The City Government of Davao issued Executive Order (EO) No. 45, Series of 2022, also known as “An Order Creating The Local Investment Planning for Health/Annual Operational Plan (AOP) Planning Team, which was signed by Mayor Sebastian “Baste” Duterte on September 21, 2022.
EO 45 provides that the newly created LIPH Planning Team shall consist of the city health officer as chairman and the Sangguniang Panlungsod’s Committee on Health chairperson as vice-chairman.
The LIPH Planning Team members are the City Planning and Development Officer, Human Resources and Management Officer,
City Budget Officer, City Accountant, City Treasurer, Liga ng mga Barangay president, representative from indigenous cultural communities/indigenous peoples (ICC/IPs), and representative from non-government organizations/Civil Society Organizations (NGOs/CSOs).
The LIPH, as per Department of Health Administrative Order (AO) No. 2020-0022 Guidelines on the Development of Local Investment Plans for Health Section V. General Guidelines A.3, shall be developed by every LGU based on the local health epidemiology and situation, local objectives for health, and guided by the Ambisyon Natin 2040, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), Philippine Development Plan (PDP) and the National Objectives for Health (NOH).
The AO also states that the LIPH shall be translated into three Annual Operational Plans (AOPs) and that AOPs shall be considered by the DOH in its yearly budget proposals, with appropriate feedback provided to LGUs and shall be the basis of financial and non-financial grants from the national government, particularly DOH, and other health partners.
EO 45 mandates that the LIPH Planning Team shall develop a Local Investment Plan for Health that shall be translated into three AOPs and ensure their implementation.
According to EO 45, the development of the LIPH and AOP shall follow an iterative process as stated in the Department of Health Administrative Order No.2020-0018 VI.B: Center for Health Development (CHD) call to plan; LGU Plan Development; review and appraisal; a concurrence of the plan; plan implementation; and monitoring of plan implementation.
The LIPH Planning Team is also mandated to follow the specific guidelines stated in the Department of Health Administrative Order No. 2020-0022 -Guidelines on the Development of Local Investment Plans for Health.
Its operational costs shall be chargeable against available funds and resources of the City Health Office, subject to the usual accounting and auditing rules and regulations.
EO 45 cited Article II, Section 15 of the 1987 Constitution, which states that “the State shall protect and promote the right to health of the people and instill health consciousness among them” and Article XIII, Section 11, which says that “the State shall adopt an integrated and comprehensive approach to health development which shall endeavor to make essential goods, health and other social services available to all the people at affordable cost. There shall be a priority for the needs of the underprivileged sick, elderly, disabled, women, and children. The State shall endeavor to provide free medical care to paupers.”
Section 3.1b under General Objectives of Republic Act (RA) No. 11223, also known as the “Universal Health Care Law,” seeks to “ensure that all Filipinos are guaranteed equitable access to quality and affordable health care goods and services and protected against financial risk.”
Section 22.1 of RA No. 11223 provides that the national government, through the Department of Health, shall make available commensurate financial and non-financial matching grants, including capital outlay, human resources for health, health commodities, and such other management support and technical assistance, to improve the functionality of the province-wide and city-wide health systems.
And RA No. 11223, Section 22.3 further states that the province-wide and city-wide health investment plans like the LIPH, and the annual operational plan (AOP) shall serve as the basis for the grants from the national government to account for the complementation of public and private health care providers and public or private health sector investments to national investment plans.
Click https://dcstaging.davaocity.gov.ph/transparency/executive-orders/2022-2/ for the full provisions of EO 45, Series of 2022. CIO
