DOLE lays grant guidelines

for COVID surviving HCWs

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol March 26 (PIA) -- With 27 health care workers (HCW) in Bohol getting positive for Coronavirus disease (COVID), the Department of Labor and Employment in Bohol through Officer in Charge Angelie Salgados reminds HCWs in the private sector to consider compensation grants available under the Bayanihan To Heal as One Act.

Salgados shared Labor Advisory No. 21, series of 2020, which detailed the Department of Health (DOH), DOLE and Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Joint Administrative Order No 2020-0001, which also laid down the guidelines on the verification of the qualifications of public or private HCW or their beneficiaries on the grant of compensation.

Eligible for the compensation grant of P100, 000.00 are private HCW (pHCW) who contracted severe COVID-19 reckoned from February 1, 2020 and recovered.

In case of death, beneficiaries from the private health care sector can get P1,000,000.00.

According to the Labor Advisory, a pHCW can be eligible for compensation grant if she provides critical and urgent services for the containment and management of COVID 19 and is, a certified employee, contractor or self-employed who is working in a public or private health care facility.

As proof, the pHCW has to submit a duly accomplished DOLE prescribed form, certificate of employment, medical abstract signed by the attending physician and a photocopy of any two government issued identification cards.

For private HCWs who became COVID casualty, other than those documents listed above, the documents for submission should include the original copy of the casualty's death certificate issued by the Philippine Statistics Authority, or a PSA-authenticated Death Certificate issued by the LGU.

As to the Labor Advisory, these documents would be submitted by the private HCW or duly authorized representative or casualty's beneficiary to the DOLE Provincial Field Office where the pHCW operates, physically or online.

The DOLE Regional office evaluates the completeness of the submitted documents and submits recommendations within the day to the DOH through its Malasakit Program Office and Medical Assistance to Indigent Patients Coordinators in the region's Center for Health and Development, according to the DOLE.

When everything is approved, the DOH will notify the pHCW, representative or beneficiary, and or if it is disapproved, stating reasons for disapproval.

For disapproved claims, an appeal may be sent to the DOH, addressed to the Secretary.

The compensation grant would be from the DOH, according to the Labor Advisory. (rachiu/PIA-7/Boho

PRIVATE HEALTH CARE WORKERS. With the public helath system using everyone's help and expertise, Private Health Care Workers assigned to contain covid and care for the sick, be they hired by a contractor to be deployed to public hospitals, or self employed, for the care of the COVID sick can get the compensation grants, says the DOLE Labor Advisory. (PIABohol)

HEALTH CARE WORKERS' RISKY JOBS. For their increased risk being assigned as a frontliner in the contraol and containment of COVID, the government has also opened a compensation grant to private health Care workers who fall severely ill with COVID, or to the surviving beneficiaries of the health care workers who die in the line of duty. (PIABohol)