Rep. Angelica Co plans to have the House of Representatives approve two more Magna Carta after they approved the Magna Carta for the Virology Institute Bill, Barangay Health Workers, and Health Emergency Auxiliary Reinforcement Team.
Rep. Angelica Natasha Co is focused on having the House of Representatives approve two more Magna Cartas, one for daycare workers and barangay nutrition scholars as they are key to ensuring social justice for the two groups of concerned health personnel working hard at the barangay level.
Following the successful passage of the proposed Magna Carta for Barangay Health Workers, the Virology Institute Bill, and the Health Emergency Auxiliary Reinforcement Team (HEART) Bill, now in the Senate, Co believes that daycare workers and barangay nutrition scholars will also receive strong support in the House.
Magna Carta for daycare workers seeks to improve the working conditions of these workers by increasing their allowances and other benefits.
Daycare workers serve as the 2nd parents of the youth, playing an integral role in molding their characters and developing their personalities in the formative years of the nation’s youth.
The proposed law shall allow these workers to enjoy the security of tenure and other benefits provided under Civil Service rules and regulations, and would be entitled to other compensations and allowances such as overtime pay, hazard pay, and subsistence allowance.
Meanwhile, the barangay nutrition scholar is a volunteer worker who works in the barangay to provide nutrition services and other related activities such as community health, backyard food production, environmental sanitation, culture, mental feeding, and family planning.
They are the catalyst to further strengthen the barangay nutrition program, focused on improving the quality of life in the barangays.
Rep. Co asserted that the Virology Institute and HEART bills are congressional contributions to the pandemic exit strategy and the post-pandemic new normal that the public hope to see soon.
“While I support the extension of the pandemic state of calamity and laud the FDA for finally issuing the emergency use authorization for the new bivalent COVID booster vaccines, I would like to see from the Department of Health more details of their exit strategy.” Co added.
“In much the same way that the community quarantine restrictions were lifted gradually by region, I believe the pandemic state of calamity should also follow a gradual, regional lifting starting with regions where there are no more or very few new COVID cases. Only when all regions are no longer under local state of calamity, should the national state of calamity be lifted based on key metrics. This transition approach could give DOH enough time to administer the bivalent boosters to at least 80 percent of the country’s total population.” Co concluded.
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