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LAOAG CITY: Rehabilitation of a seawall and a flood control project in Vigan City damaged by a magnitude 7 earthquake in 2022 will now proceed following the release of P200 million funding from the national government.
THE Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) initiated a relief drive in the Ilocos region and Kalinga on Friday (July 28) for residents severely affected by typhoon Egay.
THE Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) initiated a relief drive in the Ilocos Region and Kalinga on Friday, July 28, for residents severely affected by Typhoon Egay.
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