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Healthcare at the top of admin agenda, says Marcos
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said that his government is working "relentlessly" to make sure that all Filipinos had access to health care as he intends to build more health centers in rural areas. The Chief Executive said this as he inspected the building of a new multi-specialty medical center in Clark, Pampanga, which he said was part of his administration's efforts to advance quality healthcare to Filipinos. "Rest assured, this administration is determined to bring quality healthcare and services closer to (the) Filipino people... We will not stop until every Filipino can say they have good access to quality healthcare," he said in his speech during Clark Multi-Specialty Medical Center's groundbreaking ceremony. “This is not a single project that stands on its own alone. This part of a larger system of healthcare provision that we are putting together to service our kababayans so that they don’t have to wait to get very, very sick before they go to the big hospitals,” he said during his speech. The President also underscored his goal of giving poor Filipinos access to medical treatments as he said that he wants the government to bring the healthcare down to the people. “We will establish rural healthcare units. We will establish barangay centers. We will establish botica de barangay,” Marcos said. He explained that the Covid-19 pandemic was part of the reason why his government puts healthcare at the top of its list of priorities, because the country needs to be ready in case there is another major health crisis. Marcos urged the public to be part of the solution when addressing healthcare problems and “put forward innovative alternatives that you believe can help uplift the lives of our fellowmen.” Once completed, the CMSMC is expected to receive patients not only from Pampanga and the Central Luzon region, but also from Metro Manila, Ilocos Region and the Cagayan Valley Region, Marcos said. Health Secretary Ted Herbosa said earlier that the medical center would be made through donations and funds from the government. Herbosa had said that the building will start out as a general hospital and then "move up to a children's specialty, then a cardiac specialty, then a kidney specialty." During his first State of the Nation Address, Marcos talked about how important specialty hospitals like the Philippine Heart Center, Philippine Lung Center, National Children's Hospital and National Kidney and Transplant Institute were, especially during the pandemic. Marcos said that the government has been looking for places to put specialty hospitals. He said that these hospitals shouldn't just be in Metro Manila, but also in the towns and provinces across the country. The post Healthcare at the top of admin agenda, says Marcos appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Ablan: Resignation nothing to do with Rappler report
An official of the Department of Education on Friday broke his silence on a malicious report published by Rappler alluding to him as one of the officials who resigned over a messy laptop deal contracted by officials in the previous administration. Atty. Michel Kristian Ablan, DepEd Undersecretary for Administration, told the Daily Tribune that he relinquished his post on 28 April for personal reasons, contrary to a Rappler report that he quit from his post, along with Assistant Secretary Christopher Lawrence Arnuco, due to the laptop fiasco. “It (resignation) had nothing to do with the laptop or Transpac reports of Rappler. In due time, I will answer point by point the issues raised by those reports in order to clear my name,” Ablan said. He added that as a Career Executive Service officer or CESO, he will be transferring to the CESO pool of the Career Executive Service Board. In a Facebook post on Friday, Ablan clarified that he was not the one who entered into the laptop contracts. “I don’t know why it’s being linked to me. These contracts were entered into by the previous DepEd Admin,” his post read. Rappler’s two-part report published on 1 and 2 May showed Transpac’s letter dated 18 November 2022 addressed to Ablan, demanding P34.5 million payment for the controversial laptops. The Senate, in January, released its Blue Ribbon committee report on the overpriced and outdated laptop procurement through the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, a year before Ablan joined DepEd. Ablan is a former Undersecretary for Administration and Finance at the Presidential Communications Operations Office and concurrent Program Director of the Freedom of Information. The result of the five hearings of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee showed that the contract for the supply and delivery of laptops for public school teachers under the 2021 DepEd Laptop for Teachers Procurement Project was overpriced by at least P979 million. Aside from administrative cases, the committee also recommended the filing of graft, falsification of public documents, and perjury charges against the following officials: • Former DepEd Undersecretary Alain del B. Pascua; • DepEd Undersecretary Annalyn M. Sevilla; • Former DepEd Assistant Secretary Salvador C. Malana III; • Director Abram Y.C. Abanil; • Former PS-DBM OIC executive director Lloyd Christopher Lao; • Former PS-DBM OIC executive director Jasonmer L. Uayan; • Bids and Awards Committee Chairman Ulysses E. Mora; • Engineer Marwan O. Amil; and • Other members of the Special Bids and Awards Committee I and SBAC technical working group and secretariat of DepEd or PS-DBM. Ablan, on 22 November 2022, invited DepEd computer suppliers to a dialogue at Oranbo Elementary School in Pasig City, reminding them to adhere to the agreed technical specifications of items, rather than focus on the color and other non-technical aspects of the laptop. Wanting to provide the best that the DepEd budget can afford for its learners, he told suppliers that there has to be a way for the Department to ensure that the laptops are in good running condition for at least three years. "We have laptops that break in less than two years. So that's my one concern. I want, when you say there is a service center when you brag that you have a mobile repair unit, make sure that you really have a mobile repair unit," Ablan was quoted as saying during the dialogue. The post Ablan: Resignation nothing to do with Rappler report appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
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