Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Ted Herbosa says he is "embarrassed as a Filipino" whenever he compares Philippine health statistics to that of the country’s neighbors in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
During the DOH's 2024 budget deliberation before the House Committee on Appropriations Wednesday, Sept. 6, Baguio lone district Rep. Mark Go asked Herbosa about the department's vision for the year 2040 in terms of health performance indicators. (Video Courtesy of House of Representatives)
READ: https://mb.com.ph/2023/9/6/nahihiya-ako-herbosa-says-ph-being-outperformed-in-asean-based-on-health-indicators
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During the DOH's 2024 budget deliberation before the House Committee on Appropriations Wednesday, Sept. 6, Baguio lone district Rep. Mark Go asked Herbosa about the department's vision for the year 2040 in terms of health performance indicators. (Video Courtesy of House of Representatives)
READ: https://mb.com.ph/2023/9/6/nahihiya-ako-herbosa-says-ph-being-outperformed-in-asean-based-on-health-indicators
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00:00 Yes, we are now classified as a middle-income country and by 2040 we'll probably be labeled
00:08 as a high middle-income country.
00:11 But our health statistics has remained flat from low middle-income.
00:15 In fact, our neighbors, ASEAN neighbors, I will compare ASEAN.
00:20 Our infant mortality is steady, but for them, it has gone down.
00:30 Maternal mortality is also the same.
00:33 We are steady.
00:34 It goes down, we are going down, but our neighbors are overtaking us.
00:39 I feel a bit ashamed as a Filipino that our Thai, Vietnamese, and Indonesian neighbors
00:45 are overtaking us in parameters for health.
00:48 So, very important that we continue based on our level of economy.
00:54 Because we are expected by other countries that our economy is good, our populations
01:00 should be healthy.
01:01 Longer lifespan, lower infant mortality, high vaccination rates, and no deaths of vaccine-preventable
01:12 diseases, no outbreaks.
01:14 We are flat, we really need to do more so that our health indices will continue to improve.
01:20 Thank you.
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