Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said Wednesday officials of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) who were tagged in alleged anomalies at the agency should take a leave to stop them from having access to important documents that could shed light in the ongoing legislative probe.
Drilon made the appeal a day after the second hearing of the Senate Committee of the Whole on alleged irregularities in the PhilHealth Interim Reimbursement Mechanism and the allegedly overpriced Information Technology program of the agency.
“The best thing that can happen is that people named should go on leave while all these investigations are ongoing,” he added. “I must state and warn that at this stage that the officials involved in the IRM could be liable for violation of the anti-graft law,” Drilon stressed. “The CoA said it has been four months and up to now there is no liquidation. The way the IRM is implemented, favoritism is very clear, giving advantage to some regions while denying the same privilege to other regions.”
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