{"id":252747,"date":"2020-04-21T03:13:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T07:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=252747"},"modified":"2020-04-21T03:13:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T07:13:22","slug":"neda-icc-approves-dohs-p5-b-covid-19-emergency-response-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/21\/neda-icc-approves-dohs-p5-b-covid-19-emergency-response-project\/","title":{"rendered":"NEDA-ICC approves DOH’s P5-B Covid-19 emergency response project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte updates the nation on the government’s efforts in addressing the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Malago Clubhouse in Malaca\u00f1ang on April 6, 2020. ACE MORANDANTE\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The National Economic and Development Authority\u2019s (NEDA) Investment Coordination Committee (ICC) has approved a PHP5.09-billion project to fund the Department of Health\u2019s (DOH) emergency response against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic.<\/p>\n

This was disclosed in President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s fourth weekly report submitted to Congress on his use of additional powers in dealing with the health crisis.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the emergency response project would cover the establishment of testing and patient care centers at six major international airports in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.<\/p>\n

It would finance the construction of 21 first-line decontamination facilities at international airports in selected areas across the country.<\/p>\n

Negative pressure isolation rooms shall be installed in 70 DOH hospitals and 85 provincial public hospitals across the country.<\/p>\n

The DOH project also includes equipping national laboratories and sub-national public health laboratories to handle Covid-19 cases across the country; setting up 450 isolation tents; and providing personal protective equipment, Covid-19 test kits, diagnostic and life support equipment, and ambulances.<\/p>\n

The ICC consists of the Finance Secretary and NEDA Director-General as co-chairpersons; and the Executive Secretary, the Secretaries of Agriculture, Trade and Industry, Budget and Management, and the Governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas as members.<\/p>\n

Under the \u201cBayanihan to Heal as One” law, the executive department must submit a weekly report to Congress, every Monday, detailing how the President used his special powers to address Covid-19.<\/p>\n

The report must include the amount and corresponding utilization of funds used, augmented, reprogrammed, reallocated, and realigned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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