HIGHER INCENTIVES FIR ATHLETES SOUGHT IN SPORTS SUMMIT

BAGUIO CITY

If there is one amendment to the sports code or City Ordinance No. 47, Series of 2021, city administrator wants that it be increase in the incentives. During the Ugnayan at the Public Information Office at the Baguio City Hall, city
administrator Bonifacio dela Pena said that the incentives are rather low. “I guess the athletes need higher incentives,” said de la Pena referring to the cash given by the city to winning athletes in regional, national or
international competitions.

Southeast Asian Games medal winners receive PhP30,000, PhP20,000 and PhP10,000 for a gold, silver or bronze medal for instance. Dela Pena made the statement on the eve of the city sports summit by the city sports promotion and development council (CSDPC) that was supposed to be held last Thursday and Friday. However, CSDO IV
Gaudencio Gonzales said the summit will be instead staged on October 11 at the Garden Plaza instead of the two day
event last Thursday and Friday (October 3 and 4).

The day long sports summit hopes to effect a possible amendment to the sports code passed during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Sangguniang Kabataan Federation chair and councilor John Rey Mananeng said recently that the two-day sports summit just hopes to identify other that was scheduled on said dates (October 3 and 4). This after mayor Benjamin Magalong urged the body, during its June 21 meeting, to conduct the sports summit “as soon as possible” for the city to have a sports program that will be to the benefit all those involved in sports.

However, the staging of the summit was delayed with the city’s participation to the Palarong Pambansa in July. It will be recalled during the CSPDC’s first meeting last June, the CSPDC including the cash incentives and financial programa ng Department of Health na naglalayong magbigay ng suportang pinansyal sa mga mahihirap at mahihirap na pasyente na naghahanap ng medikal na pagsusuri, konsultasyon, paggamot, at rehabilitasyon at ang mga nakakulong sa mga ospital ng gobyerno,” ayon sa resolusyong akda ni Board Member Shiela Marie F. Baniqued, na inaprubahan noong Oktubre 7.

Ang pondo ay ida-download sa sumusunod na 14 na ospital ng gobyerno para sa layunin nito: 1. Asingan Community Hospital, P5,940,000.00; 2. Bayambang District Hospital, P5,107,234.00; 3. Bolinao Community Hospital, P5,940,000.00; 4. Dasol Community Hospital, P5,185,874.00; 5) Eastern Pangasinan District Hospital, P5,198,323.00; 6. Lingayen District Hospital, P5,940,000.00; 7. Manaoag Community Hospital, P5,940,000.00; 8. Mangatarem District Hospital, P5,940,000.00; 9. Mapandan Community Hospital, P5,940,000.00; 10. Pangasinan Provincial Hospital (San Carlos City), P6,930,000.00; 11. Pozorrubio Community Hospital, P5,940,000.00; 12. Umingan Community Hospital, P5,940,000.00; 13. Urdaneta District Hospital, P7,920,000.00; 14. Western Pangasinan District Hospital, P5,940,000.00.

Matatandaang noong unang quarter ng 2024, nagbigay si Sen. Go ng kabuuang P55.4 milyong MAIFIP Program Fund, na ginamit ng 14 na ospital. Ang isang pasyente na hindi nauuri bilang indigent ngunit nagpapakita ng kawalan ng kakayahan na magbayad o gumastos ng mga kinakailangang gastusin para sa pagpapagamot ng isang tao ay maaari ding mag-aplay para sa tulong pinansyal sa ilalim ng Administrative Order No. 2020-0060 ng DOH.

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