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The government should immediately “release and disperse” the P7.92-billion fund in the 2022 national budget for the government’s COVID-19 Laboratory Network so the current surge in the demand for testing could be met, Senator Joel Villanueva said. Villanueva said the amount should be “downloaded without delay” to public health facilities so they can cope with […]
The Department of Education (DepEd) expressed its appreciation to President Rodrigo Duterte and the members of Congress after the education sector obtained the largest increase in the approved 2022 General Appropriations Act (GAA). Malacañang has announced that the education sector, which includes DepEd, SUCs, and CHED, will receive the highest allocation with P788.5 billion, P36.8 […]
State insurer Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) will receive almost P80 billion in subsidies allocated under the P5.02-trillion 2022 national budget, according to a party-list lawmaker. Anakalusugan Party-list Representative Mike Defensor said the PhilHealth subsidy amounting to P79,990,995,000 is P8.368 billion higher than last year’s P71.353-billion subsidy. “Increasing taxpayer subsidy would provide more insurance coverage […]
Funding for medical scholarships will be boosted to about P2.6 billion in 2022, as the Doktor Para sa Bayan Act, which aims to produce thousands of physicians, goes on full blast, the law’s principal sponsor, Senator Joel Villanueva, said. Villanueva said the P2.6 billion will be distributed to state universities offering a doctor of medicine […]
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 […]
A group of educators has called on Congress to raise the funding for the country’s feeding program. This, as the funding for the School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP) had been slashed by around 2.7 billion compared to this year’s allocation in the proposed 2022 budget of the Department of Education. Abante expressed bemusement at the decrease […]
Senator Win Gatchalian said the government should continue pouring in funds for COVID-19 response measures addressing the ongoing health crisis as well as income and job generation programs in the proposed P5.024-trillion national budget next year. “Ang taong 2022 ay COVID-19-year pa rin. Dapat tutukan pa rin natin ang paglaban sa COVID-19 kaya ibig sabihin […]
The last budget request of President Rodrigo Duterte should “capture the urgency and the dimensions” of the national recovery from the pandemic that he laid out during his final State of the Nation Address, Senator Sonny Angara said. “The budget puts the money where the rhetoric is,” Angara said. The veteran legislator said the plans […]