HEALTH workers from the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) staged a noontime roving picket on Tuesday to demand from the national government a salary increase for all health workers and to oppose Senate Bill 1869, also known as the Philippine Center for Disease Prevention and Control (PCDC) Bill, that will abolish the hospital.
Health-care workers (HCWs) of Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) held a lunch break “noise barrage and die-in protest” on Monday to dramatize their protest over the P170-million cut on the maintenance and other operating expenses (MOOE) of their National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for budget year 2022. “We, RITM health…