Department of Health(DOH)

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January 16, 2023 Dear Maricar Piedad, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Jan 12, 2023 11:55:25 AM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. Your Request You asked for Total Number of Health Workers in the Philippines. Response to Request Your FOI request is approved. Below are the responses to your request 1. Total number of healthcare workers in the Philippines (per type, per contract status, per type of facility, per region) - May we respectfully refer our eFOI client to the DOH HRH Statistics through the PowerBI dashboard http://bit.ly/HRHStat-2022, for HRH information from the years 2016 to June 2022. The said platform readily provides data on the distribution of selected health professionals reporting in private and public health facilities in the health sector. 2. Latest report on the disbursement of Special Risk Allowance for HCWs (number of recipients, amount disbursed, monthly and regional distribution) - As of 13 January 2023, the Department of Health already disbursed SRA funds amounting to Php 9,662,052,130.42 to eligible 569,977 health care workers 3. Latest report on the Emergency hiring of HCWs for COVID-19 response (number of hired HCWs, number of available positions, etc.) - With regard to the latest report on the Emergency Hiring in response to COVID-19, as of 29 December 2022, there were 3,273 hired human resources for health (HRH). However, per Department Circular No. 2022-0638 entitled "Augmentation of Human Resources for Health under Emergency Hiring in Response to COVID-19 for Fiscal Year 2023", the Department of Health no longer extends the hired HRH under Emergency Hiring whose contracts expired on 31 December 2022 Kindly accomplish the FOI Request Feedback form at the link https://bit.ly/DOHFOIFeedbackForm Thank you Your right to request a review If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to the DOH Central Appeals and Review Committee, at [email protected]. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011). Thank you. Respectfully, FOI Decision Maker FOI Receiving Officer