- Francisco Duque
appointed him as President & CEO of the Phil Health Insurance Corporation or PhilHealth. Under the leadership of Pres. Duque, PhilHealth successfully implemented the enrollment of 5.9 million families or 29,901,890 beneficiaries under the GMA Sponsored/Plan5-25 Program of 2004.
He became Cabinet Secretary in October 11, 2004 and appointed as secretary of Health on June 1, 2005, having been confirmed by the Senate Commission on Appointments on
June 11 , 2008. [ [http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=121412 abs-cbnnews.com, CA confirms Gonzalez, Puno and others] ]Duque finished his
Bachelor of Science at theUniversity of Santo Tomas in 1978. He finished hisDoctor of Medicine also at the same university in 1982; hisMaster of Science atGeorgetown University in 1987.He undertook an Immunology Scientific Training at Georgetown University School of Medicine from 1985-1988. He also took his Post-Graduate Course, Executive Education on Health Program Management at the
Harvard University School of Public Health and Graduate School of Management in 1992.Duque is married and has five children.
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