Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial on Tuesday said the Department of Health (DOH) has released P10 million in assistance for hospital expenses of victims in the Friday night Davao City blast.

“I made an order to our finance people to release P10 million to the Southern Philippines Medical Center and to the regional health office in Davao to attend to the needs of the patients outside [the hospitals],” Ubial told lawmakers during a budget hearing on the DOH’s P144-billion proposed budget for 2017.

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