Dead still in PhilHealth member list
By Nidz Godino
"Thing with PhilHealth, database is my understanding is we have to clean it up because I think there are around four to five million people who have already passed away…have not been removed from database," Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano said about four to five million members of Philippine Health Insurance Corp. were found to be already dead but still remain in its database. During public hearing of Senate committee on science and technology being chaired and presided over by Cayetano, Emmanuel Ledesma Jr. said agency's database is undergoing extensive cleaning after their system was hacked last week.
Ledesma said they need help of Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) to fix their database for fear of using these names. He said about 92 percent of Filipinos are listed in PhilHealth.
Ledesma already asked DICT and Philippine Statistics Authority to help them in cleaning of PhilHealth database.
He noted Filipinos can easily register with PhilHealth… "Now, what I want to mention also is that there's this thing called 'point of care' that makes it very easy for an individual to become member," he said.
Cayetano conducted public hearing anchored on resolution of Sen. Mark Villar after around 13 to 20 million PhilHealth members' names and information were leaked online following recent cyberattack.
Villar filed Resolution No. 811 before Senate directing appropriate committee to conduct inquiry in aid of legislation over cyberattack incident and all other attacks against government websites.
"It is high time we strengthen our cyberspace security as we are dealing with private and delicate information that could endanger, not just of one institution, but of general Filipino public, this attack is not just big case of information theft… part of massive attack against public health and welfare," Villar said.
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