Davao council wants Duterte health agenda implemented in 200 days

FOLLOWING the launching of the Duterte Health Agenda early September, the Davao City Council will pass a resolution urging the city health office to implement the program.

In a regular session at the City Council on Tuesday, Davao City Councilor Mary Joselle Villafuerte, the city's chair on committee of health, pushed for the city to work on the Duterte Health Program.

The program is part of President Rodrigo Duterte's 10-point agenda and is geared to help the poorest Filipinos in the country.

Villafuerte said the City Health Office (CHO) should implement all programs recommended and presented by the President through Health Secretary Paulyn Jean Ubial last September 15 within 200 days.

The councilor also said the program was subtly neglected as national media failed to televise it due to a live streaming of the Senate hearing on extrajudicial killings.

The first goal of the program is for Filipinos to attain their best health outcomes, living longer in a healthy age with few illnesses and preventing premature deaths from the scourges of stressful daily living and emerging public health threats like drug addiction and Zika infection, the health secretary said during the launching of the program on September 15.

The second goal centers on ensuring that all Filipinos, particularly the poorest of the poor, will gain freedom from high costs of medical care, prevent financial ruin and to be liberated from profit-oriented health services, Villafuerte added.

The third goal is for all Filipinos to have satisfactory experience when they access health services, where they feel respected and valued and finally become in charge of their own health care.

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