Elections unlikely to affect DOH programs - Dr. Tayag By Alfredo L. Vargas Jr.

Elections unlikely to affect DOH programs - Dr. Tayag By Alfredo L. Vargas Jr. LEGAZPI CITY, Feb. 6 (PNA) -- The results of the forthcoming mid-term elections are not a barrier to the implementation of health programs and projects already planned for execution long before by the Department of Health (DOH). Dr. Eric Tayag, DOH Assistant Secretary, said “health cannot wait,” and they will find ways and means to convince new officials to support and sustain good health programs and practices initiated by previous local executives. Tayag, the DOH’s visible and popular “Dr. Gangnam,” brushed aside apprehensions on the sustainability of health initiatives if and when incumbents are not re-elected. He was in this city along with representatives from the World Health Organization (WHO) Monday before leaving for Catanduanes for a final assessment of the local government’s preparedness in management and prevention of cholera that has been occurring widespread in the island, especially the whole of last year and in 2005. “The sustainability of health projects already begun are not and should not be dependent on whether or not an incumbent gets re-elected as health can’t wait,” he stressed.