Over 3,000 Davao City government-paid health workers will be receiving their Active Hazard Duty Pay (AHDP) and Special Risk Allowance (SRA) covering September 15 to December 19, 2020.

The City Health Office (CHO) has identified 3,538 health workers, medical, allied-medical, and other personnel who are directly catering to or are in contact with Covid-19 patients. These are either regular employees or contract of service or job order, including accredited and registered Barangay Health Workers (BHWs), who are assigned to hospitals, laboratories, or medical and quarantine facilities.

According to City Budget Officer, Ermelinda Gallego, the list of health workers to receive AHDP and SRA has been sent to the Human Resource Management Office (HRMO) to make sure that no health worker is left behind.

The grant of the AHDP and SRA is per Administrative Order No. 35 and 36 by President Rodrigo Duterte and prescribed in the joint circulars Nos. 1 and 2 series of 2020 of the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Budget and Management (DBM).

Gallego said that under the AHDP the frontline Human Resources for Health (HRHs) will get P3,000 per month. While under the SRA, the public and private HWs will receive 25 percent of their basic pay.

“These allowances are over and above their regular hazard pay under the Magna Carta of Public Health Workers,” she said.

This will be funded by the Department of Health with a total of P95.6 million, of which P57.8 million is for the SRA and P37.8 million is for the AHDP.

Recall that during the implementation of the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ), the city government of Davao has granted hazard pay to employees who physically reported to work during this period. A total of 695 regular employees were given P500 per day; 1,222 job orders and contract of service personnel.

The city government has also provided financial assistance to 9,008 city-paid and barangay-paid BHWs, Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNS), and barangay tanods. Those who physically reported for work during ECQ for 10 days and more received P5,000; and P2,000 for those who reported for less than 10 days.

According to Gallego, a total of 10,925 personnel were recipients of the P172,915,378 provided by the local government for the hazard pay and financial assistance during the ECQ.