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If government really intends to extend the grant of Special Risk Allowance (SRA) and COVID-19 Active Duty Hazard Pay (AHDP) to health workers next year, it should send to Congress a “budget errata” specifying the required amounts that will have to be included in the 2022 national budget, Senator Joel Villanueva said. “Kung seryoso po […]
Deputy Speaker Benny Abante Jr. on Thursday said it is time for Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III to make good on his word and hand over his resignation to President Rodrigo Duterte to end the “epidemic of incompetence” hounding the government’s COVID-19 containment efforts. Duque earlier announced that he will resign after […]
Senator Nancy Binay slammed the removal of the line item for the country’s cancer fund for 2022 by the Department of Health, saying it was a “step back” after Congress “had gone through a lot of hoops to fully empower the national cancer control program”. “The DOH should have taken our cue when we allocated […]
Senator Sonny Angara prodded the Department of Health (DOH) to address the issue of contractualization within its ranks and hasten the regularization of the doctors and nurses working in its hospitals and other facilities. As chairman of the Committee on Finance, Angara confronted the DOH about underspending in the amount of P24 billion, a portion […]
Deputy Speaker Benny Abante Jr has a biblical passage for Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque after President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday evening revealed that he would accept the resignation of the beleaguered health chief if he offered to resign: “the Lord lifts up the humble; he casts the wicked to the ground.” (Psalm […]
While he sympathizes with Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque due to his recent bout with insomnia, Deputy Speaker Benny Abante Jr. said on Wednesday he is more concerned about the sleepless nights of nurses who have yet to receive their benefits from the DOH, which is why he has called on the DOH […]
When it comes to government officials, it is one’s performance in the present that matters, not one’s past. This according to Deputy Speaker Benny Abante Jr., who on Friday said that “leaders in government should be held accountable for their actions today––not what they did years ago––especially when it comes to dealing with the COVID-19 […]
The health department should identify and address its procurement and supply chain chokepoints that seem to be the subject of the latest COA findings of “deficiencies” in the management of some P67 billion in COVID-19 funds in 2020, Senator Joel Villanueva said. “Ang COA report po ay parang MRI scan ng paggamit ng pondo. Itong […]
As the COVID-19 Delta variant threatens to deepen the country’s pandemic woes, the Philippine Educators Alliance for Community Empowerment (PEACE) Party-list is set to hold a webinar on vaccination and herd immunity aimed at providing education stakeholders key updates on the rollout of the national vaccination program. “RESBAKUNA: The Road to Herd Immunity” will be […]
The local government unit of Can-avid, Eastern Samar thanked the Department of Health in Eastern Visayas for approving its request for the establishment of a FOURmula One Plus Botika ng Bayan (F1+BNB). Mayor Gil Norman Germino thanked Department of Health regional director Exuperia Sabalberino for approving their request that will benefit 20 villages and its […]