DOH Secretary Francisco Duque III: “It hurts my family to be dragged in all sorts of innuendoes just because I have been a former PhilHealth President, Chairman, Board Member and now, again its Chairman.”
The DOH secretary even tagged the whistleblower, ex-PhilHealth anti-fraud officer Thorrsson Montes Keith, as a “very polluted source.”
“Accountability and transparency have been my guidepost in all my years in the public sector and I have tried to reform the institution. Even under the pandemic, we try our level best to get things done,” he added. the filing of graft charges against several regional vice presidents who Senator Richard Gordon tagged as the real members of the mafia.
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