Duterte's promises

  1. Education will be the second priority in the budget, after agriculture and before health.
  2. Teachers' salary will be doubled by 6 years.
  3. Government will build adequate classrooms for students.
  4. Government will provide scholarships for children of members of the military who die in the line of duty.
  5. School subjects such as algebra, calculus, and trigonometry should be replaced with business mathematics.
  6. All hospitals will be required to have a facility for indigent patients, with government paying for the health services using PhilHealth reserve funds, sin tax revenues, and the budget of the health department.
  7. Government will create specialized hospitals in the Visayas and Mindanao.
  8. Government will establish a trust fund for the payment of medical expenses of Filipinos confined in hospitals.
  9. Every barangay will have one doctor – someone who would act as the physician of that barangay.
  10. Government will sustainably push preventive health programs in the country.
  11. Government will create a single, permanent Emergency Response Department in charge of disaster preparedness, relief, and rehabilitation.
  12. Track down dirty factories and install state-of-the-art anti-pollution equipment to reduce the country's carbon emissions.
  13. Strictly implement regulations to ensure mining does not destroy the environment.
  14. Government will lease out lands and islands for 30 to 50 years to developers.
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