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Agricultura Para sa Magbubukid Foundation (APMFI) [8] Countrywide Agri and Rural Economic Development (CARED) Foundation [8] Masaganang Ani Para sa Magsasaka Foundation, Inc (MAMFI) [8] People's Organization for Progress and Development Foundation (POPDFI) [8] Philippine Agri and Social Development Foundation Inc. [8]
The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF, popularly called "pork barrel"), a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development ...
Recorded rumors of organ theft, particularly involving the theft of one or both kidneys, have been spreading since 1994. [3] These rumors may have originated from a news story involving a Turkish man named Ahmet Koc, who claimed that his kidney was stolen while he was in a hospital.
The Sandiganbayan's fourth division, in a resolution promulgated on October 27, 2023, but made public the following month, granted the motions filed by Napoles, by a president of non-government organization Philippine Social Development Foundation Inc., as well as by four former officials of the Department of Agriculture–Caraga, to dismiss ...
The charity was called Modest Needs but federal prosecutors who filed charges against its founder say his weren't. Rather, prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan say, Modest Needs ...
Back in the UK, he worked on the liver transplant programme at the Royal Free Hospital in London. [6] In 1993, Wakefield attracted professional attention when he published reports in which he concluded that measles virus might cause Crohn's disease ; [ 37 ] and two years later he published a paper in The Lancet proposing a link between the ...
The cost of a liver transplant and one year of follow-up care was $450,000 in 2005. UCLA declined two livers while waiting for insurance approval from Cigna. Ms. Sarkisyan's family was also informed that they could proceed with the transplant if they could make a down-payment of $75,000.
The Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) was a discretionary fund in the Philippines available to members of Congress.Originally established as the Countrywide Development Fund (CDF) in 1990, it was designed to allow legislators to fund small-scale infrastructure or community projects which fell outside the scope of the national infrastructure program, which was often restricted to ...