00:00Departments of Health, Department of the Interior and Local Government, and Department of Justice
00:06are in the center of the cases of Persons Deprived of Liberty or PDL.
00:10This is the reason why PDL patients are being diagnosed and treated immediately.
00:15Salima Refrat has the first news.
00:19In the middle of the problems in the prisons in the country,
00:23the U.P. College of Medicine's autopsy found that many people died of TB.
00:31There are also those who have cancer but were not diagnosed so they were not treated.
00:36In order to avoid this, the Health, Interior, and Justice Departments
00:41issued a Joint Administrative Order to have a national policy
00:45in taking care of the health of those in detention facilities.
00:49The systematization of our jails will be systematized
00:55to make sure that all of these are healthy places of detention.
00:59The number one action point in the eight-point action agenda states
01:06that every Filipino feels the pain and the PDLs are part of every Filipino.
01:12The order is to speed up the treatment of those in jail
01:17and to build hospitals near or inside the jails.
01:22For the expenses of each patient, PhilHealth will take care of it.
01:26Immediate eligibility for health care packages in line with the Universal Health Care Act
01:31is a promise we are making today.
01:34This is a big thing because the discussion here is that all PDLs will have medical records.
01:41If they need to be treated, PhilHealth will be there.
01:46The BJMP will restrict the prohibition of smoking in their jails
01:51so that there will be no more problems.
01:53Can you imagine, he was there for close to five minutes and he still smoked.
01:59This is the first news in five sentences for JMA Integrated News.
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