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Mayor Sara to give her one-year salary to SPMC health workers infected with COVID-19
Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte is donating her one-year salary amounting to P2.1 million to frontliners at the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) who contracted COVID-19.
Duterte was moved to donate after learning that 12 SPMC health care workers tested positive for the virus, with 11 already having recovered.
Each frontliner who tested positive will receive P50,000 from the mayor's donation.
The mayor stated that while the aid cannot compensate for their difficulties, it may help alleviate other financial worries they may have.
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