Robredo: Hike DoH budget for its drug rehab program

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Vice President Leni Robredo said the Department of Health (DOH) should receive a higher budget for its rehabilitation program for drug dependents, as part of her solution to address the menace of illegal drugs in the country.

“Kailangan dapat mas bigyan ng malaking budget iyong DOH para magawa nila iyong dapat nilang gawin ,” she told reporters in an ambush interview after meeting with DOH officials on Monday afternoon.Robredo said that the DOH is struggling to provide health-based solutions to combat the country’s drug menace.

“Dahil doon sa plea bargaining ng both users and pushers, nagkakasama-sama sila sa isang rehabilitation center ,” she said. Although the Health Department is “facing a lot of challenges,” the Vice President stressed that the agency is “very commendable [and] very admirable as far as the rehabilitation and reintegration phase is concerned.”

 

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