More than two years after the public health emergency was lifted, thousands of private hospital staff and barangay health workers (BHWs) remain without the allowances they earned. UNI-PLC and the National Federation of Barangay Health Workers (NFBHW) denounced this announcement, calling it premature and detached from reality. That fight intensified at the House of Representatives on September 4, when Rep. San Fernando directly confronted Secretary Herbosa during the DOH budget briefing. “Barangay health workers stood at the frontlines when the nation needed them most. “No government should ever claim its obligations are finished while frontline health workers are still waiting for what they are owed.