Tell it to SunStar: Deployment of health professionals

THE national government is spending P9 billion to deploy more than 13,000 health professionals to underserved communities in 2019.

The Department of Health (DOH) is now enlisting 9,138 nurses, 3,650 midwives, 243 physicians and 241 dentists to provide additional medical services in the rural areas.

Of the P9 billion for the Human Resources for Health Deployment Program, P7.8 billion is lodged in the Miscellaneous Personnel Benefits Fund, while the balance of the P1.2 billion is with the DOH.

To augment regular staff, the DOH has been contracting extra health professionals every year to serve under the following programs:

--Doctors to the Barrios, wherein physicians serve for two years mostly in fourth to sixth-class municipalities that have not had a doctor in the last 24 months;

--Medical Pool Placement and Utilization Program (MP-PUP), wherein physicians and/or medical specialists are deployed to DOH-run hospitals and/or provincial hospitals;

--Other DOH health programs. (Rep. Johnny Pimentel, Surigao del Sur)

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