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Republic of the PhilippinesCongress of the PhilippinesMetro ManilaEighteenth CongressSecond Regular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of July, two thousand twenty. [REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11509] AN ACT ESTABLISHING A MEDICAL SCHOLARSHIP AND

Proposed funding in the 2021 national budget for the purchase and delivery of coronavirus vaccine will cover only 1 in 5 Filipinos, and that is based on the tentative price of the cheapest vaccine being developed, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said today. Compounding

Concerns that PhilHealth is taking a financial hit due to the coronavirus has no basis, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said, after data on its COVID-19-related reimbursements was revealed during the Senate debate on the Department of Health’s 2021 budget. Of the state

President Duterte should sign the Medical Scholarship Bill into law next month so whatever required funds to implement it can still be included in next year’s national budget, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. Recto is also proposing that the scholarship be named

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto has urged Malacañang to appoint a “vaccine czar” who can solve the “importation to injection” challenges of getting the COVID-19 vaccine to 110 million Filipinos in a world where rich countries bankrolling their development will get them

Any doctor will tell you never to take expired medicine, but here the DOH is leading the way in letting taxpayer-bought medicines expire in bulk. In a nation where many resort to halving tablets for lack of money to buy the full prescribed dosage, the recently-released 2019 COA

Republic of the PhilippinesCongress of the PhilippinesMetro ManilaEighteenth CongressSecond Regular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of July, two thousand twenty. [REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11494] AN ACT PROVIDING FOR COVID-19 RESPONSE AND RECOVERY

President Duterte should order government agencies to add the most important column in their monthly publication of funds spent, and that is for “goods and services delivered to the people.”  “Spent” is a broad term, and is often used to disguise delays in the delivery of

Senator Ralph Recto discusses the problems hounding the PhilHealth. “It is unfortunate that PhilHealth is imploding in the midst of the pandemic,” he said. Given the limited budget, Recto said the government should beef up our health frontline by hiring more health workers,

They stand shoulder to shoulder with medical staff in public hospitals, but because of their status as private service providers, janitors and security guards are not entitled to hazard and hardship pay despite facing the same health risks.  Taking up the cudgels for them,