Cash incentives given to Leyte district hospital doctors

By Provincial Media Relations Center
July 15, 2010

ORMOC CITY  –  More than half a million pesos in cash incentives were collectively received by 20 doctors of the Ormoc District Hospital as part of the provincial government’s motivation to make better the hospital’s professional and facility services.

Leyte Governor Carlos Jericho Petilla said the giving of cash incentives for the doctors is part of the province’s hospital improvement plan, which the governor initiated at the onset of his now three-term administration.

He said providing the hospital staff, doctors, nurses and other personnel with cash incentives is one motivational strategy for them to work harder, provide better services to the clientele thereby making the whole hospital operation “smooth and thriving.”

The governor personally distributed Saturday the checks of various amounts to the 20 doctors assigned at the Ormoc District Hospital. The checks given totally amounted to P688,520.

Under the governor’s reign, the provincial hospitals and district hospitals under the provincial government were placed under a management improvement program, to make better the services by improving both the hospital staff and the hospitals’ facilities.

State-run hospitals in Leyte started to charge its patients, excluding those categorized as “indigents” to provide the hospitals with their own income.

As the hospitals started earning, they are now able to sustain operations without subsidy from the provincial government, while other extra earnings were also provided to the doctors and the rest of the hospital staff.

Gov. Petilla said the 14 district hospitals in the province contributed more or less P60 million to the local coffers in the past years.