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A6 NEWS<br />
Tuesday, 9 July 2019<br />
Daily Tribune<br />
RAINBOW warriors belonging to the LGBT community support the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor’s programs.<br />
New chief looks into PhilHealth mess<br />
The PhilHealth said that it has allegedly lost P154<br />
billion since 2013 due to the ghost dialysis scam<br />
and several other fraudulent schemes and the<br />
existence of a supposed mafia in the agency<br />
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Ricardo Morales also stressed<br />
that the anomalies could not have<br />
happened without assistance by<br />
people from within PhilHealth.<br />
He noted that he will get into the<br />
bottom of these incidents.<br />
“Some of these anomalies,<br />
if they are true, cannot happen<br />
without inside assistance. So,<br />
it’s very suspicious. But I intend<br />
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“Netizens who are using keyboards<br />
are just that, they do not know how<br />
war works. So we need to prepare<br />
for it, if that’s what they want,”<br />
he added.<br />
The former Bureau of<br />
Corrections chief also noted that<br />
the Philippines needs a reserve<br />
force which can be called upon in<br />
times of emergency.<br />
He stressed that he would<br />
rather restore mandatory<br />
military<br />
to investigate each and every<br />
report of these anomalies and<br />
get to the bottom of each one,”<br />
Morales said.<br />
To recall, the PhilHealth said<br />
that it has allegedly lost P154<br />
billion since 2013 due to the<br />
“ghost dialysis” scam and several<br />
other fraudulent schemes and the<br />
existence of a supposed “mafia”<br />
in the agency.<br />
“It’s easier said than done but<br />
I want to rely on a bulletproof,<br />
service for Filipino youth but admitted<br />
it will encounter stiff resistance from<br />
the students.<br />
“They don’t like ROTC, how much<br />
more the mandatory military training?”<br />
De la Rosa quipped.<br />
The Senator also reiterated his<br />
call for the re-imposition of the death<br />
penalty, especially for cases involving<br />
illegal drugs.<br />
The senator is one of the<br />
lawmakers pushing for the return<br />
of capital punishment for drug<br />
traffickers, adding that “protectors<br />
and coddlers” of the narcotics trade<br />
are included in his death penalty bill<br />
for drug traffickers.<br />
“That’s included in the bill. For<br />
example, if we prove that a Bureau<br />
of Customs employee is in cahoots<br />
with drug traffickers, then<br />
he is considered a principal<br />
conspirator. The offense of<br />
one is the offense of all,”<br />
De la Rosa said.<br />
He also said he wants<br />
death delivered by firing<br />
squad for convicted<br />
drug traffickers to<br />
deter criminals from<br />
involvement in the illegal<br />
drug trade.<br />
The former Philippine<br />
National Police Chief also<br />
airtight, robust information<br />
system that will help us reduce<br />
corruption. By the way, there’s no<br />
system in the world that’s totally<br />
free of corruption,” Morales said.<br />
Morales — who was appointed<br />
last month — emphasized<br />
the importance of reducing<br />
corruption in the agency in light<br />
of the implementation of the<br />
Universal Healthcare Law.<br />
“In the other healthcare<br />
systems in the world, the first<br />
apologized for his remarks over the<br />
death of a three-year-old girl in a<br />
buy-bust operation in Rodriguez, Rizal<br />
last week.<br />
He drew flak from commenting<br />
that “sh*t happens” when asked for<br />
a statement on Myka Ulpina’s death<br />
during a sting operation last 30 June.<br />
“I apologize to the family for<br />
the comment that I made. It was<br />
wrong. Those words are for the<br />
police community only and not<br />
for the general public since it may<br />
be given another meaning,” De la<br />
Rosa said.<br />
“I apologize to the family. No<br />
one wants any person to die. Even<br />
criminals and especially innocent ones,<br />
innocent children like a three-year-old<br />
kid. It’s very painful to lose a child like<br />
that. It was really an unacceptable<br />
situation,” he added.<br />
So we need to prepare for it, if<br />
that’s what they want.<br />
To recall, police claimed that<br />
the toddler was used as a human<br />
shield by his father Renato<br />
Ulpina who was killed in the<br />
operation along with another<br />
companion and an undercover<br />
officer, Police Senior Master Sgt.<br />
Conrad Cabigao.<br />
The three-year-old’s mother,<br />
however, denied the police’s story,<br />
saying they were asleep when the<br />
incident happened.<br />
few years were a learning curve,”<br />
Morales said. “In the UK, they<br />
had to put a cap after three years<br />
because the cost spiraled out of<br />
control. I anticipate something<br />
similar with our universal<br />
healthcare. It’s not going to be<br />
easy but it’s important to get the<br />
fundamentals right.”<br />
I intend to investigate each<br />
and every report of these<br />
anomalies.<br />
The new PhilHealth chief is<br />
also keen on overhauling the<br />
agency, saying that he is “keeping<br />
his options open.”<br />
“If that is what is needed then<br />
yes. There might be some major<br />
changes that we’ll have. It will<br />
be sometime before I have clear<br />
answers to this but I’m keeping<br />
my options open right now,” said<br />
Morales, also a retired Army<br />
general.<br />
“I’ll have to put together a team.<br />
There are many good people in<br />
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The bike stolen from the Tour<br />
de France fanzone was part of a<br />
campaign by charity Qhubeka to<br />
raise money all over the world<br />
to provide under privileged<br />
women and children with bikes,<br />
helmets and training.<br />
“We made four bikes in the<br />
colors of the jerseys (yellow,<br />
green, polka-dot and white), so<br />
when the riders are presented<br />
with them after a race, those<br />
bikes are there on the stage<br />
with the winners,” Qhubeka’s<br />
Jeremy Ford told AFP.<br />
“The yellow jersey, which<br />
is the most prestigious one,<br />
was stolen from a stage in the<br />
Bike hunt<br />
PhilHealth. I just have to identify<br />
them, bring them into line, provide<br />
them with leadership, so we can<br />
accomplish our goal.”<br />
In addressing fraudulent<br />
claims, Morales said PhilHealth<br />
would be working with the<br />
Philippine Statistics Authority<br />
in getting the population’s birth<br />
and death information and noted<br />
that the agency also plans to hire<br />
more investigators and lawyers<br />
to help with probing fraudulent<br />
claims.<br />
“Maybe we need more lawyers<br />
and investigators than doctors<br />
because PhilHealth does not<br />
do diagnosis or cures. It’s<br />
administrative, it’s management.<br />
And a lot of these management<br />
function is investigative, so we<br />
might need more lawyers and<br />
investigators,” Morales added.<br />
“Technology is going to<br />
solve a lot of the manpower<br />
requirements, it will simplify<br />
it but we might need more<br />
manpower.” Elmer N. Manuel<br />
fanzone last night despite lots<br />
of security.<br />
“So we are running a<br />
campaign with as many riders<br />
in the peloton as we can to get<br />
the bike back,” says Ford.<br />
The charity worker was with<br />
Colombian rider Rigoberto<br />
Uran of Education First at the<br />
team bus paddock in downtown<br />
Brussels with a sign reading<br />
#GiveItBack.<br />
“Everybody is trying to<br />
get the bike back, we have<br />
had Bradley Wiggins and Tom<br />
Dumoulin and even the Mayor<br />
is looking for it,” he said.<br />
“So far we have distributed<br />
96,000 of these bikes, mainly in<br />
South Africa,” Ford added . AFP<br />
SENIOR high school students will be reintroduced to military training through the Reserved Officers Training Corps, which newly-elected Sen. Ronald dela Rosa is actively campaigning for.
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