Missy told me she was scared. She’s on her duty shift again in the only COVID-19 hospital in the province. Apart from the fact that she will not be able to go home and spend time with her family while she is on duty, because together with her co-workers they will be billeted at a nearby hotel, she’s worried that she’d get the virus. She and her family live with her parents, both senior citizens. She also has a 5-year old daughter. For fourteen days, she will be in this kind of situation. Then she’d be on 14 days quarantine before going home. She told me she already missed her husband and her kids. She’s still on her fourth day of duty at the COVID ward. Missy is just one of the many who are facing the invisible threat of COVID-19 on a daily basis. Sadly, they are also part of those underpaid, and oftentimes unappreciated health care workers not only in the province of Bohol, but across the country. Based on most recent statistics, nurses are paid Php
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