A leader of the House of Representatives on Sunday reassured workers of the RITM that there will be no abolition or layoffs in the government research unit as the Center for Disease Control (CDC) inches closer to becoming law.
A leader of the House of Representatives on Sunday reassured workers of the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine that there will be no abolition or layoffs in the government research unit as the Center for Disease Control inches closer to becoming law.
The lawmaker gave the reassurance as workers in the RITM have protested recently about possible layoffs with the creation of the CDC. “The RITM is and will continue to be, its own research center with a hospital, a testing center, the country’s central reference laboratory and will continue to perform its existing role over many diseases, including perennial ones like tuberculosis and malaria,” he added.
“You can quote me on this: As champion of the CDC charter, we will not defund the RITM because of the new agency,” Salceda added.
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