MANILA, Philippines — The marathon Senate hearings on alleged corruption within the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) showed the “gross incompetence” among the agency’s
Aside from the Senate probe, PhilHealth is also being investigated by the House of Representatives, Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission and a task force created by President Rodrigo Duterte and led by the Department of Justice .would be ideal as corruption allegations continue to hound the state insurer.
“We’ve seen that the board members, especially the heads, are either grossly incompetent or complicit or negligent so those are just the three things that we are looking at, I think that if you’re guilty of one of those, then you don’t deserve a post, especially at this time that we have this pandemic when we rely on the leadership of PhilHealth and the Department of Health,” the senator said.
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