The magnitude of will would fall on the new face of the Department of Health to modernize the agency and orchestrate the country's assets to replicate medical successes like Singapore, according to a lawmaker.
House Minority Leader Marcelino Libanan stressed that the new DoH chief should embody remarkable ideas, visions and processes perfectly postured to make all the differences in an industry complicated by an arduous return stage from the pandemic and a staggering exodus of personnel.
Libanan said these are requisites in his note to Malacañang to designate a permanent Health secretary.
"The Philippines has all the assets needed to advance as an international medical center for foreign patients looking for world-class healthcare," Libanan said. "Filipino healthcare professionals are also admired around the world as the most caring. We have to capitalize on this."
The goal, according to Libanan, is to be of the same stature as Singapore, which receives more than 160,000 foreign patients undergoing over 70 kinds of medical treatments or procedures every year.
"In fact, a growing number of wealthy Filipinos are already flying to Singapore just to seek medical treatment," Libanan said.
