With our country – and the global one – now in the midst of one of the worst pandemics of this century, and with the imminent risk of a serious recession, do you know what our Senate has done in silence?
He continues to build what is a monument to the 24 super-egos, the new Senate headquarters in Bonifacio Global City, scheduled for 2018. The assignment began in March last year and had its first concrete emptying in February this year, which is expected to be completed next year. I told them the Senate orders to their contractors were going full speed. “A long covid-covid? Tuloy tayo,” a senator would have told the businessman.
Senator Panfilo Lacson, when he first proposed the assignment in 2018, said he would collect five billion pesos and even issued a press release saying that I was in my column estimating that he would eventually charge a billion and five hundred dollars.
The February 6 reports on the first concrete discharge for construction attended by Lacson and Senate President Vicente Sotto 3 reported that they would charge nine billion pesos, a figure obviously taken from a Senate press release. (See my march 20, 101nine column “P15B Monument to the 24 Superpolitical egos”). And that’s just the contractor’s price, which doesn’t come with lighting and other high-tech construction features.
That’s crazy. We are the only country in the world to adopt such a massive $200 million project, which is certainly a luxury for 24 public servants, at a time when we are in recession, with an economy expected to contract by 8% this year. compared to last year. And, of course, there is still a real risk of being defeated by a disease that has brought the richest nation in the world, the United States, to its knees, the United States, which has recorded 5.3 million cases.
WHAT PANDEMIC? Senators about their new construction in February (above). Below, representation of the “Bagong Senate”. United States Senate Photos
And Lacson even boasted in a speech to the Senate in February that construction would be on 2 acres of land with 4 towers and 11 floors. Would each and every senator have the floor?
Instead, use the 10 billion pesos for Covid-19 hospitals.
Numerous studies on how China temporarily overcame the virus epidemic involve only the strict closure of the city of Wuhan, but also its incredibly fast structure of two hospitals in just 10 days, from January 24 to February 3. There were 2,300 beds, a quarter of which will be extensive care units. More than 7,000 employees worked day and night to build it, a demonstration of the strength of a single party state.
And this was done when Wuhan had only 6000 instances and 130 deaths. The National Capital Region now has 40,000 active instances and approximately 1,000 deaths.
Most likely, these Wuhan hospitals would have been built with a massive load due to the rush. But I don’t think they’re ingering $200 million.
There is an urgent desire to build even makeshift hospitals for covid-19 patients. The transparent and given danger seems in the last 4 weeks: the city’s hospital beds for Covid-19 patients fill to the bris of mind.
For the country as a whole, hospitalizations due to covid-19 accumulation increased from only 7043 on July 12 to 8731 on July 12, indicating that accumulation in cases is not only due to escalation of tests.
As with all cases, the hospitalizations basically occurred in the National Capital Region, which had 4,456 patients the other day, part of the country’s total hospitalized.
All the most productive hospitals in the town (read: the establishment to which the middle and high categories would go) have exhausted the total of beds loyal to coronavirus patients. Although few, if any, hospitals have more than 10 extensive care beds, they have also been filled since the other day.
This can exacerbate the pandemic scenario in our country as a whole.
Second, more and more people who suspect they have the disease would be rejected in hospitals and would likely adopt a fatalistic attitude and simply return home, infecting their families.
And third, of course, Covid-19 will most likely spread to the hospital if you have more inflamed patients, especially since those with other diseases are more likely to be inflamed.
It is not easy for hospitals to increase the number of beds faithful to Covid-19 cases, as these amenities require strict medical protocols to space out patients with highly infectious diseases. And more Covid-19 beds don’t make much publicity sense. Only the government has the capacity to establish more services for patients with Covid-19.
So far, I’ve only heard of quarantine services that the government has implemented, but there are no fully functional hospitals. We may not have the generation or tissues to establish such hospitals in Wuhan. The Chinese used prefabricated units, used new types of fabrics, and adhered to plans for such a medical facility established in 2003 for the SARS outbreak.
In July, the Indonesian Department of Public Works and Roads and the Pacific Metropolitan area completed the conversion of the gigantic Filipino church or Christ in Bocaue, Bulacan, into a 300-bed Covid-19 “megaprocessing” facility.
Conglomerate Ayala and the Philippines investment firm and low-profile capital, chaired by Guillermo Luchangco, opened a 520-bed facility for Covid-19 patients in April by converting parts of the World Trade Center, which would of course remain inactive. until the pandemic is over.
The Senate? He built a five-star luxury building for him.
And to think that even President Duterte said that the government is running out of budget and that it may no longer provide monetary assistance to the unemployed because of longer and long-term blockades.
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