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Health care delivery in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) gets a needed shot in the arm through a partnership with the governments of the United States, Japan and South Korea.
On Friday, the BARMM’s Ministry of Health (MOH) inked a memorandum of cooperation with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica), Korea International Cooperation Agency (Koica) and the US Agency for International Development (Usaid) to improve health outcomes in the region whose population is slowly rising from the ashes of more than four decades of separatist rebellion.
Now on its fifth year, the BARMM imbibes the aspiration for Moro self-governance and was created to honor the 1996 and 2014 peace deals between the national government and two Moro revolutionary movements.
Currently led by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the region has struggled to address a host of serious health issues, such as maternal and child mortality, low immunization levels and malnutrition among children.
With lower incomes, a big part of the population is dependent on the government for their health-care needs.
Under the new partnership, Japan, Korea and the US will invest a total of P1.
