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PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte signed the bill Bayanihan to Recover As One, of 165,000 million pesos, or Bayanihan 2, which allows him to realign funds to further improve the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go, a former special assistant to the president, confirmed the signing of Bayanihan 2.
The Senate and House of Representatives ratified the proposed measure last month.
Bayanihan 2 allocates P140 billion as ordinary allocations and P25.5 billion as reserve funds.
Wide-ranging, it will fund various programs to stimulate the economy, improve health care, purchase vaccines, fund testing and tracking efforts, and help industries and workers severely affected by the pandemic.
Most of the budget will go to loans for sectors affected by the pandemic, such as small and medium-sized enterprises, transport, tourism and agriculture.
It also allocates subsidies to students in public and private elementary schools, high schools and universities whose families were affected by the work stoppage due to the quarantine closures.
It also covers health-related government responses, including retroactive payment of the P100,000 hazard pay for health workers; the employment of existing emergency health workers; and risk allocation of public and private health workers who care for patients with coronavirus.
The Department of Health previously reported that approximately P53.48 billion – nearly half of the P165 billion stimulus package – will go to support health workers (TS), to maintain the momentum of the Department of Health and to maintain to protected HCWs while they are in the At the same time, prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed by coronavirus patients.
While the Bayanihan to Heal As One Act, or Bayanihan 1, provided front-line physicians with personal protective equipment, accommodation, and risk allocation, among other benefits, Bayanihan 2 will focus on primary care and improving the health care system. Health.
The Undersecretary of Health, María Rosario Vergeire, said that Bayanihan 2 would build on the achievements of Bayanihan 1.
“Bayanihan 1 was a call to both our public and our medical communities to unite in a common vision to bring healing to our sectors beset by the coronavirus,” said Vergeire.
“Bayanihan 2 takes the next steps to consolidate that healing through recovery, made possible by strengthening the structures of our healthcare system while heeding the call of our healthcare workers for assistance and supplies,” he said.
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