The proposed 2020 budget of PhilHealth's ICT sector was bloated by at least P734 million. Here are some of the proposal's bloated prices compared to the approved prices by the Department of Information and Communications Technology. FULL STORY:
"Too blatant, too brazen," was how Senator Panfilo Lacson described apparently overpriced budget proposals for theAmong questionable items unearthed during the first hearing of the Senate's probe into the corruption scandal on Tuesday, August 4, were an unspecified number of laptops worth more than P119 million, 43 unspecified"ICT resources" worth P40 million, and 3 unnamed projects for P98 million.
Cabading said the proposed 2020 budget of PhilHealth's ICT sector was bloated by at least P734 million. The difference between the proposed 2020 budget and the approved ISSP, which should have been the basis of the budget, was P734 million. In March, Aragona proposed a supplemental ICT budget of P302 million. The board of directors approved it, Cabading said, because Aragona claimed PhilHealth's ICT system would"collapse" without it.
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