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Angara, Herbosa supervise school registration to PhilHealth consultation program

Education Secretary Sonny Angara and Health Secretary Ted Herbosa visit Esteban Abada Elementary School in Quezon City on June 18, 2025 to supervise the registration of learners, teachers and parents to the Konsulta program of PhilHealth. In a chance interview with reporters, Angara and Herbosa answered queries regarding the program, their assessment in the first few days of classes and how the government is resolving the HIV crisis among young people. Principal Janice Palaran speaks to The Manila Times on her school's collaboration with the Departments of Education and Health and the Philippine Health Insurance. She also assessed the first three days of classes, saying that she is not yet seeing any problems yet except for the perennial problem of lack of facilities.

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Transcript
00:00That's the AI, so it is necessary to look at human beings.
00:04We need to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to work in the school.
00:09It is what we need to be able to take critical thinking to be able to be able to be able to work with the teachers.
00:16Did you believe that it was always the first time for life in the pandemic?
00:19It was 100% that it was always the first time.
00:22They were able to learn how to learn how to learn how to learn how to learn how to learn how to learn.
00:26So, how do you believe that?
00:27They don't want to read it because they don't want to read it. They don't want to read it. They don't want to read it. They don't want to read it.
00:34They don't want to visit the teacher, right?
00:35Secretary, NAEI integration.
00:38NAEI integration, it's a curriculum for kids now in the school year.
00:42So that's why we have the President cleared the development of the AI Research Center for Deaf Ed.
00:52We're developing modules for our children.
00:54And the AI for teachers, we have more.
00:56Asek Galvan, of the Deaf Ed.
00:59He's the one who joined Secretary Sani on the Philippine National AIDS Council.
01:04He's the one who created to handle HIV.
01:08We aligned with the curriculum because our findings are more young than HIV.
01:1515 to 24 years old.
01:1730% of HIV is 57 a day.
01:20So, talagang nakatuto kami.
01:22Sabi ko nga kay Sani no, nagumiikot kami.
01:24Many of my problems are youth health problems.
01:28From nutrition to mental health to road safety to HIV to unplanned pregnancy.
01:35Lahat nyan.
01:36Pati NCD.
01:37Yung mga ultra-processed food.
01:41Nutrition.
01:42So, pagtututukan na namin talaga kasi hindi po pwedeng.
01:46Baka nga, some of it is the cause of yung learning crisis.
01:49Yes, yes.
01:50Some of it is stunting because of undernutrition or kulang ang nutrition.
01:54Pumapasok.
01:55Walang pagkain.
01:56So, may ginawa na rin sila yung feeding ng school feeding program.
02:00Binaba nila sa NQ level.
02:02Diba?
02:03The money.
02:04And expand.
02:05If we feed na nila lahat para may pagkain yung mga kabataan when they enter school.
02:10Dati, nakapili yan.
02:12Selected kids lang na mababa yung nutritional level.
02:15Tapos yun ang papakainin.
02:17Ngayon, pinodo lahat sa pinakabata.
02:20Diba?
02:21And ito pong field health registration na to.
02:24Actually, na-launch na po sa amin to.
02:26Na banggit na po noong Brigada Eskwela.
02:28So, may idea na po kami about this.
02:31And then, yung mga...
02:33Ito yung medical mission.
02:35Malaking tulong po yan sa teachers at saka sa mga estudyante.
02:38Siyempre, alam nyo naman po ngayon.
02:40Nauuso yung mga sakit.
02:41Ma'am, of course, ngayon nagsisamula na po yung klase natin.
02:46Three days in.
02:48Meron na po ba tayo mga nakikita mga...
02:52Sabihin na natin mga...
02:54So, mayroon yung problema or mga issues na na-experience ang ating ma-estudyante.
02:59O narinilay naman magulang sa inyo.
03:01Ah, okay. For now naman, smooth pa rin naman yung ano namin.
03:05Minimal na lang yung mga problem ng mga bata na umiiyak.
03:09Kasi may separation anxiety.
03:12Pero, very minimal naman siya at manageable.
03:14Ma'am, kamusta naman po yung ano?
03:16Kamusta po yung implementation ng ating curriculum?
03:20Ah, okay.
03:22Kasi, I think, ayan po, ang gagawin po nila ngayon is grade 3 and 6 na pa?
03:28No.
03:29Ang implementation for phase 2 kasi is grade 2, grade 3, grade 5, and grade 8.
03:35Ano pa? 2, 3, 5 po ba?
03:36Yes. So, starting na po kami ngayon.
03:39Ang mga teachers naman ay well provided with the materials
03:43para sa implementation ng ating phase 2 ng ating curriculum.
03:48May nakikita po ba mga problema yung ating mga kaguruan sa revised curriculum?
03:52Oh, so for now, wala pa.
03:53Syempre kasi they're starting pa lang naman.
03:55Pero, nung nag-training po ma'am or nung nag-orientation sa curriculum, may nakikita po ba sila mga issues po ma'am?
04:02Or, madali naman po na-resolve yung mga?
04:04Parang madali lang na siyang na-resolve kasi hindi na siya bago dahil nag phase 1 na tayo.
04:09Phase 2 na kasi tayo.
04:10So, parang hindi na rin masyadong bago sa kanila yung implementation.
04:15So, I think kung ang teachers naman, wala namang negative feedback about it.
04:21And, doon tayo sa phase 1 po ma'am.
04:24These are phase 1, 1, grades 1, 4.
04:28Ang mga naman po nag-i-feedback nila dahil yun po yung ano?
04:32Yung implementation.
04:33Nabawasan po ba yung teaching load nila?
04:36Yes, nabawasan talaga yung teaching load kasi natanggal na po yung mga administrative tasks sa teachers.
04:44Nasa classroom na lang talaga sila.
04:46So, yung buong oras nila nakalans sa pagtuturo which is very good kasi medyo na-address namin yung mga problema namin on literacy, numeracy yung mga problema namin doon.
04:56Kasi nga yung teacher nakatutok talaga siya sa classroom.
04:59I, straight away.
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