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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Go DID NOT remove Robredo, Duque from office

By VERA Files | Sep 09, 2021 10:15 AM

Robredo does not hold any Cabinet post from which she can be removed. In the case of Duque, Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go only advised him during a Senate blue ribbon committee hearing to address the findings of the Commission on Audit on the “deficiencies” in the Department of Health’s (DOH) handling of the pandemic.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: No, Duque is NOT going to jail over the COA-flagged P67B DOH funds

By VERA Files | Sep 06, 2021 10:50 AM

There is no report of any imprisonment as there are no cases filed against the health secretary, although the Senate blue ribbon committee and the House committee on public accounts began last month separate inquiries into the DOH’s handling of COVID-19 multi-billion funds following a recent Commission on Audit (COA) report flagging “deficiencies” in the agency’s pandemic budget.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte nag-aalangan kung tatanggihan o tatanggapin ang pagbibitiw ni Duque

By VERA Files | Sep 03, 2021 10:54 PM

Tila hindi makapagdesisyon si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte kung ano ang gagawin kay Health Secretary Francisco Duque sa gitna ng mga panawagan na magbitiw ang kalihim dahil sa napag-alamang kakulangan sa dokumentasyon ng Department of Health (DOH) tungkol sa higit P67 bilyong pondo para sa COVID-19.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte wavers between rejecting or accepting Duque’s resignation

By VERA Files | Sep 03, 2021 10:04 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte cannot seem to make up his mind on what to do with Health Secretary Francisco Duque’s stay in the Cabinet amid calls for the latter’s resignation over deficiencies in the Department of Health’s (DOH) documentation of more than P67 billion of COVID-19 funds.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Doc Willie Ong will NOT REPLACE Duque as Health Secretary

By VERA Files | Aug 25, 2021 11:46 AM

Before and after the dubious video was posted on Aug. 19, President Rodrigo Duterte had declared full support for Duque amid calls for his resignation. During his weekly briefing on Monday night (Aug. 23), the president reiterated he would not ask his health secretary to quit, but would accept his resignation if he did so voluntarily. There has been no word from Duque since.

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Commentary

Will CoA report give Duterte reason to fire Duque?

By Tita C. Valderama | Aug 16, 2021 2:27 PM

The Department of Health’s deficiencies in spending P67.32 billion of COVID-19 response funds, as flagged by the Commission on Audit, bring to mind incidents when President Rodrigo Duterte aired his displeasure with the CoA’s stringent auditing measures.

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The ties that bind: The Duterte-Duque connection

By Miguel Paolo P. Reyes | Aug 15, 2020 8:39 AM

The country’s health chief has dodged so many controversies that one of at least 14 senators who have called for his resignation wondered aloud what amulet he has that President Rodrigo Duterte just can’t seem to fire him.

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