The Research Institute for Tropical Medicine will be absorbed into the new government agency if the bill creating the Center for Disease Control is enacted into law, an official of the Department of Health said on Thursday.
At a Senate hearing on the bill, DOH Disease Prevention and Control Bureau Director Razel Nikka Hao answered in the affirmative when asked if the RITM would be absorbed into the CDC.
“I noted na the virology institute says ‘Resarch and Manufacturing Capacity’ eh di ba yun din ang ginagawa ni RITM?” Cayetano asked. RITM Director Celia Carlos told the Senate panel that the institute agreed to the proposed setup with their colleagues in the DOH to make the CDC structure “more cohesive.”
Carlos explained that the Virology and Vaccine Institute will focus on research of different categories of organisms such as plants, animals, and humans as opposed to the RITM which only concentrates on humans.
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