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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

Kakaunti lang ang local governments na may surplus na pera na pwedeng ipambili ng palay. Wala nang laman ang kanilang salop ng pera. Matagal nang inubos ng Covid. Hindi pwedeng i-pasa load ang problemang ito sa mga local government frontliners. Malaking gastos ang pagpapatakbo ng

Whether they are peddling fake news, or counterfeit products, or bogus services, and regardless of where they are run, these sites should have no space in social media platforms. Sham treatments harm the body, and scams rob people of money. But the most dangerous swindle are lies

If there’s an Emmy for the UN General Assembly speeches, the one he delivered can win the prize for the best written.  The team who put policies to prose should be congratulated. What they put together is the template for presidential addresses: cohesive, coherent and

If he wants to succeed, Gierran cannot be a one-man army. The work ahead is too tough and too big for a lone ranger. He needs to have strong backup, but they should not be the boys from Taft alone. Better to recruit alumni of NBI’s neighbor, the Philippine General Hospital. He

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

The President has spoken. It should be read as a cease-and-desist order in big, bold letters by those pushing for this dangerous experiment.  The call of the hour is not for rev gov, but government to rev up its response to the pandemic. A rev gov is not a vaccine against

The barrier to common sense has finally been lifted. No IATF rule triggered the greatest resistance and launched the most jokes. And the fact that they stonewalled for a long time and stubbornly defended it, despite evidence to the contrary, inflicted damage on their reputation.

We lost P1.4 trillion during the first half. About P10.8 billion daily from April to June alone. The economy is gasping in the ER and a more robust stimulus package is the ventilator that it needs. A comprehensive health response, especially testing, which in turn will rebuild

It is a doctor’s prescription with side effects. But if it will cure the patient and prevent medical personnel from falling ill, then there’s no choice but to follow it.  It will be the government’s job to manage the side effects – specifically the tremendous whiplash