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VIENTIANE, March 2 (Vientiane Times/ANN): The Laos Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF) in Laos will associate with the Ministry of Health (MOH) to conduct a feasibility study for the construction of a modern hospital each in the four southern provinces of Laos.
Representatives from the ministry and the EDCF gathered in Vientiane to discuss the feasibility study for the modern hospital construction project.
Via a video conference, they connected with a consulting team from the Republic of Korea.
The main objective of the project is providing a tertiary level hub hospital which is focused on improving quality of healthcare service and universal healthcare for southern provinces of Laos by establishing the following components;
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Philippines: Civil society condemns Panay massacre of Indigenous leaders resisting Jalaur Mega Dam; bank financing the dam responds Jalaur River
On December 30, 2020, Filipino police officers raided Indigenous villages within a military reservation camp in the central Philippines in search of alleged members of the outlawed New Peopleâs Army (NPA). During the raid, authorities attacked unarmed members of the Tumandok community while asleep, killing nine indigenous leaders and arresting at least seventeen other people. The operation displaced around 500 people from their homes.
Local groups deny affiliations to the NPA and claim that those who were killed had been red-tagged for their opposition to the ongoing construction of the Jalaur Mega Dam in the nearby municipality of Calinog. The project is financed by a
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The Department of Finance (DOF) is working on fresh loans from multilateral financial institutions, bilateral partners and domestic creditors to fund the government’s coronavirus response programs.
Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said they are now working to borrow $1.46 billion, or roughly P70 billion, from foreign or local sources to fund the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines that can inoculate at least 50 million Filipinos.
Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
The P70 billion forms part of the P82.5 billion budget required by the government to provide COVID-19 vaccines to inoculate adult Filipinos.
To date, the government already identified P12.5 billion, of which, P10 billion will come from the funds allocated for the COVID-19 vaccination program under the Bayanihan To Recover As One Act and P2.5 billion from the Department of Health 2021 budget.