Malacañang said Friday that PhilHealth chief and CEO Dante Gierran had asked the state insurer’s senior executives to file their courtesy resignations as part of the agency’s reorganization process.
“Bagamat hindi ko pa nakikita yang memo, nakatanggap na po ako ng tatlong kumpirmasyon na hinihingi nga po ni president ng PhilHealth ngayon yung courtesy resignation ng lahat ng Salary [Grade] 26, kabahagi na po diyan yung mga vice presidents diyan sa PhilHealth,” presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said in an interview on Dobol B sa News TV.
The Palace official said the memo covers vice president and senior vice president positions in PhilHealth.
He added those who are running clean departments need not fear Gierran’s resignation order.
“Yung mga walang pananagutan, yung mga hindi nangurakot, wala dapat ikatakot dahil alam ko naman po na yung desisyon ni Attorney Gierran kung sino ang mananatili ay ibabase niya sa ebidensiya,” he said.
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Gierran asked for PhilHealth execs’ courtesy resignation
Roque also said in an interview with CNN Philippines earlier that Gierran probably thinks that the courtesy resignation of senior officials is “the fastest way that he can reorganize” PhilHealth.
“Attorney Gierran knows that he does not have much time. And that’s why I think it was important for him to request that all the senior executives file their courtesy resignations because that’s the fastest way that he can reorganize,” Roque said.
“We’re confident, though, that he will have very good information that would guide him on whose resignation to accept. I hope too that he will be guided by the Senate findings as well as the findings of Task Force PhilHealth,” he added.
Last month, Roque said President Rodrigo Duterte gave Gierran until December 2020 to “clean up” the state insurer’s alleged corruption.
“The deadline given to Attorney Gierran is a deadline to clean up the organization. File all the cases that need to be filed, suspend, terminate, whatever you need to do to cleanse the ranks of PhilHealth,” Roque said.
Gierran is an accountant and formerly served as the director of the National Bureau of Investigation.