MANILA, Philippines — “Now is the time to act,” Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go said on Thursday, May 20, in his sponsorship speech of 15 bills proposing the upgrading of certain public hospitals, the renationalizing of some, and the construction of new ones to improve the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
To further drive home the urgency of his call, Go issued a statement on Tuesday summarizing the key points of that speech and the one he delivered a day before, on Wednesday, on the same bills.
“We are in the middle of a pandemic,” he stressed, speaking in Filipino, in his Thursday speech.
“The bills approved by the lower house are already here, in our hands her…
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