00:00PhilHealth's initiatives will continue, especially in the implementation of universal healthcare.
00:05Now, they have a new leader, Claycel Pardilla, in detail.
00:13The new leader of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, PhilHealth,
00:18President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.,
00:21was appointed by Dr. Edwin Mercado as the President and Chief Executive Officer of PhilHealth.
00:27This was followed by his inauguration in front of President R. Marcos in Malacaña.
00:32Mercado replaced Emanuel Ledesma Jr.,
00:36who served as President of PhilHealth for more than a year.
00:40PhilHealth's new leader has 35 years of experience in hospital management.
00:46He was the Vice Chairman of the Mercado General Hospital Qualimed Health Network
00:50since March 2021,
00:52and a regular faculty lecturer at the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health.
00:57He studies the expenses of each member for the global coverage of inpatient services
01:02and promotes the use of artificial intelligence
01:06to community health workers
01:08in the distribution of primary care to the injured.
01:11PhilHealth followed Mercado's leadership
01:15with deep experience in the medical field.
01:18The agency is positive that PhilHealth's initiatives will continue,
01:23particularly the implementation of universal health care
01:27that provides decent medical services to Filipinos.
01:32Health Secretary Quildoro Herbosa
01:35congratulated Mercado
01:37and thanked Ledesma for his service.
01:41Meanwhile, the former PNP Major General Isagani Neres
01:44was appointed by the President
01:47as the new leader of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency,
01:51or PIDEA.
01:52Klaizal Pardilia
01:54for Pambansang TV
01:56in the new Philippines!
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