Department of Health

February 13, 2020

Dear Lyle Christian Herbosa,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Feb 13, 2020 under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

Your request

You asked for Efficacy of Kiti-Kiti X

Response to your request

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance this Office does not have [some of]* the information you have requested. We would deny the requested documents for you already have possession of these files. (see attached response from the DOH Disease Prevention and Control Bureau) 

Furthermore, we would like to reiterate the response of the Presidential Communications Operations Office to Mr. Herbosa (Annex B), which states that “Exceptions to EO No. 2, s. 2016. Exceptions 1.b. provides that matters covered by deliberative process privilege are exempted from disclosure, namely:
i, Advisory opinions, recommendations and deliberations compromising
part of a process by which governmental decisions and policies are
formulated; intra-agency or inter-agency recommendations or
communications during the stage when common assertions are still in the
process of being formulated or are in the exploratory stage; or
information pertaining to the decision-making of executive officials, and
ii. Information, record or document compromising drafts of decisions,
orders, rulings, policy decisions, memoranda, etc.

The above mentioned documents, being predecisional and deliberative falls under this exception. Hence, the DOH may deny your request for information”

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Your right to request a review

If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to Undersecretary Lilibeth C. David, Chair of Data Governance Oversight Committee/ DOH Central Appeals and Review Committee, at foi@doh.gov.ph. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request.

If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011).

Thank you.

Respectfully,
FOI Officer