The Department of Finance and the Department of Health are working together to roll out more health projects beyond those already funded in the 2024 national budget and the proposed 2025 budget, ensuring the overall welfare and health security of all Filipinos.
“It is our job at the DOF to find enough funds for the government’s expenses which amount to P15.8 billion per day this year. And one of the most important here is the health projects and programs that directly promote the welfare of every Filipino,” Finance Secretary Ralph Recto said.
“This includes providing more healthcare facilities, ensuring accessible access to them through better infrastructure, ensuring food security for all through boosting our agricultural productivity, giving economic opportunities for our people to increase their incomes and capacity to buy medicines and vitamins, and lifting more Filipinos out of poverty—because this ultimately breeds hunger and disease,” he said.
Among the projects on the table is the P14.31-billion Health Facilities Enhancement Program, which covers the provision of infrastructure, medical equipment, and transport vehicle support to local government units, DOH Hospitals, Centers for Health Development and other health facilities.
