Statements
-
Proposed health budget for 2026 is fatal to people’s health, push for 5% of GDP for health instead
Today, health advocates and health workers under the banner of the Coalition for People’s Right to Health (CPRH) decried the Marcos administration’s proposed P320.5-billion for health in 2026. The amount is a combination of the proposed budgets for the Department of Health, Philhealth, and government-owned and controlled corporation hospitals. CPRH cites the proposal as a…
-
State recognition and support for health workers’ rights is imperative to protect our right to health
The Coalition for People’s Right to Health fully supports Ms. Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, in her report to the Human Rights Council fifty-ninth session on health and care workers as defenders of the right to…
-
Free, comprehensive and progressive public health system is needed for healthy beginnings, hopeful futures – PHM-Philippines and CPRH
The World Health Organization celebrates World Health Day today, 7 April with the theme “Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures”. The People’s Health Movement Philippines and the Coalition for People’s Right to Health both assert that healthy beginnings and hopeful futures are founded on a public health care system that is free, comprehensive and progressive. Where systemic…
-
Pondo ng taumbayan, ibalik sa kalusugan
Mariing kinokondena ng Coalition for People’s Right to Health (CPRH) ang hakbangin ng gobyerno na ibalik sa kabang-yaman nito ang “excess funds” o diumano’y sobrang pondo ng Philhealth at ilagay ito sa unprogrammed appropriations na sa esensya ay pork barrel. Naninindigan ang CPRH na karumal-dumal na tawaging sobra ang pondong ito gayong naghihingalo ang pampublikong…
-
On the worsening rice crisis and its effects on people’s health
The Philippines has been living the irony of being an agricultural and agrarian country with 70% of its population are farmers and farm workers but the country remains the top importer of rice in the world [1]. Despite being a staple in every Filipino family’s table and Pres. Marcos Jr.’s promise of bringing the price…
-
Statement on the Supreme Court’s issuance of TRO on the transfer of P89.9B PhilHealth fund to the National Treasury
The Coalition for People’s Right to Health (CPRH) welcomes the Supreme Court’s decision to issue a temporary restraining order (TRO) on the transfer of P89.9 billion of PhilHealth funds to the national treasury. This would not be possible if not for the petitioners and the people’s collective struggle. The remaining P29.9 billion was set to…
-
Struggle for a Free, Comprehensive, State-Funded Health Care! Resist Foreign Impositions on Health! Demand for State Responsibility in People’s Health!
PRESS STATEMENT | April 7, 2024 2024 World Health Day:Struggle for a Free, Comprehensive, State-Funded Health Care! Resist Foreign Impositions on Health! Demand for State Responsibility in People’s Health! Mar Del Plata, Argentina — On the occasion of World Health Day 2024, and the opening of the 5th Peoples’ Health Assembly in Mar del Plata,…
-
CHD Statement on World Health Day 2024
Today, April 7, is World Health Day, in commemoration of the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948. On April 5, the Council for Health and Development together with other health organizations held a protest action in front of WHO Western Pacific Region office in Manila to reject the neoliberal policies imposed on…
-
Statement of the Council for Health and Development on the attack against Dr. Barroquillo
The Council for Health and Development, the national organization of more than 70 community-based health programs in the Philippines, strongly condemns another act of violence against a doctor on February 3, 2024 and enjoins the family, friends, colleagues, and patients in calling for justice and immediate investigation. Dr. Sharmaine Barroquillo, a physician working in Sultan…
-
Position paper on the health sector’s call to increase health budget for 2024
We, the Coalition for Health Budget Increase (CHBI), composed of unions, chapters and individual health workers in the public and private sectors, community-based health organizations, health professionals and students nationwide are deeply concerned on the proposed 2024 health budget. We are requesting your good office and committee to review and increase the minuscule allocation of…
Council for Health and Development (CHD) 