News From the Philippines 28th April 2024. News related to 27th Feb 2024 Joint Committee Hearing. Cardiac disease in young person. WHO IHRs relevance to Philippines being questioned.
Businesses required provide cancer screening for employees. Filipinos offered up for participation in clinical trials.
Rumble link for 27th February Philippines House of Representatives joint committee hearing where the topics were WHO IRHs, Humans Rights Violations During the Pandemic, Excess Deaths, and Janssen Hot Lots. This hearing has spurred some of the news articles shared in the stack!
Justice Secretary Remulla, 62, is experiencing slow recovery and immune system issues after his heart bypass last year. He is still committed to serving the Philippines and says he can manage his condition.
House to ask the WHO for clarifications on the IHRs. During the joint committee hearing (Committee on Public Health and Safety and Committee on Human Rights) into excess deaths the topic of the WHO, the IHR amendments and whether they infringe Filipino Sovereignty was raised. DOH couldn’t seem to identify which party was responsible and answerable on what was happening with regards to the Philippines stance. The DOH were given two weeks to respond to the Committee.
In additional selective reporting, the issue of the Commission on Human Rights ignoring cases relating to mandatory vaccination was raised.
Young people have cardiac issues, instructed to
Persons with cardiovascular disease are getting notable younger. Lifestyle is being blamed, instead of that damned elephant in the room, that is the Covid-19 jabs. Since when have people been asked to starting doing cardiac screening when they turn 20! Surely only since 1 March 2021, in the Philippines.
Not only are cardiovascular diseases a problem, the Philippines Government is already asking employers and businesses to take on the task of conducting cancer screening for employees. Employers are now required to give employees access to cancer screening! Talk about passing the buck! Never mind that this provides an opportunity for health-based workplace discrimination, what about medical privacy. Who then pays for cancer treatments?
Filipinos will be offered as clinical trial subjects if this bill is enacted. Of course, the intent is to benefit early from access to new drubs. However, I wonder how safety for clinical trials is not being strengthened given the clinical trial experience since March 2021.
There were some reporters present! Only some indirect reporting. I guess they generally consider that this is too hot to touch!
"Rumble link for 27th February Senate hearing where the topics were WHO IRHs, Humans Rights Violations During the Pandemic, Excess Deaths, and Janssen Hot Lots. " [It was a joint hearing of 2 committees of the House of Representatives, not the Senate. No Senate committees involved. Also, the Justice Secretary is not "Romulo," it's Remulla.