(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The Department of Health (DOH) said it is ready to face any investigation on the supposed "deficiencies" in the agency's handling of at least P67 billion fund for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) response as stated in the Commission on Audit's (COA) report. “We are open...
Former senator and Sorsogon Governor Francis "Chiz" Escudero has maintained that the Department of Health (DOH) may still have committed a crime if proven to have failed in properly disbursing its P67.32-billion COVID-19 funds. Former senator and Sorsogon Governor Francis 'Chiz' Escudero (MANILA...
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) said it has completed over half of the airport projects covered by its memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Department of Transportation (DOTr) for the period of 2015 to 2018. (Photo from CAAP Facebook page) The authority bared this detail as...
The Philippine International Trading Corporation (PITC) has failed to construct a hospital for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases despite receiving the funds for the project two years before the 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic struck. Research Institute for Tropical Medicine This was...
The Commission on Audit's (COA) observations on the Department of Health's (DOH) disbursement of COVID-19 funds should prompt the "right people" to act, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said on Friday, August 13. Senate President Vicente Sotto III delivers a speech in the opening of the third...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has blamed lapses in the performance of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) for the long delay in the distribution of over 10 million motorcycle and car plates worth P2.15 billion. Plate number This audit observation is contained in the 2020 annual audit report of the...
More adverse audit observations were revealed by the Commission on Audit in the handling of the Department of Health of billions of pesos in government funds and in the implementation of its projects even as audit disallowances and suspensions of various transactions have reached over P8.8 billion...
There will be "no sacred cow" if a government agency or official is found liable for any misuse of public funds, Malacañang declared Thursday after the Department of Health (DOH) came under fire over alleged mismanagement of pandemic-related funds. President Rodrigo Duterte presides over a...
Vice President Leni Robredo on Tuesday, August 12, lamented the P67 billion in misused and unspent funds that state auditors found in the Department of Health’s (DOH) COVID-19 response budget since the government keeps on saying it has no money to procure vaccines, provide cash aid, and pay...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Thursday pressed for a Senate inquiry into the Commission on Audit’s (COA) discovery of mismanagement in the Department of Health’s (DOH) handling of P67.32-billion worth of funds for COVID-19 pandemic response, saying the deluge of deficiencies that...
Senator Richard Gordon on Thursday said he is open to a possible Senate Blue Ribbon Committee investigation into the Commission on Audit’s (COA) report regarding the discrepancies it discovered in the Department of Health’s (DOH) handling of P67.32-billion worth of COVID-19 funds. Despite the...
Senator Grace Poe on Thursday, August 12, asked the Senate to investigate the reported deficiencies of the Department of Health (DOH) in spending its allocations for COVID-19 response. Senator Grace Poe (Senate PRIB) Following the release of the Commission on Audit's (COA) report, Poe filed a...
