Alternative Budget Initiative

While calling for the cancellation of the incinerator loan, HCWH- Southeast Asia is at the same time proposing to redirect the appropriation for the debt payments to the delivery of health services instead. This is in partnership with various concerned groups in the Philippines that are working to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

In recognition of the campaign, the Philippine Congress suspended the interest payments for the incinerator loan in the national budget it passed in 2008. Furthermore, it appropriated an additional 100 million pesos (about US $2 million) for the DoH to purchase autoclaves for the disinfection of medical waste.