DOH assures RITM personnel employment in proposed CDC

• Published date: 25 November 2022
• Publication title: Philippines News agency

The Department of Health (DOH) has assured personnel of the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) that they would not lose their jobs once the bill on the establishment Center for Disease Control is enacted into law.

'We assure our personnel in RITM, nobody will lose their work, everybody will be absorbed based on the capacity of each of our personnel in RITM,' DOH officer-in-charge Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said in a media briefing on Friday.

Vergeire made the statement in response to speculations that RITM will be abolished and many of its personnel would be unemployed.

'There is no truth to that. In fact, what we are going to do is to further strengthen the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine because we are going to subsume the RITM into our current Center for Disease Control which will have more funds, which will have more support, which will have more experts for us to be further guided into these different tasks that we have,' she added.

The national reference laboratories of RITM will be subsumed under the functions of the Center for Health Laboratories while the clinical research units, the hospital...