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[OPINION] Stay in, sit tight as COVID-19 sweeps the country

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'The vaccination program needs to be stepped up and continued, eventually as part of the regular service of health facilities. It cannot be sustained as a national program.' Opinion ThoughtLeaders

Dr. Alfredo R.A. “Alran” Bengzon, who was then-president Corazon Aquino’s health secretary, knew he had inherited a corrupted and underfunded health system from the older Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.

As one of the first doctors with a Master of Business Administration degree, Alran set his priorities for the meager budget of the DOH by setting up a management structure that reduced his supervisory load from 40 to seven. His pragmatic position on the decentralization of health services under the Local Government Code would be his undoing when he ran for a Senate seat in 1992.

It would also be senseless to have them all tested, since the National Capital Region Plus is now a COVID-19-transmission hotspot , so why overload laboratories with tests that are costly, while the money could go to symptomatic treatment? Is it so we can know the numbers, which can only lead to the “worried well” being more worried?

Mayors and governors need to support their local health systems so that hospitals do not get overwhelmed.

 

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