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'Irregularities in pandemic response fund deprived people of right to health care, right to live'

Health workers to stage mass protest on DOH neglect of their plight

Health workers to stage mass protest on DOH neglect of their plight

Health workers give Duterte 'failing' mark

DOH slammed for 'deserting' medical frontliners

(FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Villafuerte on Friday, April 16, specifically said that the DOH failed to fully equip the frontliners with personal protective equipment (PPEs) that are essential in their daily battle to save COVID-19 patients and their lives as well. The failure of DOH executives to use the P3 billion allotted in Republic Act (RA) No. 11494, or the “Bayanihan to Recover as One Act (Bayanihan 2), for the acquisition of PPEs “smacks of criminal neglect,” he added. Villafuerte said the health officials’ continuing inaction “has put our medical frontliners at serious risk of infection, great harm and even death on a daily basis in the absence or shortage of such indispensable protection against the highly infectious pathogen.”