Ilang ahensiya ng pamahalaan, inatasan ni PBBM na bumuo ng programang tututok sa research and development
Ilang ahensiya ng pamahalaan, inatasan ni PBBM na bumuo ng programang tututok sa research and development
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00:00 The Marcos Jr. Administration wants to stop the research and development in the country
00:04 after ordering some government agencies to create a program to focus on the research.
00:10 Rod Lagusa has more.
00:12 The government will create a program to focus on the research and development.
00:19 According to President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.,
00:21 the research is important but it does not end here because there should be development.
00:27 It is very important for our countrymen that this R&D should be given attention
00:34 not only in healthcare but in all sectors of our economy and society.
00:42 This program will give the ability to face the problems we are facing
00:46 such as the possibility of new diseases and even the old health issues
00:51 such as diabetes, cancer, tuberculosis, and HIV.
00:55 This is the code under the program to support the government's research and development.
01:00 What are the methods that we can do so that the R&D or the new knowledge,
01:07 the new technologies can be brought to market as it were as quickly as possible?
01:13 It does not matter if we have this very, very clever,
01:20 very, very advanced and progressive technologies
01:26 but if they are not made available to the people.
01:30 At the same time, President Dr. Carmencita Padilla
01:33 called the Order of National Scientists in Malacanang.
01:36 Padilla is one of the 43 individuals given the recognition in the country.
01:41 She is the first scientist to be awarded the Medal of Merit
01:45 for the medical genetics.
01:47 Her role was important in passing the Newborn Screening Act
01:50 that saved many children from mental retardation and death,
01:55 in the creation and reading of the Rare Diseases Act,
01:57 and the establishment of the Philippine Genome Center
01:59 which was a great help during the COVID-19 pandemic.
02:03 President Padilla encouraged the creation of a program
02:05 where DOST, DOH, and DTI are included to promote research and development
02:10 just like the importance of genetics when it comes to the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic.
02:15 That is why this effort of the genetic research
02:22 and all the way through to being able to apply that
02:27 specifically to the Filipino situation,
02:30 to the genetics of the Filipino.
02:34 We must be very aware of the specificity
02:39 of the responses that we make, especially in healthcare.
02:45 Meanwhile, DTI Assistant Secretary Allan Guepte was also awarded
02:49 the Presidential Medal of Merit for his contribution
02:52 to the negotiation of the largest regional free trade agreement
02:55 in the development of the country
02:57 in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP.
03:00 Because of this, according to the President,
03:01 this will open opportunities for Filipinos
03:04 to be united in the struggle in the RCEP region.
03:07 Rod Laguzad for the nation.
03:09 (upbeat music)