Philippine General Hospital – 8523-7123/0923-5373168/09089771045; od.uppgh@up.edu.ph (Mr. Angelo L. Magbanua)
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 28) — Five hospitals and some designated quarantine facilities are set to hire nearly 1,000 new health workers to augment their manpower, the Department of Health said Tuesday.
The department said it has opened 989 slots for more medical personnel in the Philippine General Hospital, the Lung Center of the Philippines, the Dr. Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital, the East Avenue Medical Center, the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine and facilities from the Bureau of Quarantine.
The DOH said the hospitals mentioned have already employed 310 new health workers, saying the staffing is part of the agency’s emergency hiring program.
Health spokesperson Ma. Rosario Vergeire said the DOH has received requests from 37 health facilities to boost the number of their frontliners, many of whom contracted the coronavirus at work.
Interested health workers may apply at the following institutions:
Lung Center of the Philippines – 8924-6101 loc 4025, 4028/09228647673; lcp_cbalderosa@yahoo.com (Ms. Consolacion M. Balderosa)
Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital and Sanitarium – 8924-2571 loc. 114/09434799337/09054486571; rcabulay@yahoo.com (Ms. Rea C. Cabulay)
Research Institute for Tropical Medicine – 8807-2682 LOC. 221/09431388772; hrd.ritm@yahoo.com.ph
Bureau of Quarantine – 5318-7500 loc 112; personnel.boq@gmail.com (Ms. Laarni Liwanag, address applications to Dir. Ferdinand S. Salcedo)
