• CHERYL G. CRUZ
The Bacolod City government has hired the services of 35 medical personnel, 14 of them doctors and 17 nurses, who will be assigned in barangay health stations and at the lying-in clinic and birthing home center of the City Health Office until June 30.
As per the contracts of service (COS) of these healthcare professionals, each of the 14 medical officers will be paid a monthly rate of P63,997 as actual services to the City Government of Bacolod, and a monthly hazard pay of 13 percent of the rate, or 8,319.61, pursuant to Joint Circular No. 1, series of 2012, of the Department of Health and Department of Budget and Management, or the rules and regulations on the grant of compensation-related Magna Carta benefits to public health workers.
Each of the 17 nurses, on the other hand, will be paid P36,619, plus a monthly hazard pay of 25 percent, or P9,154.75.
They will be assigned either at the TB Section of the CHO, or monitor patients during labor, delivery, and postpartum periods, perform newborn care, bedside nursing and newborn immunization, and gives medications and orientation on family planning, breastfeeding, and essential newborn care, among others.
The three midwives will be stationed at the Bacolod City Lying-in Clinic and Birthing Home Center to monitor patients during labor and postpartum, handle deliveries, and perform suturing of 1st and 2nd-degree perineal lacerations, among others.
They will be paid a monthly rate of P21,211, and 25 percent, or P5,302.75, in hazard pay.
The COS of a radiologist, who will be paid P27,000 plus P6,750 in hazard pay a month, was also ratified along with the contracts of the other healthcare personnel, most of them renewals, during the Feb. 28 regular session of the Sangguniang Panlungsod. | CGC
