President Rodrigo Duterte has given new PhilHealth chief Dante Gierran until the end of the year to “clean up” the corruption-laden state insurance firm, Malacañang said. | DJEsguerraINQ
Among allegations of corruption raised involve the procurement of alleged overpriced IT equipment; a supposedly questionable release of funds under the corporation’s Interim Reimbursement Mechanism ; and the alleged manipulation of the corporation’s financial status.against Morales and several other officials of PhilHealth.he wanted to abolish PhilHealth
. But Senate President Vicente Sotto III advised the President against it and said that he should instead give Gierran time to fix the corruption woes. “He said he wanted PhilHealth abolished or privatized but I said it might be better to wait a few months and see how the new administration performs and that I have a bill making the Secretary of Finance the chair of the Board instead of the DoH Secretary. He agreed to my proposal,” Sotto said.ADVERTISEMENT
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