I was planning to give the NOPH issue a rest already but today I came across this article in the on-line version of the Philippine Daily Inquirer (Inquirer.net) and it jived swack with my post yesterday so I'm copying it here, in part:
Negros Oriental looks for ways to keep doctors
By Romy G. Amarado, Jani ArnaizVisayas Bureau.Dumaguete City -- The Negros Oriental provincial government, through the provincial health office, is now looking for ways to keep doctors from leaving government hospitals.
Provincial Health Officer Dante G. Domingo said since the provincial government could not increase the salary of government doctors because of the ceiling set by the salary standardization law for government workers, one possible incentive is to allow them to engage in private practice during their off duty hours.
Domingo said although there were still many doctors who are motivated by the desire to serve the people and not by money, their salaries were very small.
Domingo said there were doctors in the Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital (NOPH) that were still receiving P16,000 a month, which, he said, was the salary of a security guard of the Government Service Insurance System.
Former Provincial Health Officer Ely Villapando said the low pay of government doctors was one of the reasons many doctors studied nursing to land high-paying nursing jobs abroad.
Among the 45 doctors of NOPH, Domingo said only he and six others have not studied nursing.
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