SECTOR: Social Services
SONA YEAR: 2022
Create new rural health units and clinics
PROMISE STATUS - DATE: In progress as of 07/17/2023
- Three bills in Congress providing the assignment of at least one nurse in every barangay are pending at the committee level. Five bills in the House and two in the Senate providing for a dental unit in every rural, city or municipal health unit are also pending at the committee level.
- VERA Files requested data from the DOH on the number of rural health units and clinics established since July 2022, but it has yet to receive a response as of publishing.