{"id":126488,"date":"2017-10-25T02:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T06:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=126488"},"modified":"2017-10-25T02:54:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T06:54:00","slug":"wheelchairs-found-in-philpost-await-delivery-doh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/25\/wheelchairs-found-in-philpost-await-delivery-doh\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheelchairs found in PhilPost await delivery: DOH"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_126496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126496\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10920632576_7b2a313af0_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126496\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10920632576_7b2a313af0_z.jpg\" alt=\"In a press statement, the DOH said the wheelchairs at the PhilPost warehouse were the remaining units that would be delivered to health facilities in the provinces of Catanduanes and Masbate in the Bicol region. (Photo by U.S. Embassy, Jakarta\/Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10920632576_7b2a313af0_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10920632576_7b2a313af0_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-126496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a press statement, the DOH said the wheelchairs at the PhilPost warehouse were the remaining units that would be delivered to health facilities in the provinces of Catanduanes and Masbate in the Bicol region. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/usembassyjakarta\/10920632576\/in\/photolist-fgjUDZ-hD26Ay\" target=\"_blank\">Photo<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/usembassyjakarta\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Embassy, Jakarta\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\">CC BY-ND 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong> \u2014 The Department of Health (DOH) has clarified a news report on \u201cdozens of wheelchairs (that) were found dumped\u201d by the department at the Philippine Postal Corp. (PhilPost) office in Quezon City.<\/p>\n<p>In a press statement, the DOH said the wheelchairs at the PhilPost warehouse were the remaining units that would be delivered to health facilities in the provinces of Catanduanes and Masbate in the Bicol region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DOH is due to deliver these wheelchairs &#8212; 88 units for Virac, Catanduanes and 312 units for Masbate &#8212; on Oct. 25,&#8221; the DOH said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir Provincial Health Offices cited their limited storage space and requested for temporary holding at the Post office, thus delaying the delivery of the courier service providers hired by the DOH,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>In an online report released last Sunday, a \u201cconcerned citizen\u201d saw the wheelchairs \u201cmoldering in the PhilPost\u201d office along NIA Road.<\/p>\n<p>The concerned citizen said that according to a guard, the wheelchairs were brought to PhilPost by the DOH as it lacked space in its office.<\/p>\n<p>In its statement, the department cited a PhilPost report that the supposedly damaged wheelchairs were not actually damaged but were removed from their boxes \u201cwhen they were soaked due to leakage from their ceiling\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of them were already transferred to another location for cleaning before delivery,\u201d the DOH said, assuring that it was doing its best to ensure that \u201cno single centavo of the people\u2019s taxes is wasted&#8221;.\u00a0<em><strong>(PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 The Department of Health (DOH) has clarified a news report on \u201cdozens of wheelchairs (that) were found dumped\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":126496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[18676,29495,29494],"class_list":["post-126488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-department-of-health-doh","tag-philippine-postal-corp-philpost","tag-wheelchairs","mauthors-leilani-junio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}