ASEAN HEADLINE: TOP STORY: MANILA- Migrant workers bare test overprice
ASEAN COVID-19 PANDEMIC: Philippines
Swab results cost from P7k to P20k; Red Cross tapped to take over testing
Filipino migrant workers stranded in the country’s airports have to pay up to P20,000 for immediate coronavirus tests results, the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) said on Sunday.PRC chairman Senator Richard Gordon said the non-government organization was allowed to enter the country’s international airports in Manila, Clark, and Cebu as overseas Filipino workers have asked the Red Cross to directly facilitate their COVID-19 test.The Red Cross earlier suspended its COVID-19 testing because the Philippine Health Insurance Corp., (PhilHealth), which was supposed to pay for the tests, had accumulated almost P1 billion in unpaid bills.“Someone from Washington D.C. texted me and said he or she was charged P10,000. It seems someone there is benefitting from this,” Gordon said in Filipino in an interview on ABS-CBN’s TeleRadyo
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