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Republic
Act No. 7883
Barangay
Health Workers’ Benefits and Incentives Act of 1995
REPUBLIC ACT No. 7883 AN
ACT GRANTING BENEFITS AND INCENTIVES TO
ACCREDIT BARANGAY HEALTH
WORKERS
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Section 1. Short Title. -
This Act
shall
be known as the “Barangay Health Workers’ Benefits and Incentives
Act
of 1995.”
Sec. 2. Statement of
Policy. - The state shall
protect
and promote the right to health of the people and to provide conditions
of health empowerment, where each individual has access to information
and services that will bring about health and well being. The Primary
Health
Care Approach is recognized as the major strategy towards health
empowerment,
emphasizing the need to provide accessible and acceptable health
services
through the participatory strategies such as health education, training
of barangay health workers, community building and organizing. Toward
this
end, this Act shall provide incentives to communities an act as
frontliners
in the Primary Health Care approach.
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The government and all its
instrumentalities shall also recognized the
rights of barangay health workers to organize themselves, to strengthen
and systematize their services to their community; and to make a venue
for sharing their experiences and for recommending policies and
guidelines
for the promotion, maintenance and advancement of their activities and
services.
Sec. 3. Definition.
- The term “barangay health
workers”
refers to a person who has undergone training programs under any
accredited
government and non-government organization and who voluntarily renders
primarily health care services in the community after having been
accredited
to function as such by the local health board in accordance with the
guidelines
promulgated by the Department of Health (DOH).
Sec. 4. Registration.
- In order of barangay health
workers to be entitled to benefits and incentives provided under this
Act,
they shall register with the Local Health Board, through the provincial
health boards in the case of municipalities, shall furnish a copy of
such
registry to the DOH, which is hereby mandated to maintain a national
register
of barangay health workers. The accredited barangay health workers
shall
be given appropriate proof of said accreditation.
Sec. 5. Number of
Barangay Health Workers. - The
DOH
shall determine the ideal ratio of barangay health workers to the
number
of households; Provided, that the total number of barangay health
workers
nationwide shall not exceed one percent (1%) of the total population.
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Sec. 6. Incentives and
Benefits. - In recognition of
their
services, all accredited barangay health workers who are actively and
regularly
performing their duties shall be entitled to the following incentives
and
benefits:
(a) Hazard Allowance. - Volunteer
barangay health workers in
rural
and urban areas, exposed to situation, conditions or factors in the
work
environment or place where foreseeable but unavoidable danger or risks
exist which adversely endanger his health or life and/or increase the
risk
of producing adverse effect on his person in the exercise of his
duties,
to be validated by the proper authorities, shall be entitled to hazard
allowance in an amount to be determined by the local health board and
the
local peace and order council of the local government unit concerned.
(b) Subsistence Allowance. - Barangay
health workers who
render
service within the premise of isolated barangay health stations in
order
to make their services available at any and all times shall be entitled
to subsistence allowance equivalent to the meals they take in the
course
of their duty, which shall be computed in accordance with prevailing
circumstances
as determined by the local government unit concerned.
(1)
educational programs which shall recognize years of primary health care
service as credits to higher education in institutions with stepladder
curricula that will entitle barangay health care workers to upgrade
their
skills and knowledge for community work or to pursue further training
as
midwives, pharmacists, nurse or doctors:
(2)
continuing education, study and exposure tours, training, grants, field
immersion, scholarships;
(3)
scholarships benefits in the form of tuition fees in state colleges to
be granted to one child of every barangay health worker who will not be
able to take advantage of the above programs.
(4)
Special training programs such as those on traditional medicine,
disaster
preparedness and other programs that address emergent community health
problems and issues. (c) Civil Service Eligibility. – A second grade
eligibility shall
be
granted to barangay health workers who have rendered five years
continuous
service as such: Provided, That should the barangay health
workers
become a regular employee of the government, the total numbers of years
served as barangay health worker shall be credited to his/her service
in
computing retirement benefits.
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(d) Free Legal Services. - Legal
representation and
consultation
services for barangay health workers shall be immediately provided by
the
Public Attorney’s office in cases of coercion, interference, and in
other
civil and criminal cases filed by or against barangay health workers
arising
out of or in connection with the performance of their duties as such.
(e)
Preferential Access to Loan. - The DOH in coordination with
other
concerned government agencies shall provide, within one hundred eighty
(180) days after the effectivity of this Act, a mechanism to access to
loan services by organized health workers. The agencies providing loan
services will set aside one percent (1%) of their loanable funds for
organized
barangay health worker groups that have community based income
generating
projects in support of health programs or activities. Sec. 7. Review by the Local Health Board.
-
Every
incentive or benefit for barangay health worker requiring expenditure
of
local funds shall be reviewed and approved by the local health board to
ensure that only the deserving barangay health workers get the same.
Sec. 8. Rules and
Regulation. - The
Department
of Health, in cooperation with the Department of Education, Culture and
Sports, the Department of Interior and Local Government, the Department
of Justice, the Civil Service Commission, and other concerned
government
agencies and non-government organizations, shall formulate, within one
hundred eighty days (180) from its effectivity, the rules and
regulation
necessary yo implement this Act.
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Sec. 9. Separability
Clause. - If any provision of
this
Act is declared invalid, the remainder of any provision hereof not
affected
thereby shall remain in force and effect.
Sec. 10. Repealing
Clause. - All laws,
decrees,
executive orders, and other presidential issuances which are
inconsistent
with this Act are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.
Sec. 11. Effectivity.
- This Act take effect
fifteen
days (15) after its publication in at least two (2) national newspapers
of general circulation.
Approved:
February 20, 1995
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