“This is not the time for you to resign. I have full trust in you,” President Rodrigo Duterte assures Health Secretary Francisco Duque III.
President Rodrigo Duterte once again shielded Health Secretary Francisco Duque III from criticism as the health chief faced renewed calls to resign as the country's top heath official.
"This is not the time for you to resign. I have full trust in you," Duterte said in a televised address on Monday, September 7. Duterte's vote of confidence for Duque comes as his allies in the Senate have called on the health chief to resignThe Senate's latest call came on Monday after back-to-back hearings at the upper chamber over billion-peso anomalies in the state health insurer.
Duque has faced intense criticism over major lapses in the Philippines pandemic response as well as his failure to curb corruption at the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation despite sitting as its chairman. Duque called the Senate's move"the height of injustice" as he claimed he was not present in board meetings nor did he sign documents regarding issues probed by lawmakers.– Rappler.com
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