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Friday, October 22, 2004
CCMC pay hike not enough, Tomas admits
By Linette C. Ramos
Sun.Star Staff Reporter
ALTHOUGH the Cebu City Government already increased the salaries of 36 resident doctors of the Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC), Mayor Tomas Osmeña is not sure if the pay will keep them from looking for other jobs.
The City Council approved last Wednesday seven separate resolutions that seek to increase the doctors’ monthly salaries by as much as P2,000.
In a news conference yesterday, Osmeña said not all doctors may be satisfied with the pay raise, especially those who are thinking of looking for employment abroad.
“How can we compete with the salary abroad? There may be doctors who want to become nurses in other countries but that’s okay, there are also so many other doctors who want to have their jobs at CCMC,” the mayor said.
Still, Osmeña said he wouldn’t be surprised if nurses, doctors, teachers and clerks left the country in search of better-paying jobs.
Threat
Recently, the City’s medical consultants threatened to resign if they are not granted an increase in their honorarium, especially after the resident doctors’ pay raise was approved.
The recent increase on the resident doctors’ pay resulted to them getting the same rates as consultants.
But resident doctors are also complaining about the delayed release of their salaries and the increase the City Government promised them last July, which they have yet to receive.
Promotion
With the council’s approval of the resident doctors’ promotion and pay increase, 30 of the 36 doctors will now get a monthly salary of P17,799, while six other doctors will get P18,244.
All 36 doctors, whose previous items were medical officers 3, were promoted to medical officers 4.
Their increase will be retroactive to January this year.
The increase will be charged against the fourth supplemental budget, which has yet to be proposed to the City Council, said Councilor Christopher Alix, committee on health chairman and proponent of the resolutions.
(October 22, 2004 issue)
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