Abolishing the government research unit, which was at the core of the Philippines’ response to the Covid-19 pandemic, “is not the intention, the objective, the letter, or even the execution of the law.”
Albay 2nd District Rep. and House Ways and Means chair Joey Salceda on Sunday, Nov. 27, assured workers at the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine that there would be no abolition or layoffs there even after the country’s establishment of its own Center for Disease Control inches closer to becoming law.
The lawmaker gave the reassurance after workers in the RITM protested recently about possible layoffs with the creation of the CDC. “The RITM is, and will continue to be, its own research center with a hospital, a testing center, the country’s central reference laboratory, and will continue to perform its existing role over many diseases, including perennial ones like tuberculosis and malaria,” he furthered.
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