Barangay health resorts project a "good" but fate depends on the ACO – Duque

Published 6 : 17 PM, July 04, 2018

Updated WELL BUT … Health Secretary, Francisco Duque III, says that Barangay Health Resorts are a good project, but it remains to be seen if the health department will continue to be implemented due to irregularities in its implementation. Photo by Angie de Silva / Rappler "data-parentid =" "

WELL BUT … Secretary of Health Francisco Duque III says that Barangay Health Resorts are a good project but it remains to be seen if health department will continue implementation due to irregularities implementation Photo by Angie de Silva / Rappler

MANILA, Philippines – Secretary of Health Francisco Duque III, said Health Barangay (BHS) of several billion pesos is "good" but its continued implementation depends on the conclusions of the Commission.

Duque made this statement in an interview with Rappler on the sidelines of the hearing of the Senate on the BHS Project of the Department of Health (DOH)

"It's a good project but we'll have to wait They'll tell us – I'm sure there will be a recommendation if we should pursue it" , he said, questioned about the future of the project.

Duque said the BHS project is a good project because it "will reduce the gap in terms of access of our populations, especially the poor, to remote areas to benefit from health services. primary care that will be provided by the barangay health resorts. " [19659006Itpointedoutthattherewere"possi""irregularities"inprojectimplementationthesubjectofagroupofworkthathehadformed(READ:DOHdiscoveredtheirregularityoftheprojectintheproposaloftheBangangay-Duque)

Poor Planning

During the year. Senate hearing, Duque and health secretaries Janette Garin and Paulyn Ubial the "bad planning" of the project. (READ: Duque strikes Garin on "poor planning" for the Barangay health resorts project)

Duque said that the root cause of all the problems is the "very flawed" planning from the beginning as there were many "ends."

"Kung naplano ng maigi and nagkaroon ng guidelines, itong mga detalye sana ay nailatag . Kasi parang naghahabol na'a lahat [ngayon] (If there was careful planning and there were guidelines, these details would have been drawn, because now it seems that everything is done in haste), "he said. "Planning had a lot of shortcomings, so always, if the planning is deficient, the implementation becomes insufficient, the implementation is affected," he added.

The private contractor JBros Construction Corporation also cited the lack of coordination between the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Education. health stations. This led to the demolition of a completely built unit in a public primary school in Lipa, Batangas, to give way to a school gym.

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Officials from different departments the DOH also gave contradictory statements. Some officials have recommended that JBros Construction should be paid for the construction of the health posts.

Addressing this, Duque said the DO would look to the ACO to flesh out the "full truthful story." Walang ] (There is no) consistency of the results that have been reported. So, in the end, it's the ACO, the constitutional body – objective, impartial – that brings together all the documents. At the end of the day, ano ba yung (what is the) documentary evidence that can give us the complete truthful story? The BHS project, implemented by Janette Garin, then Secretary of Health, aimed to establish 5,700 rural health units to ensure that barangays have access to primary health care. Meanwhile, Roger Tong-an, undersecretary of the DOH, who led the agency's working group on the investigation of the BHS project, said that 218 health posts have been completed with a complete documentation.

In a statement, Senator Juan Edgardo Angara said that the BHS project "remains a noble initiative that needs to be pursued."

the completion of the project would ensure the delivery of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) Primary Care Kit to the Filipino poor. – Rappler.com