The pandemic response task force of the government awaits for President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision before acting the deployment ban on health workers, Malacañang said on Thursday.
Officials have already discussed proposals to exempt nurses and other medical workers with contracts signed as of Aug. 28 but President Duterte should still be consulted on the matter, his spokesperson Harry Roque said.
“Kinakailangan po muna konsultahin ang Presidente kasi ‘yung desisyon po na mag-impose muna ng moratorium ay desisyon po ng Presidente,” Roque said during a Palace press briefing.
[We need to consult the President first because the decision to impose a moratorium was the decision of the President too.]
“Ayaw naman po namin pangunahan po ang ating Presidente,” he added.
[We don’t want to pre-empt the President.]
Groups of nurses and healthcare workers have called on the government to lift the deployment ban.
