The Department of Health (DOH) may have to be more prudent in its spending next year as its proposed 2024
Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph Recto said however, that the Marcos administration was seeking a significant increase in the allocation for cancer control and cancer patient assistance funds in the proposed P5.76 trillion national budget for 2024.
But in a break from the past when Congress would chide the Palace for cutting cancer control and treatment allocations, this time the Marcos administration has proposed that this year’s Cancer Assistance Fund be doubled to P1 billion next year. Congress is also expected to ea mark P101 billion in premium payments to PhilHealth to achieve universal health care, which swells the DOH budget to P306.1 billion.
Meanwhile, four Quezon City-based major hospitals—Lung, Kidney, Heart and Children’s Centers—which President Marcos wants to replicate in the regions, will face a combined cut of a most P818 million.
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