Windows26: PhilHealth’s own union rejects P90-billion fund transfer

August 16, 2024

Hi, reader! Today, we're covering PhilHealth's own labor union rejecting the P90-billion fund transfer, the DOH's heightened alert against mpox, and Baguio vendors' efforts to raise P4 billion to keep the city market.

PhilHealth's own union rejects P90-billion fund transfer

The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) labor union has joined the opposition against the transfer of the state health insurer's supposedly unused funds of nearly P90 billion to the national government and called for expanding health benefits using that money to lessen the out-of-pocket expenses of Filipinos needing medical care.

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DOH: Monitoring systems on alert vs mpox spread

The Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday said the country's surveillance systems had been placed on alert as the World Health Organization declared mpox (formerly monkeypox) a global public health emergency for the second time in two years, following an outbreak in Africa that could spread outside the continent.

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Baguio vendors' target: P4 billion to keep city market

Small traders and businessmen at the century-old Baguio City Public Market are trying to raise P4 billion to wrestle it back from a mall developer that has offered to build a P4.6 billion retail building for the summer capital.

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Comelec chair bares more fraud claims

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will expand its probe of election irregularities to include allegations of rigged bidding, price jacking and tax fraud that the US Department of Justice unearthed in connection with the bribery and money laundering charges against ex-Chair Andres Bautista and officials of the poll body's former automation service provider Smartmatic.

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PH shoal situation: 'Monster' out, smaller Chinese vessel in

The massive China Guard Coast (CCG) ship also known as "The Monster" has left Escoda (Sabina) Shoal in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) after staying there for more than a month but has been replaced in the area by a smaller CCG vessel, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said on Thursday.

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EDITORIAL: Imperatives after OFW deaths

Hardly have we rejoiced over the 15-year prison term given the man behind Jullebee Ranara's murder in Kuwait last year, when comes news about the suspicious death of two more overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Saudi Arabia.

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