By Prince Golez
President Rodrigo Duterte is pushing for free coronavirus (Covid-19) testing in government testing facilities.
On Monday, Duterte lamented that tests for Covid-19 are expensive.
The government recently set a price ceiling on swab tests at P3,800 in public facilities, and P4,500 to P5,000 in privately-owned laboratories.
“Is there a way that we can spend for all of this testing? Makabili tayo, makamura tayo, kung may pera pa maghanap tayo so that it is actually to me the sacred duty of government to protect its citizens,” he told Health Secretary Francisco Duque III during the weekly meeting of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases.
The President also asked Duque to create a program that can give free testing for the virus.
“Tingnan ko kung may pera at magbili na lang tayo and in all government hospitals or in health centers, mabigay natin libre. Free of charge. Target the first or second quarter,” Duterte concluded.
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