MANILA, Philippines — Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Tuesday advised health officials to be “very careful” with their pronouncements on pandemic-related issues, saying they could be “misunderstood.”
“Perhaps it is best that when the Department of Health or officials of the Department of Health make statements, it’s best that you clear it with the Secretary of Health,” Sotto said during the Senate’s plenary session.
“Kung minsan ‘yung mga nasasabi natin, nung ibang mga bureaus under the Department of Health, it is misunderstood, it is misinterpreted,” he added.
According to Sotto, it would be best if the health chief would be the one to make pronouncements on “very criti…
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