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Pork is a political, not a developmental tool

by Yvonne T. Chua and Booma B. Cruz

IN 2001, 108 congressmen gave P162 million of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) — considered as the “main” pork-barrel allocation — for medical assistance to their constituents through the Department of Health and various government hospitals. The Philippine General Hospital, the country’s biggest state hospital, received P30.8 million.

Read more… | Posted Monday, September 6th, 2004