EDITORIAL-CARTOON: MANILA- Suweldo’t benepisyo ng health workers, itaas!
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THE EDITOR
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Editorial – ‘COVID-19 time bomb’
A potentially catastrophic public health problem is threatening to engulf the country’s notoriously overcrowded prisons and jails, where social distancing is virtually impossible and thus perfect grounds for the spread of the highly infectious COVID-19.
READ MORE: https://opinion.inquirer.net/128906/editorial-cartoon-april-15-2020
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With the pandemic still to hit its peak in the Philippines, there is no time to lose. The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism underlines the extraordinary threat in its report “Philippine Jails are a Covid-19 Time Bomb”: “The risks… are not just that the prisoners will infect each other. Eventually, jail and prison officers will have to go home, take a rest, and recharge. When that happens, corrections staff will be exposed to the coronavirus and risk infecting the prisoners when they return. As one jail official told Narag [Raymund Narag, an associate professor at Southern Illinois University and an expert in Philippine jails], ‘One miss, we all die.’”
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EDITORIAL – Public disclosure
In this democratic country, debate has raged on whether people who test positive for coronavirus disease 2019 or suspected of infection should disclose their condition and be publicly identified. The government ended the debate over the weekend, by ordering the public identification of confirmed COVID-19 cases
EDITORYAL – Suweldo’t benepisyo ng health workers, itaas!
Buwis-buhay ngayon ang health care workers. Sila ang unang sumasalo sa mga pasyenteng may infection ng virus. Kalabisan nang sabihin na ang kalahati ng kanilang katawan ay nasa hukay. Kaya maraming bumatikos noon sa panukala ng pamahalaan na bigyan ng P500 allowance ang health workers. Limandaang piso? Napakaliit ng halagang ito sa kinakaharap na panganib ng health workers. Marami nang doktor, nurses at iba pang workers sa ospital ang sumakabilang buhay dahil sa COVID-19 at nadadagdagan pa ang bilang sa pagdaan ng mga araw.
Mabuti naman at natauhan ang pamahalaan at sinabing dadagdagan daw ang suweldo o allowance ng health workers. Malaking tulong ito para sa mga bayaning frontliners na nagtitiis na hindi makita ang kanilang pamilya at ibinubuhos ang panahon sa pagsagip sa mga biktima ng COVID-19. Sa ospital na sila namamalagi. Sobra-sobra na ang kanilang pagtitis at pagsasakripisyo para matugunan ang mga pasyente.
Dapat din naman silang proteksiyunan ng pamahalaan sapagkat marami sa kanila ang nakararanas ng diskriminasyon, pang-iinsulto at ang iba, sinasabuyan pa ng bleach at chlorine kapag nalaman na nagtatrabaho sa ospital.
Gaya ng ginawa sa isang lalaking health worker sa Sultan Kudarat na muntik mabulag dahil sinabuyan ng bleach ng apat na lalaki habang pauwi galing sa pagtatrabaho sa ospital. Ayon sa lalaki, nang makita umano siya na naka-uniporme pang-ospital, dali-dali umanong kumuha ng bleach ang mga lalaki at isinaboy sa kanya. Tinamaan ang kanyang mga mata at hindi siya makakita dahil sa hapdi. Nagmamadali umanong umalis ang mga lalaki. May tumulong sa health worker para madala ito sa ospital.
Ganito rin ang nangyari sa isa pang lalaking health worker sa Cebu City na sinabuyan naman ng chlorine sa katawan. Nang malaman umano na nagtatrabaho siya sa ospital, dali-daling may kumuha ng chlorine at isinaboy sa kanya para ma-disinfect. Ayaw daw nilang mahawa sa virus na maaaring dala ng lalaki mula sa ospital.
Beyond the deal to cut oil production
After four days of intense telephone and video meetings, including blunt negotiations with the presidents of Mexico and Russia and Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince, United States President Donald Trump has cajoled the so-called Opec+ oil cartel to collectively cut production in May and June by close to 10 million barrels per day. The 23 nations involved also agreed to a series of cuts for the next 12 months to manage the cycle in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, and to moderate the inventory overhang. The cuts amount to almost an eighth of global oil production and mark the first time that the US has so actively involved itself in an oil issue. Until now, Mr Trump had been a strident critic of Opec.
READ MORE: https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/st-editorial/beyond-the-deal-to-cut-oil-production
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