(File photo) MANILA - The Department of Health (DOH) is working on salary standardization and improvement of benefits among healthcare workers (HCWs) both in the public and private sector to encourage them to stay and serve the country. During a media forum, DOH officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said the department sees the out migration of healthcare professionals to different countries needing to hire them to fill gaps in their workforce which may be brought by resignation or by the pandemic. "We cannot prevent our healthcare workers from leaving because that is their right also to find more productive, and higher salary for them," she said. Earlier, the De La Salle University Medical Center employees' union said the active recruitment and offering of attractive packages to Filipino nursing students by the United Kingdom and Germany could affect the country's healthcare system. "So, ngayon ang ginagawa ng ating gobyerno nakapagpasa tayo ng isang bill na