THE Senate finance committee defended on Friday the move to slash the family planning budget of the Department of Health (DOH) by P1 billion, saying the amount will be used to fund equally-important projects of other government agencies.
Senator Loren Legarda, chairperson of the Senate committee on finance, said instead of going to the family health and responsible parenting (FHRP) program of the DOH, the P1 billion was used to increase the budgets of other agencies such as the Department of National Defense and state universities and colleges (SUCs).
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