DOH SEC FRANCISCO DUQUE III MUST RESIGN NOW

The corruption in PhilHealth is now beyond the pale and can be viewed as a loose cannon in a perverse sort of way in the midst that the nation is battling the Covid-19 pandemic. The people are dying from the virus and of hunger, and the economy is teetering on the verge of collapse. No matter how PRRD constantly juggle the books rushing into anything for the country to stay afloat, and keeping himself in calling distance but these bunch of PhilHealth corrupt public officials with saintly facade are robbing the nation with tons of billions of money per week. 

PRRD is shattered by the unrelenting rapid corruption at PhilHealth that turned into a cascade of big fires amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The Senate had been conducting a series of hearings that started on Tuesday, August 4, 2020, over the alleged widespread corruption against PHILHEALTH connected with the Covid pandemic. 

Resigned anti-fraud officer Thorrsson Montes Keith has tagged the PhilHealth Chairman of the Board, DOH Secretary Francisco Duque III, as the "godfather" of the alleged mafia. PhilHealth President Ricardo Morales and other officials were also alleged of practicing favoritism in the disbursement of billions of pesos under the P27-billion Interim Reimbursement Mechanism (IRM), and the overprice in the purchase of information technology (IT) equipment worth P2.1 billion.

In the case of Sec. Francisco Duque III, it could be recalled in the past he had been allegedly involved in the anomaly of medicine procurement worth millions in favor of his relatives who owned a pharmaceutical company. There was also a loud call for his resignation as DOH Secretary for not acting fast enough to stop the spread of the Covid contagion. With this, Sec. Duque was not an upstanding citizen after all that Filipinos think he is. Is this not the time Sec. Duque will come to his senses by resigning out of delicadeza?

Delicadeza is not merely a stentorian term evincing a bygone ethic. It is a legal principle as embodied by certain provisions of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act under Section 3 of R.A. No. 3019.

Sec. Duque right now is in a situation that every time he tries to prove his innocence, it was really becoming worst. Duque has no more option left but to resign because no matter what he does to drive out the darkness that is cast upon him, there can be no light that is able to drive out the demons within him.