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Whatever worker benefits the government will unveil on Labor Day should include a package for those working in the healthcare sector, Senator Joel Villanueva stressed. “Given today’s circumstances, I think that should be a major plank of the traditional May 1 announcement by Malacanang,” said Villanueva, chair of the Senate labor committee. The veteran legislator […]
In response to the projected increase in demand for electricity during the dry season, Senator Grace Poe renewed her push for the promotion and adoption of rooftop solar technology throughout the country. “Summer is usually the season for higher energy demand and costlier electric bills. But we should also see it as a renewed opportunity to […]
The Provincial Government of Pangasinan will start implementing a Palay Procurement Program where the government will purchase directly from farmers to supply provincial government institutions and projects. In a dialogue with local government units (LGUs) of Pangasinan, Senator Kiko Pangilinan said that it is the essence of the Sagip Saka Act. “Nakita na natin ito […]
Some 100 informal settler families in Surallah, South Cotabato will finally settle into their “dream homes” with the completion of a P25-million resettlement housing project in the area funded by the National Housing Authority (NHA). NHA officials formally turned over to the municipal government recently the 100 newly completed housing units that were built in […]
A measure proposing the establishment of a Health Procurement and Stockpiling Bureau under the Department of Health (DOH) has hurdled the committee level at the House of Representatives. The House Committee on Ways and Means approved the substitute bill to House Bill 6995, which provides for the stockpiling of strategic and critical drugs and medicines, […]
Extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures.This is the rationale behind a proposed law that if passed would levy heavier penalties on public officials found guilty of negligence or corruption while the country is under a State of Public Health Emergency. We now live in extraordinary times, and extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. Kaya po ang […]
A lawmaker at the House of Representatives stressed the need to enact a general law protecting all vaccinated individuals against those who will refuse to receive the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines pursuant to the general welfare clause of the 1987 Constitution. Cavite Representative Elpidio Barzaga Jr. cited the general welfare clause stating that “the […]
The city government of Dagupan will reactivate a task force to enforce minimum public health standards at the Tondaligan and Pugaro beaches for the upcoming long weekend that also mark’s the annual Bangus Festival. “People will surely flock to the beaches, so we are going to use the same exact task force who will man […]
Senator Risa Hontiveros led the launch of a state-of-the-art “mobile clinic” to give free medical services to Filipinos in poor and far-flung locations in the Philippines. Hontiveros opened the new “Healthy Pinas Mobile Clinic” in Barangay Turu at Magalang town, Pampanga recently. The mobile clinic can serve a maximum of 300 indigent patients a day. […]
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) has put up emergency tents at the National Kidney Transplant Institute (NKTI) in Quezon City to augment occupancy surge. The tents are in addition to the 100-bed capacity emergency field hospital at the nearby Lung Center of the Philippines. “Ang mga pasyente at mga bantay nila, kung saan-saan na nakapwesto […]