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Iloilo hospitals mull facility upgrading, salary increase for contract workers
- Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/981529
- Monday, April 24, 2017
- (PNA), CBFerrer
ILOILO CITY -- The huge income generated by 12 hospitals managed by the provincial government here will be used to increase the salary of job orders and contractual workers apart from facility upgrading.
Provincial administrator and concurrent chief of the hospital management office Raul Banias said the hospitals incurred a PHP281 million surplus income in 2016. The amount was already turned over to Iloilo Governor Arthur Defensor Sr. on Thursday.
The total income generated by the hospitals last year was PHP546 million. The bulk or 85 percent came from reimbursements of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Philhealth).
In a follow up interview on Friday, Banias said they have asked PHP186 million from the surplus to be utilized for the upgrading of hospital facilities and salary increase.
The operation of hospitals has been placed under the local economic enterprise.
In 2015, Banias said that hospitals also turned over to the provincial government about PHP200 million from its income in the preceding year and PHP236 million from its earnings in 2015.
The PHP236 income in 2016 was also utilized to improve health facilities and in the hiring of 596 additional hospital personnel.