“I have clarified this before the Blue Ribbon Committee last year, but I will repeat it to set the record straight: there is no such thing as a P154-billion loss,” Duque stressed. The Health secretary also pointed out that he is against corruption, as PhilHealth found itself embroiled in various allegations of anomalies in separate investigations of the Senate, House of Representatives, and the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission. “I would like to state for the record that I am for zero tolerance on fraud and corruption,” said Duque. He, likewise, assured that there were no funds released yet for the proposed P2.1 billion information technology project of PhilHealth supposedly designed to stem fraud and scams devised by corrupt personnel, as the project is still in the proposal stage. “On the allegations of the ‘palakasan system’ on the release of funds under IRM, we assure you that there is none,” he said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 18, 2020 03:33 UTC