Post from Krizette Laureta Chu
Do you hear the people tweet?
Tweeting the tweets of the pa wokes?
It is the hashtag of people
Who will not be in power again
When the tweeting of your heart
Are only 3,000 hashtags
They want to rule the Philippines
because they have 3,000 hashtaaaaags
Will you join in their crusade?
Parang awa na ninyo...
Dagdagan nyo ang hashtag
Para #LetLeniLead (o ayan dagdag na)...
Post from Tio Moreno
I saw this photo retweeted by Senator Kiko ‘Matsing’ Pangilinan with the caption:
“Heto ang resulta at kagagawan ng walang paki, walang awa at walang kwenta.”
I’m so sorry to hear about their story, but I have some serious questions Senator:
1. Bakit sila sabay-sabay lumabas na naka wheelchair?
2. Diba balik MECQ kayo, PWDs are not allowed to hold an FM Pass, right?
3. Ano ba purpose nila when they traveled from Tarlac to Rizal?
4. You have cars, did you send one to help them out travel back and forth?
5. Senator ka, part ka ng gobyerno, since wala ka ring ginawa, so pasok ka sa qualification na walang paki, walang awa, at walang kwenta?
We really need to reform the system na talaga #OUSTKIKO
Post from Tio Moreno
PhilHealth’s ‘alarming corruption’ was first spotted in 2015.
Let’s have a throwback👌🏼
There are alleged unauthorized bonuses PhilHealth released to employees in 2009, 2010, and 2014 with the amount of P163.85M.
“Ghost pneumonia” patients were uncovered in 2015 following the report that Pneumonia is the top health condition PhilHealth paid in 2014. Out of 78B total benefit payment that year, it has accumulated 7.6B.
You, Risa Hontiveros, took the office in 2014 and became a member of the PhilHealth board until October 2015.
What did you do to clean the agency? Tulog ka sa mga panahong iyon? You’re right though, dapat panagutin yong mga napatunayang tiwali. Nakatatawa lang dahil tahimik mo noon, dami mong kuda ngayon tungkol sa kurapsyon.
It was only last year when fraudulent schemes that led to at least P154 billion (US$2.94 billion) losses in PhilHealth that were uncovered. This goes with dead patients undergoing kidney dialysis, ghost patients getting cancer treatments, and fake members.
Case in point: One patient from Quezon City was getting free dialysis, but even after she died in 2016, PhilHealth continued paying the rest of the dialysis. Sana all! 🙄
Who was the president during this time? PNoy, right? What did he do to fight the corruption inside PhilHealth? Wala. Puro pakipot para magmukhang disente.
To be honest it’s only Duterte who had the courage to order the arrest of the dialysis center owners for “ghost” kidney treatments and reorganize PhilHealth leadership in 2019.
Despite his effort to clean the system, corruption is undeniably present. Haaaays PhilHealth, because of you, I am now saving money to buy two sets of laptops— with one amounting to P4.11 million, while another is worth P115.32 million. 🤷🏻♂️
Those people who are blaming Duterte for the 15B amount stolen are truly out of their minds. It’s either you are blaming him because you are UNINFORMED or you are blaming him because isa kang BUGOK na pa woke.
PS: In 2007 Congressional hearing, the Vice President of Health Finance Policy testified that since 1995 PhilHealth had lost as much as 4B due to fraudulent claims. What I’m pertaining to the ‘alarming corruption’ in 2015 is about the ghost pneumonia patients because it’s where the biggest chunk of money went off.
Post from Tio Moreno
We #ExplainExplainExplain:
Of the 38,075 recoveries reported today, 909 were based on Regional Epidemiology & Surveillance Unit (RESU) updates and 37,166 was part of the time-based tagging methodology (cases with mild disease or asymptomatic whose date of onset of illness or specimen collection was more than 14 days ago and shall be tagged as recovered as per DOH DM 2020-0258) from the enhanced data reconciliation efforts with local government units.
The same reconciliation effort also explains the 3,954 new cases reported today, of which 1,320 cases are fresh cases, and 2,634 are late cases. Of the newly reported cases, 3,801 (96%) occurred in July, of which, 1,602 (42%) were from NCR and 955 (25%) from Region 7.
Of the 23 deaths, 19 (83%) in July, 3 (13%) in June, and 1 (4%) in April. Deaths were from NCR (12 or 52%), Region 7 (8 or 35%), Region 3 (1 or 4%), and Region 4A (1 or 4%); 1 case (4%) had an unspecified region.
