50 healthcare workers from Central Visayas arrived in Metro Manila on Wednesday (April 7).
According to the Department of Health (DOH)-Central Visayas, the additional healthcare workers were deployed to help the hospitals in the National Capital Region (NCR) Plus in responding to the COVID-19 cases.
The medical workers will stay in the metro and its surrounding provinces for a month.
The government assured that they will receive additional benefits and special risk allowance.
Report from PTV News/NGS-jbb