Taguig City Mayor Lani Cayetano, her husband Senator Alan Peter Cayetano, Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratman, his spouse听Mrs. Jane Shanmugaratman, and other key officials attend the ceremony on August 16, Friday at Fort Bonifacio to strengthen healthcare opportunities in the city. (Photo courtesy of I Love Taguig/Facebook)
MANILA, Philippines 鈥� Taguig City signed two agreements for healthcare opportunities with Singapore on Friday, following the visit of to the country to strengthen ties focusing on healthcare and economic development.
鈥淭he first initiative, a Public-Private-Philanthropic Partnership led by CareSpan Asia Inc. and Temasek Foundation, is set to provide primary healthcare access to 350,000 underserved residents of Taguig through an advanced Digital Health care platform,鈥� the post of the Taguig City government said.
鈥淭he second initiative, in collaboration with the Singhealth Duke-NUS Maternal and Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI), focuses on improving key health indicators, infrastructure planning, and capacity building in Taguig鈥檚 maternal and child health facilities,鈥� it added.
The Singaporean president, in a ceremony in Taguig City on Friday, highlighted the importance of collaboration in ensuring the provision of maternal and child healthcare in the developmental years of the child.
鈥淚鈥檓 so happy that we are doing this together鈥� The good comes in the doing鈥t requires committed partnerships, in your case, the Mayor and the team in Taguig City, KK Women鈥檚 and Children鈥檚 Hospital, who has the experts, Temasek Foundation, who is helping to make this possible and everyone else who鈥檚 involved,鈥� said President Shanmugaratnam.
听Taguig City Mayor Lani Cayetano said that the agreements are 鈥減owerful symbols of our shared dedication to advancing maternal and child health in the Philippines.鈥�
During Shanmugaratman鈥檚 state visit in the country, he and President Ferdinand 鈥淏ongbong鈥� R. Marcos Jr. signed a memorandum of understanding on the recruitment of Filipino healthcare workers to Singapore, according to the Presidential Communications Office (PCO).
The PCO also said that the visit marks a 鈥渘otable chapter鈥� in the 55-year history of formal diplomatic relations between the two countries. There are around 200,000 Filipinos in Singapore.听