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Blue Ribbon hearing continues: Sen. Richard Gordon, chairman of the Blue Ribbon Committee, stresses that the committee will remain steadfast in its investigation on the 2020 Commission on Audit report and other related issues to the Department of Health budget utilization, especially the expenditures related to the fight against COVID-19, Monday, September 13, 2021. “In the past hearings, we discovered the neglect on the welfare of our front line soldiers and our front line folks in our fight against COVID - the nurses, the doctors and other health care workers who are our sentinels in the fight against COVID-19,” Gordon said. He added that billions of public funds were wasted in the corruption-laden procurement of personal protective equipment and other supplies, which could have been used to pay for the allowances of health workers. (Screen grab/ Senate PRIB)