Free medicines for the poor, and substantial and sweeping drug price cuts for the rest.
Sen. Loren Legarda announced this advocacy after proclaiming that the much ballyhooed price reduction is “only good in television.”
Legarda said that in her political sorties all over the countries, she was swamped by complaints that prices of medicines, including the essential life-saving items, remain high despite the passage of Cheaper Medicine Act (RA 9502).
This is because the law is a watered-down version as […]
The government should take immediate steps to help the drought-stricken farmers, while making urgent repairs of irrigation and water impounding systems.
NP-NPC-LDP vice presidential candidate Loren Legarda, who chairs the Senate agriculture committee, said the government must make sure the farmers and their farmlands will survive the El Nino phenomenon with enough emergency funds through a cash transfer program.
Legarda said the government should also give free NFA (National Food Administration) rice to the families of the more hard-hit farmers […]
“POWER GENERATION PROJECTS SHOULD BE ONE OF THE PRIORITIES OF THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION, ESPECIALLY IN AREAS THAT HAVE A LOT OF POTENTIAL FOR GROWTH,” NP-NPC-LDP VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE LOREN LEGARDA SAID ON THURSDAY, A DAY BEFORE HER SCHEDULED FLIGHT TO CATARMAN, THE CAPITAL TOWN OF NORTHERN LEYTE.
Legarda visited such areas in Mindanao last week as part of her campaign, along with running mate Manny Villar. She was struck by the power crisis in the area, particularly the Caraga Region. Read More
The poll results of NP-NPC-LDP vice presidential candidate Loren Legarda has been steadily improving with closest rival Mar Roxas’ lead having gone down by four percentage points compared to the SWS survey results in January.
In the Manila Standard Today (MST) survey, Legarda is similarly shown to be getting stronger and with a high conversion rate. She is at 28 percent.
“Kung titingnan ng mabuti, lamang pa rin ako sa masa—dahil isa ako sa kanila. Kami ni Senator Villar, galing […]
SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA, CHAIR OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND DEMOGRAPHY, RENEWS HER CALL FOR A “MASSIVE AND SUSTAINED VACCINATION DRIVE” TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE AGAINST PREVENTABLE DISEASES, ESPECIALLY AS HIGH TEMPERATURES ARE CAUSING MORE PEOPLE TO BE PRONE TO DISEASE.
“The curative approach in medication is much more costly than the preventive approach. It must also be considered that many preventable diseases have lifelong consequences which range from hearing loss and speech defects to more severe ones such […]
