SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga – President Arroyo has named former Pampanga representative Reynaldo Aquino president and chief executive officer of Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (Philhealth).
During his stint at the House of Representatives, Aquino was vice chairman of the Health and Local Government Committee, and member of the committees on appropriations, civil service and professional regulation, food security, games and amusement trade and industry; public works and highways.
Aquino has authored a total of 38 bills, including one seeking to establish a system of public school accreditation by the Department of Education for all the nation’s public elementary schools and a bill aiming to constitute the City of San Fernando in the province of Pampanga into a lone district.
Aquino also was named Outstanding Mayor by the Local Government Academy and Center for Local and Regional Governance in 2003.
In 1998, he was chosen as Outstanding Public Servant by the Philippine National Police in 2000 and Outstanding Kapampangan awardee for public service.
Philhealth is a premier government corporation that aims to assist indigent families to ensure sustainable, affordable and progressive social health insurance which influence the delivery of accessible quality health care for all Filipinos.
Cabuay is NICA chief
Mrs. Arroyo has appointed Deputy National Security Adviser Pedro Cabuay as head of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) in place of Cesar Garcia, who has resigned for health reasons, Malacañang said yesterday.
Cabuay, a retired Army general, served as Armed Forces deputy chief for intelligence and headed the Southern Luzon Command.
His appointment papers were signed on July 30.
National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales said Garcia resigned because he is scheduled to undergo major knee surgery.
“The resignation was irrevocable,” he said.
Garcia, a member of the Philippine Military Academy Class 1970, was named NICA chief shortly after Mrs. Arroyo assumed office in 2001. – With Paolo Romero