THE House Committee on Health is now working on measures that will address the diminishing share of local government units (LGUs) in the country's total health expenditure, including mandating an automatic 5 percent allocation for special health fund.

Reacting to the study titled 'Philippine Health Sector Performance: An analysis using the National Health Accounts of 1990-2022' commissioned by the Unilab Center for Health Policy (UCHP), Rep. Ciriaco Gato Jr., Health Committee Chair, recognized that various problems and issues concerning health financing continue to plague and threaten the healthcare network, despite the enactment of the Universal Healthcare Act, 'and one of these issues is the lack of mandatory allocation of funds for health services.'