DAGUPAN Councilor Michael Fernandez categorically blamed the seven opposition councilors for the loss of the P150 million allotted for the Mother and Child Hospital (MCH), who tried to escape accountability.

Speaking during a press conference of the UnliSerbisyo Team led by Mayor Belen Fernandez and Vice Mayor Brian Kua, the councilor asserted that the opposition ignored the mayor’s request for a resolution filed as early as 2022 for an authority to sign a memorandum of agreement with the Department of Health (DOH) for the implementation of the project, with an attached certificate of urgency to the letter.

Fernandez said the opposition only passed the measure in December of 2024 when the fund was already reverted back to the national treasury based on the two-year deadline of budgetary rule.

In November 2023, the SP majority issued a committee report manifesting its non-favorable recommendation to the resolution.

Records showed that the SP majority only passed the needed resolution on October 8, 2024 following an urgent meeting of all city officials and technical personnel of the DOH the day before on October 7, 2024 upon receipt of a letter to the Sanggunian by DOH Undersecretary Ma. Rosario Vergeire on October 5 who advised that the fund will be reverted back to the national treasury on October 11.

The mayor said if given a chance for another term as mayor, she and her UnbliSerbisyo  eam will work with the national government for another outlay for the MCH.

Councilor Fernandez confirmed that the majority did not want the MCH resolution passed because it did not want the project to be credited to administration of Mayor Fernandez. (Leonardo Micua)

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