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August 11, 2020

Risa wants appearance of Health Sec. Duque in PhilHealth probe: Risa wants appearance of Health Sec. Duque in PhilHealth probe: Sen. Risa Hontiveros, during Tuesday’s Committee of the Whole hybrid hearing, August 11, 2020, says Health Secretary Francisco Duque III should show up at the Senate inquiry looking into the “serious, disgusting” allegations of corruption at the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) amid the largest health crisis in the country. Hontiveros asked the panel why Duque would remain unscathed from the alleged PhilHealth anomalies when he remains as president, chairman of the board and board member from 2001 to the present or for almost two decades. “It is only Secretary Duque who has institutional memory in the PhilHealth leadership... Secretary Duque should not keep silent in this mess. I believe this is a systematic corruption in the agency involving billions of pesos,” Hontiveros said. (Screen grab/Senate PRIB)

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