Photo courtesy of Alliance of Health Workers MANILA, Philippines — Health workers from the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) staged a protest on Tuesday urging the current administration to increase medical employees' salaries and opposing the government's plan to abolish their hospital in the guise of forming the Philippine Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC). Members of the RITM Employees Association-Alliance of Health Workers' (AHW) protest was in response to the National Capital Region wage board's approval of a wage hike amounting to P40, which according to the group, is far from its request for a P33,000 salary increase to both public and private health workers nationwide.

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