A bill filed in the House of Representatives sought to put in place a network of labs capable of detecting, handling and preventing deadly viruses. | ttorejasINQ
Garcia said his bill takes its cue from the evaluation by the World Health Organization of the Philippines’ Internal Health Regulations 2005 and consultations with public health experts. IHR serves as legal framework for global health security, according to WHO in a September 2018 report.
It also said governments must “further optimize the public health emergency preparedness and response action at regional and local levels” by investing in “advocacy, guidance, training and exercising” and improve cooperation in national and sub-national levels. But he said there was a need to establish a “separate institution attached to the DOH.” This, he said, is “clearly the way forward in building the capacity and level of readiness of the government.”
Public health emergencies that would be addressed “could be chemical, biological, radioactive or nuclear in nature,” the bill said.According to Garcia, some countries showed greater success in handling COVID-19 cases by setting up an agency “dedicated solely to disease prevention and monitoring.”
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