There were sixty-six (66) duplicates that were removed from the total case count. Of these, six (6) recovered cases and two (2) deaths have been removed.
Moreover, one (1) case that was previously reported to have recovered has been validated to have died and already included in the count of new deaths.
These numbers undergo constant cleaning and validation.
Reference with WHO’s policy:
Post from Tio Moreno
Friend, everything takes time. We had a global shortage of PPEs and test kits because of most of the country around the world demand for it.
Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19
Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19
Post by Tio Moreno
Since March and as of June 20, the Philippine Government has procured and distributed the following:
- Coveralls: 1,685,661
- Face masks: 9,287,550
- Gowns: 1,644,123
- KN95 masks: 1,629,640
- N95 masks: 459,024
- Face shield: 1,107,011
- Gloves: 3,607,470
- Goggles: 940,623
- Non-invasive ventilators: 74
- Head caps: 1,744,855
- Thermal Scanners: 3,066
- Aprons: 742,600
- Sanitation tents: 10
Also, this figure has changed now due to demand. Dumami kasi number of cases lalo na sa NCR 🙄
Post from Tio Moreno
- Not true.
- The Balik Probinsya program of Senator Bong Go is a long term policy program. This is a program for urban residents who wish to have a renewed life in the regions.
- It should not be mistaken for the Hatid Tulong program for locally stranded individuals or LSI. These are stranded OFWs, students, laborers, tourists, and the like.
- Proper measures were undertaken to ensure the stop of the spread of the virus. Prior to the LSI returning back to their provinces, they undertake tests and are given health, quarantine, and police clearances.
***There are reported cases of LSIs who were tested positive, but is the government to be blamed on this? No! What should be done for them? Let them stay in their boarding houses? Don’t you want them to see their families?
If LSIs who just traveled from one place to another were found out positive, how much more those who protested or yong iba pang pagtitipon? May Sonagkaisa pa kayong nalalaman 🙄
Hindi pwede e call out mga nagrarrally pero e call out ang mga LSIs? Tangina niyo!
If you have better solutions for those LSIs then lay it down. Wag puro sisi sa gobyerno.
Post from Tio Moreno
Friend, logistics takes time, procurement takes time, the test takes time.
We need an RT-PCR test that requires Biosafety level 2 labs. In February, we only had 1 Biosafety level two lab that’s capable of handling 250 tests per day. If you are so aggressive to say that we need to build more laboratories, please understand that it’s not easy as ordering an item from Shopee, Amazon, or Lazada.
The lab needs to have at least three rooms: virus inactivation, reagent preparation, and the PCR machine room. And there are 5 stages of validation required by DOH. Stage 1 includes a 133-item self-assessment checklist; Stage 2 includes an on-site visit by the DOH, the RITM, and the World Health Organization (WHO). Stage 3 includes a three-day personnel training session at RITM; By Stages 4 and 5, RITM re-tests five samples tested by the lab to confirm if they arrive at the same results, after which they will be certified.
Good thing that we already had 28 testing labs as of May. So if 1 lab can cater 250 tests, that means 28 labs can cater to 7000 tests per day. But is it enough for Targeted Testing? No. Hence, our government has worked to increase the capacity of targeted testing to 30,000/ day.
Post from Tio Moreno
- We have not taken out any loans yet because of COVID-19.
- There is no other country in the world that is debt-free. Economic powerhouses have debts that are bigger than their GDP.
- Our foreign loans are much smaller now compared to the time of President Aquino.
- Our China loans are minuscule compared to our loans from Japan, Korea, and other institutions.
- Again, no country can survive without credit.
Post by Tio Moreno
- The National Government has embarked on the biggest social financial aid program in history.
- DSWD: Social Amelioration Program
- DTI: Loans to MSMEs, a moratorium on rentals
- DOLE: TUPAD and CAMP
- DOF: Small Business Wage Subsidy, a moratorium on loan payments
- DA: Loans to the agricultural sector
Post by Tio Moreno
- No other country in the world has done mass testing. We target testing those who are vulnerable, immunocompromised, the ones coming from overseas.
- Our testing capacity is already at 32,000 tests per day.
- As of June 21, we have conducted 594,499 tests already of which 6.9% were positive of COVID-19.
- 46 RT-PCR laboratories
- 17 licensed gen expert labs
