Allowances for 4,000 frontliners in BARMM released

COTABATO CITY — The Bangsamoro government has started releasing allowances for 4,000 frontliners involved in the mitigation efforts against the coronavirus pandemic in the autonomous region from 2020 to 2023.

Radio reports in Cotabato City on Thursday stated that among the recipients of the Health Emergency Allowance (HEA) are barangay volunteer emergency responders, personnel of different Army battalions and brigades, and members of units under the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PRO-BARMM).

The Ministry of Health-BARMM) started releasing on Monday the HEA from the national government, ranging from P3,000 to 9,000 per health worker, depending on the extent of services of each to the local communities during the pandemic.

Employees of the municipal and provincial health offices and hospitals are also covered by the HEA distribution, according to BARMM’s health minister, Kadil M. Sinolinding, Jr. — John Felix M. Unson