With all the evidence of 'blatant corruption' presented during their probe, senators have little confidence left in PhilHealth chief Ricardo Morales.
is either"blindsided" or complicit in the mess, said senators leading a probe into the allegations.
"I was expecting an indignant reaction, that, 'No, that's unacceptable! That won't do!' And yet he was defending them. That was the sad part about it," Sotto said. Morales' own head executive assistant Etrobal Laborte had raised red flags on some proposed transactions. Instead of acting on a trusted aide's advice, Morales signed the proposals.
Of the P14 billion, some P226 million was released to dialysis clinics, and P4.8 million to maternity clinics – when the IRM was supposed to prioritize hospitals and clinics handling COVID-19 cases. Dialysis and maternity clinics are no place for COVID-19 patients. PhilHealth, with its guaranteed income from the monthly contributions of its members – who are every employed Filipino – is a place where money and power are rife, Lacson added.
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