December 27, 2022 | 7:46 pmA SENATOR on Tuesday reiterated the urgency of creating a disease prevention and control center to ensure a stronger response against public health emergencies in the future.
A counterpart bill in the House of Representatives, numbered 6522 and titled Philippine Centers for Disease Prevention and Control Act, was approved on final reading on Dec. 12.
It is also mandated to assess and support local government units in preventing communicable diseases, and determine whether to declare a public health emergency an epidemic. The center will be an attached agency of the Health department, and will be composed of the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Disease Prevention and Control Bureau, Epidemiology Bureau, Health Emergency Management Bureau, Bureau of Quarantine, and Health Promotion and Communication Service.
The fate of the hapless unpaid vaccinators is invisible to the eyes of law makers trying to further inflate the bureacracy on a grandstanding hunch....