(MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) “Nakakatawa ‘no, tayo magsusupply sa labas tapos ‘yong sariling atin hindi natin ma-supply (It’s funny, that we are supplying other countries when we cannot even supply for our own people),” Senator Nancy Binay said in dismay after garments exporters disclosed the plan on Wednesday, April 28. During the hearing of the Senate economic affairs committee, Coalition of Philippine Manufacturers of PPE (CPMP) Executive Director Rosette Carrillo reiterated the group’s lament last year about the lack of demand from the government. “The way the government purchases PPE, it is subject to certain standards, rules for purchasing, so we were subjected to the lowest cost, and unfortunately, at the same time, the Philippine market was flooded with very low-cost PPEs from China, some of them are even substandard,” Carrillo told the senators.