Star
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