{"id":232535,"date":"2019-09-26T22:33:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T02:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=232535"},"modified":"2019-09-26T22:33:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T02:33:19","slug":"binay-wants-higher-budget-for-disease-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/26\/binay-wants-higher-budget-for-disease-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Binay wants higher budget for disease monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_143222\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143222\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nancy-Binay-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-143222\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nancy-Binay-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nancy-Binay-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nancy-Binay-1-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Nancy-Binay-1-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-143222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Binay said she will ask the support of her colleagues at the Senate to augment RITM\u2019s allocation for environmental surveillance to PHP248 million. (FIle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SenatorNancyBinay\/photos\/a.733737050010649.1073741901.509834572400899\/1725905787460432\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SenatorNancyBinay\/\">Nancy Binay\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Senator Nancy Binay on Thursday pushed for an increase in the 2020 budget of the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) to address vaccine-related diseases such as polio and measles.<\/p>\n<p>Binay said she will ask the support of her colleagues at the Senate to augment RITM\u2019s allocation for environmental surveillance to PHP248 million.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that the research arm\u2019s budget for surveillance has been slashed from PHP198 million in 2019 to PHP118 million for 2020, describing the budget cut as &#8220;untimely and unsound&#8221; given that besides the polio outbreak, cases of diphtheria are now reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Huwag nating hintayin na may dumating pang bagong epidemya, pero hindi natin ito malalaman kung tatanggalan natin ang<\/em>\u00a0RITM\u00a0<em>ng suporta para sa kaukulang<\/em>\u00a0surveillance (Let\u2019s not wait for the next epidemic to come. We won\u2019t know about this if we remove RITM\u2019s funding support for such surveillance.),\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that cutting their budget is both an untimely and unsound decision,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Binay argued that RITM&#8217;s budget should be raised as a whole to increase its pool of researchers and experts, and to provide the necessary training for its more than 1,000 personnel particularly specialists, and medical scientists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Community surveillance is essential lalo<em>\u00a0na sa mga<\/em>\u00a0high-risk areas\u00a0<em>na maaaring panggalingan ng mga nakakahawang sakit<\/em>\u00a0(Community surveillance is essential especially in high-risk areas for infectious diseases),\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Malaking tulong din ang mga<\/em>\u00a0barangay health workers<em>\u00a0kasi sila ang<\/em>\u00a0first link of the surveillance chain\u00a0<em>partikular sa mga<\/em>\u00a0depressed areas (Barangay health workers play a huge role as the first link of the surveillance chain, particularly in depressed areas),\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Senator Nancy Binay on Thursday pushed for an increase in the 2020 budget of the Research Institute for Tropical &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":143222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232535","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=232535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232536,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232535\/revisions\/232536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}