Press Release
August 22, 2020

On Sec. Duque's Claim that the COVID-19 Pandemic is a Blessing in Disguise

More at: https://pinglacson.net/2020/08/22/on-sec-duques-claim-that-the-covid-19-pandemic-is-a-blessing-in-disguise/

Some people are definitely making a killing out of the misery brought upon our people by the coronavirus, coming as it does in many forms we cannot even imagine.

We have seen the PhilHealth's illegal advance payments to unauthorized health care institutions and grossly overpriced procurement of IT equipment - not to mention its doctoring of financial records.

At the Department of Health, we continue to be confronted by issues we hate to hear, but which we now know anyway - the DOH's "double-the-price" purchases of PPEs and face masks and probably even face shields.

Yet, as we hear the Secretary of Health saying that the pandemic is a "blessing in disguise," we know for sure we haven't seen the worse for our suffering countrymen, in terms of health and economic well-being.

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