CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: A lawmaker has appealed to Congress to restore in the 2023 general appropriations a total of P3.4 billion slashed from the budgets of the University of the Philippines (UP) and the Philippine General Hospital (PGH), both state-run institutions.

Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus Rodriguez on Thursday disclosed that based on the proposed P5.268-trillion budget for next year, the university would suffer a budget cut of P2.5 billion and the hospital, P893 million.

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