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Holding back: Media split on covering Bong Go s poor performance in Senate

Holding back: Media split on covering Bong Go s poor performance in Senate CMFR 31 May 2021, 16:13 GMT+10 LAST MAY 20 and 25, neophyte Senator Christopher Bong Go struggled to answer veteran politician and Minority Floor Leader Franklin Drilon s questions about Go s proposed bills to increase bed capacities and to re-nationalize hospitals. Some reports noted Go s faltering performance, the kind of coverage Go has not quite gotten from the media. Other news organizations stuck to their PR-type coverage of Go, or cited officials who favored him. Go s legislative capacity As chair of the Senate committee on health and demography, Go sponsored 15 bills to increase the bed capacities of several hospitals nationwide. During a plenary session on May 20, he failed to mention that two of the bills would also return control of two provincial hospitals - Benguet General Hospital and Lanao del Norte Provincial Hospital to the national government.

Romualdez urges health execs to back COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver

By ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News Published May 7, 2021 1:57pm House Majority Leader Martin Romualdez on Friday urged Philippine health officials to monitor and actively participate in the global discussions on growing calls for a COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver. Let us be proactive and engage vaccine manufacturers in negotiations on how to avail of these patents for the Philippines. Procrastination in the time of crisis is unacceptable, Romualdez said in a statement. He praised the United States government for supporting international efforts to suspend intellectual property protection rules for COVID-19 vaccines. Waiving intellectual property protections for vaccines during pandemic is not only morally right, the Leyte representative said.

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