Probe on PhilHealth to proceed despite officers’ health condition

MALACAÑANG on Sunday, August 9, 2020, said the investigation into allegations of corruption in the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation will proceed despite the medical condition of its top executive officers.

The Senate has convened into a committee of the whole to look into the allegation that PhilHealth officials have stolen some P15 billion in funds from the state-owned insurance firm. Another hearing has been set for Tuesday, August 11. “As far as the Executive is concerned, the task force organized by the Department of Justice, upon the instruction of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, will proceed in its mandate to investigate on the various allegations of corruption in PhilHealth, including the audit of PhilHealth finances and the conduct of lifestyle checks on its officials and employees, and if warranted, to recommend the preventive suspension on any official to ensure that the probe of the task force would be unhampered,”...

President Duterte had ordered the Department of Justice to create a task force that will investigate PhilHealth transactions and conduct a lifestyle check on its executive officers.

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