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The House Committee on Health on Thursday, Nov. 10, approved the consolidated substitute bill that would establish the Philippine Center for Disease Prevention and Control, which was at the core of the health industry’s concerns during the Covid-19 pandemic.The consolidated measure resulted from the merger of House Bill Nos. 9, 46, 159, 281, 359, 994, 1375, 1715, 2521, 2694, 2730, 2799, 2935, 2977, 3010, 3094, 3117, 3447, 3502, 3530, 3540, 3609, 3666, 4064, 4100, 4147, and 4778.
In its explanatory note, the veteran lawmaker representing Leyte 1st district, his wife, and Acidre said the bill seeks “to modernize the country’s capabilities for public health emergency preparedness and strengthen the current bureaucracy that is mandated to prevent the spread of communicable diseases in the country through organizational and institutional reforms”.
Examples of communicable diseases are chickenpox, Covid-19, Ebola, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HIV, and AIDS, among others, while non-communicable diseases are heart diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes.Iloilo 3rd district Rep. Lorenz Defensor raised the question, while Department of Health Undersecretary Beverly Ho said that the “best practices abroad” started with communicable diseases but eventually expanded to non-communicable diseases.
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