{"id":987522122,"date":"2021-03-23T03:12:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T02:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/health-getting-mere-1-of-2021-national-budget-for-infrastructure-recto\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:38:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:38:34","slug":"health-getting-mere-1-of-2021-national-budget-for-infrastructure-recto","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/health-getting-mere-1-of-2021-national-budget-for-infrastructure-recto\/","title":{"rendered":"Health getting mere 1% of 2021 national budget for infrastructure \u2013 Recto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto on Wednesday scored the \u201cbiggest factory defect\u201d in the proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbm.gov.ph\/index.php\/secretary-s-corner\/press-releases\/list-of-press-releases\/1778-prrd-signs-the-p4-506-trillion-national-budget-for-fy-2021#:~:text=President%20Rodrigo%20Roa%20Duterte%20today,to%20the%20COVID%2D19%20pandemic.\">P4.5-trillion 2021 national budget<\/a>, citing how health infrastructure would be getting only a \u201cmicroscopic\u201d 1 percent share of total spending for government infrastructure amid the prevailing coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed dismay that in the proposed P1.1-trillion spending for capital outlay next year, only P11.4 billion is allotted for health infrastructure in the 2021 general appropriations bill.<\/p>\n<p>Recto also pointed out that the proposed 2021 budget did not include funds for a sustained contact tracing for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Recto said the <a href=\"https:\/\/asia.fes.de\/news\/philippines-covid-19-as-a-public-health-crisis\">COVID-19 crisis<\/a> had put the country\u2019s health system to a \u201cstress test,\u201d whose results \u201care not good\u201d and should have prompted the government to ramp up health spending.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/1362420\/health-getting-mere-1-of-2021-natl-budget-for-infra-recto\">Click here<\/a> to read more.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/explore\/india-stock-assets-0221?kw=shutterstock&amp;c3apidt=p15797996695&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwo-aCBhC-ARIsAAkNQisYDRLu7ii0nCRqiYAO1jqIbXJUjjAJ-mQVsxt5x1t1IqSbFpRshXcaAheoEALw_wcB&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds\">Shutterstock<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say about the health spending in this year&#8217;s budget? Please let us know in the comments section below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto on Wednesday scored the \u201cbiggest factory defect\u201d in the proposed P4.5-trillion 2021 national budget, citing how health infrastructure would be getting only a \u201cmicroscopic\u201d 1 percent share of total spending for government infrastructure amid the prevailing coronavirus pandemic. He expressed dismay that in the proposed P1.1-trillion spending for capital&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987531782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124,128,131],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987522122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987531782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987522122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987522122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987522122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}