PRESS RELEASE l 10 Nov 2011
KALIPUNAN NG DAMAYANG MAHIHIRAP
Reference: Carlito Badion, Kadamay vice chair (09393873736)
Urban poor group Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) was irked by Malacanang's statement that the government, if necessary, is willing to shoulder the cost for a specialist to cure Ms. Arroyo, rather than letting her take up medication overseas and possibly escape election fraud charges.
"It is such a shame that Mr. Aquino would spend taxpayers' money to cure 'ailing' corrupt officials while thousands of poor Filipinos die each day because they can't afford medications for curable diseases having nothing to afford the bills for as basic as medical consultation in public hospital," Carlito Badion said, national vice chair of Kadamay.
"It only shows how Aquino is misappropriating taxpayer's money at his own personal discretion, symptomatic of how his administration is misappropriating billions of public funds for the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT), the defective poverty alleviation program of his administration," Badion said. "The people must be wary of how Aquino is spending the president's P298 billion in discretionary funds in the P1.186-trillion national budget for 2012," he added.
Badion commented on Ms Arroyo's medication: "she and her family have enriched themselves during her ten years of presidency, with enough money to pay for such treatment. If she wanted to give credit to herself as a former leader of millions of poor Filipinos, or even as a representative of his generally poor constituents from Pampanga's second district, she deserved no less than the medical service offered by Aquino to an ordinary citizen, that is annually slashed of government subsidy and is deteriorating in condition. She must be given some discounts, too, using the Philhealth cards she distributed to voters during election."###
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