Flourishing Philippines

FLOURISHING PHILIPPINES: ACHIEVING THE UNIMAGINABLE
“Accelerating Progress: Promoting Data and Statistics for Healthy Philippines”
The nation’s developmental progress is one of the aspiration every land pursues to
possess. As part of the economical growth of the country, the United Nations (UN) launched
a partnership with the Philippine Government for a sustainable progressive goal of the said
nation. This development goal is planned to include everyone and everything, leaving no one
behind towards the new empowered era of the Philippines. The aim of the UN is to help
developing countries, including Philippines, to set a new living standard, whereas everyone is
pulled up equally, given the same amount of opportunities, enjoyable rights, peace, justice,
equality, and equity resulting to a flourishing Philippines.
December 2019, the world encountered a dire state of healthcare that threatened the
human health and public safety of everyone due to the emergence of Severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that had caused a pandemic called ‘Coronavirus
disease 2019’ (COVID-19). Due to the sudden change of policies and practices, it caused a
major consequence in the economic growth of the Philippines. The outbreak of the infectious
disease brought a severe negative effect on the economic progress of the said country,
especially in the life of the people, their field of jobs, education, healthcare, and well-being.
Accoring to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for selected ASEAN countries, the
Philippines’ economic growth faltered in 2020 with over -9.6% below the usual GDP growth
— entering negative territory for the first time since 1999 — and the country experienced one
of the deepest contractions in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) that year
(Asian Developmet Outlook.) The Philippines is considered as one of the fastest growing
economies in Asia and it is overwhelming for the mentioned country to be included in the
nations that faltered during the surge of COVID-19. The Philippines’ one major factor of
economic development rely on the mobility of people, however the tourism, services, and
remittances-fed growth that are all vulnerable to pandemic is critically affected. Although the
Philippines was a barely coping during the surge of COVID-19 in 2020, the country’s
economy grew to over a pace of 7.6% in 2022, the fastest rate of economic growth recorded
by the Philippines since 1976. The economy is expected to continue to grow steadily through
2023. The most recent S&P Global Philippines Manufacturing PMI survey findings for
February 2023 indicate that manufacturing production and new orders are still expanding.
The momentum of economic growth is anticipated to be supported in 2023 by ongoing
remittance inflows from workers abroad, exports from the IT-BPO industry that are rapidly
expanding, and the recovery of the tourism sector (S&P Global). Private equity investments,
the acquisition of smaller hospitals, the modernization of infrastructure, and huge hospital
groups are all contributing to the expansion of the Philippine healthcare system. With
affordable medical service rates and medical personnel that understand English, the
Philippines has been identified as a developing area for medical tourists and currently holds
the 24th place out of 46 nations in the 2020 Medical Tourism Index.
Throughout the pandemic, the Philippines have gone through unimaginable things,
overcoming fast pace changes with an unyielding mind, burning souls, and passionate hearts.
“Truly, the country is in a pivotal moment as it traverses onward in its overall health
response. To fully prepare the country, the Department has adopted the “Sulong Kalusugan”
Health Sector Strategy (HSS) for 2023 to 2028, which enables us to fast-track
implementation of Primary Health Care Packages, strengthen International Health
Regulations (IHR), and enact the DOH Policy Agenda for 2023 gearing towards a bolstered
health system in support of other outcomes. All these efforts are for the continued realization
of UHC for every Juan and Juana,” said DOH Officer-in-Charge Maria Rosario Singh-
Vergeire.
Angeline Joy Babaran

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FLOURISHING PHILIPPINES: ACHIEVING THE UNIMAGINABLE

“Accelerating Progress: Promoting Data and Statistics for Healthy Philippines”

equality, and equity resulting to a flourishing Philippines.

syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that had caused a pandemic called ‘Coronavirus

The momentum of economic growth is anticipated to be supported in 2023 by ongoing

implementation of Primary Health Care Packages, strengthen International Health

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