Taipei Mayor Ko Wenzhe.Photo: Taipei City Government / Provided
Recently, the local epidemic has continued to spread, but Taipei City has caused heated discussions for deleting the 2.8 billion epidemic prevention budget. Mayor Ke Wenzhe pointed out that it was the city council that requested the deletion of the budget. As soon as the remarks came out, they went to the council again. Councillor You Shuhui moved out of Xu Shuhua today (8), saying that they were all opposed to the deletion of the budget at the beginning, but now they have the blame. The two sides are now at war.
Ke Wenzhe believes that the vaccine was out of stock when it was compiled last year, so he hopes to budget for the purchase, but then it raises the possibility of purchase, and whether it will still be distributed by the central ruling after purchase, so the city council deletes this budget or leaves it as an item Have a heated debate.
Looking back at the review meeting held by the Taipei City Council on the budget of the Health Bureau on December 14 last year, it can be seen that more than half of the members present supported the deletion of the budget. There are already so many that they are about to expire, no need to add” and so on.
However, a few members such as Xu Shuhua still believe that the budget should be reserved as an emergency for future epidemic prevention. The budget can be passed by setting the conditions for enabling the budget, such as the attack of a variant virus.
When Ko Wenzhe briefly entered the meeting, he accepted the idea of lawmakers, and both sides agreed that the budget could be deleted.
North City Councilor Liang Wenjie pointed out that the Health Bureau knew the situation and came to lobby the city council to delete the budget and keep only one thousand yuan, so that the item still exists in the budget table. However, most of the members thought that it was meaningless to keep one thousand dollars, so they deleted them all.
Liang Wenjie believes that without the budget of 2.8 billion to buy the epidemic, it does not mean that the city government has no other money to buy other epidemic prevention materials. The mayor and the health bureau have reserves, disaster reserves, and epidemic fundraising. Taipei City didn’t rush to buy the quick-screening agent before, that’s because Ke Wenzhe didn’t deploy it ahead of time, and it has nothing to do with money.
Liang Wenjie suggested that if Ke Wenzhe wants to buy quick-screening agent now, he only needs to find a manufacturer that can supply it, and the CDC has not banned it. The rapid screening agent is different from the epidemic.
This wave of quarrels over the epidemic prevention budget has not ended. What citizens and friends are most concerned about is that they have to queue up to buy quick screening agents every day. When to pick up the units that have been dropped as soon as possible is the top priority.
However, Taipei City has caused heated discussions for deleting the 2.8 billion epidemic prevention budget.Mayor Ke Wenzhe pointed out that it was the city council that asked to delete the budget.
You Shuhui moved out Xu Shuhua today, saying that they were all against the deletion of the budget at the beginning, but now they are taking the blame, and the two sides are now at war.
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