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Neophyte solon wants 2023 budget for students with special needs restored

A party-list representative has added her voice to calls to restore the P560-million budget allocation for children with special needs in the proposed 2023 national budget under the Department of Education (DepEd). Ako llocano Ako Party-list Rep. Richelle Singson (Photo from Singsonā€™s office)

Cost-effective pneumonia vax to prevent bakuna budol pushed

Probinsyano Ako Party-list Rep. Jose Singson Jr. (File photo) MANILA - The chairman of the House Committee on Public Accounts on Monday stressed the need to make a more economical, yet equally effective, child pneumonia vaccines accessible to the public to help save the government billions of pesos in losses. Probinsyano Ako Party-list Rep. Jose Singson Jr. made the call as he urged Congress to look into the so-called "bakuna budol", which pertains to the controversy surrounding the pneumococcal vaccine procurement. "It is usually the people who are marginalized that are at risk for getting pneumonia. Procurement issues with the vaccine are roadblocks to our goal of universal healthcare and so we need to get to the root of this issue," Singson said. He said providing the existence of a monopoly shows that the "government is losing billions of pesos while possibly depriving more children to be vaccinated against child pneumonia." Singson cited the World Hea

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