With the continuous threat of Covid-19, monkeypox and other communicable diseases, a former secretary of the DOH and now Iloilo lawmaker on Wednesday expressed concern on the P4.2 billion or 71.21 percent budget slash in disease prevention.
With the continuous threat of Covid-19, monkeypox and other communicable diseases, a former secretary of the Department of Health and now Iloilo lawmaker on Wednesday expressed concern on the P4.2 billion or 71.21 percent budget slash in disease prevention.
House Committee on Appropriations Vice Chairman and Iloilo Rep. Janette Garin has called on the DOH to put a premium on the country’s prevention and control of communicable diseases. Garin said the funding for the department’s disease prevention has been transferred to the health promotion program, saying, “This move is considered as a wrong priority as the country is still in pandemic.”
Basing on the assumptions of health experts that by this time towards the end of the year there would be an increase in the admission in the hospital because of low Covid booster rate, Garin said this is not yet the time to be complacent, as the virus would still mutate. “We are in dire need of funds and these funds were transferred to the health promotion office and to the blood center and other voluntary blood services, laudable naman po ang programa pero mahirap po kasi iexplain sa taumbayan na ang tinapyas ng DOH ay para sana sa program ng communicable diseases, marami pa tayong challenges, my point is the pandemic is not yet over bakit natin tatapyasan ang control and prevention disease,” Garin said.
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