Go renews call for DOH budget hike as PHL shifts to pandemic recovery • BusinessMirror

Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Health, emphasized in an interview on Tuesday the urgent need to bolster the Department of Health’s budget as the country navigates towards pandemic recovery, even amid several existing and emerging public health concerns.

“Nag-budget hearing noong December 2019, tinapyasan ang proposed budget sa RITM at DOH, di po ako pumayag noon. Dinagdagan pa natin at ibinalik natin ang pondo,” he narrated. With this, Go argued that the health-care system needs more, not less, financial support. He then underscored the urgency for increased investment in the public healthcare system.“Para sa akin po, dapat suportahan natin na dagdagan ang pondo ng DOH. ‘Wag pong bawasan, dagdagan pa po,” he stated further.

“Ito pong mga helpless, mga hopeless nating kababayan, sila ang unahin natin. ‘Yung mayayaman naman po, di pupunta sa public hospitals ‘yan,” he said.

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