CAGAYAN de Oro City Councilor Leon Gan is pushing for an inquiry over what he calls "suspicious approval" of 450 job order employees at the JR Borja General Hospital on Monday, July 31.
In a special report, Gan said he received a copy of a document from the mayor's office containing a pre-approved list of the hired 450 job order employees at the city hospital.
"I hope we conduct an inquiry on this because we need to be informed why we are hiring this big of a number na mga job order employees sa city hospital, ubay-ubay sad baya ni," Gan said.
Gan added that the council must set aside doubts and need to have an inquiry if they can justify the basis of the number of job orders.
"We need to set aside doubts, especially us in the City Council, na gikan sa ato ang budget, we need to be enlightened kung asa padulong ning 450 job orders. We need to have an inquiry, anyway if they can prove or justify that there is basis in these number of job orders, there's no problem" he said.
But City Councilor Ma. Lourdes Gaane came to the defense of the city hospital saying that it is only hiring what it needs, especially with the 200-300 patients daily.
Gaane also clarified that the 450 job order positions are existing employees of the hospital.
"These are not proposed, as far as I know, these are existing positions, nagtrabaho naman ni sila,” Gaane said.
Gaane added that JR Borja is a 100-bed hospital and will really need a lot of workers from doctors, nurses, and midwives, to admin work.
The councilor stressed that the hospital functions 24/7.
The city hospital is Level I hospital and is aiming to upgrade with the new Intensive Care Unit beds and the construction of additional buildings.
