Over P200 million worth of donated medicines, hospital supplies and equipment, including face masks, face shields and personal protective equipment (PPE)received by the Lung Center of the Philippines to improve its bid to address the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic have been wasted or...
Senator Grace Poe has asked the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to expedite its payment to public and private hospitals and avoid unnecessary and delaying procedures that affect the operations of healthcare institutions. Senator Grace Poe (Office of Sen. Grace Poe/MANILA...
At least 80 informal settler families who were relocated to a housing project in San Jose Del Monte are in danger of eviction for being unable to pay rental fees that have ballooned to P134,768,297. This was gathered in the 2020 annual audit report of the North Luzon Railways Corporation...
A total 127 doctors rendering consultancy service at National Kidney Transplant Institute owe the state-run specialty hospital various amounts in rental payments for clinic spaces they are occupying. The Commission on Audit said nearly P20 million in rental cost and electricity and water bills have...
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez was the highest paid member of the Duterte Cabinet last year, earning a total P4,943,153,.68 in 2020 or P301,389.76 more than what he took home a year before. Despite topping the Cabinet list, Dominguez still ranked 146th among the top earners in government led by...
The Department of Energy and state-run Philippine National Oil Company-Exploration Corporation (PNOC-EC) have collaboratively called for greater inflow of investments in the country’s upstream petroleum sector if the Philippines would really have to cement its energy security pathway....
The Commission on Audit (COA) has questioned the Davao City government’s assets amounting to more than P9.48 billion or 40 percent of its total assets recorded as of Dec. 31, 2020 as well as its millions of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) disbursements last year. COA (Manila Bulletin File Photo)...
Senator Risa Hontiveros has filed a measure urging the Commission on Audit (COA) to conduct a special audit of the government’s spending for its coronavirus disease (COVID-19) response under the two laws Congress passed to combat the negative impact of the pandemic. In filing Senate Resolution...
The Philippine Heart Center’s (PHC) claims filed in 2020 totaling P71.17 million have been denied by the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) due to government hospital’s purported failure to comply with the provisions of the Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of...
The Commission on Audit has affirmed the accountability of 18 Commission on Elections (Comelec) officials after making false travel expense claims valued up to P8.265 million in 2008 and 2009. (COA / MANILA BULLETIN) The COA en banc affirmed the 2014 decision of its National Goverment...
The Philippine National Railways (PNR) canceled its P921 million contract with Chinese firm CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd. for the acquisition of new trains after the Commission on Audit (COA) questioned its procurement and plans to conduct a re-bidding. "The PNR Board decided to cancel the...
Former employees of state-run National Power Corporation (NPC) who were retrenched due to its privatization roughly two decades ago will finally get their back wages, as underpinned by a Supreme Court ruling on the Drivers and Mechanics Association (DAMA) case; that was also subsequently affirmed...
