US$ 15 Million Authorized for Containment of COVID-19

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The Ministry of Health also plans to hire additional personnels such as nurses, physicians, expert, health staff, support staff for release to all local and neighborhood health centers. Health and Health Minister, Michel Chebat says that one of the key areas his ministry will focus on is the purchase of medical and pharmaceutical supplies such as portable ultrasound, infusion pumps, and oxygen. The ministry will also be seeking approval for overtime for its frontline workers. According to Minister Chebat, Prime Minister and Minister of Financing, John Briceño, has actually authorized a fifteen-million-dollar injection into the health system to eliminate COVID-19 That is a substantial quantity of money for the Briceño Administration considering that the last U.D.P. administration left the federal government cash-strapped. So where is the money originating from? Chebat states that is a question for PM Briceño.

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