THE Marcos administration is seeking an almost half-a-billion peso increase—or to P2 billion—for cancer control and cancer patient assistance funds, according to House Deputy Speaker Ralph G. Recto. That’s the good news, the lawmaker said last Sunday. “The bad news” is that the proposed “agency proper” budget for 2024 for…
THE Marcos administration is seeking an almost half-a-billion peso increase—or to P2 billion—for cancer control and cancer patient assistance funds, according to House Deputy Speaker Ralph G. Recto.“The bad news” is that the proposed “agency proper” budget for 2024 for the Department of Health will suffer a P10-billion cut in the proposed P5.76-trillion national budget for 2024, Recto said.
Recto blamed “the big payroll and overhead in maintaining a large bureaucracy, plus rising debt service,” for boxing out social services. On top of this is P1.02 billion for the Cancer Control Fund, bringing to P2.02 billion the earmarked funds to combat a disease that killed almost 60,000 Filipinos in 2021, or one every nine minutes, the lawmaker explained.
“But some of these amounts should be treated as the floor and not the ceiling and should be augmented as they are lower than what has been appropriated for this year,” Recto said. Four Quezon City-based hospitals will face a combined cut of almost P818 million. These are the Lung, Kidney, Heart and Children’s Centers that President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. wants replicated in the regions.
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