Department of Health(DOH)

November 21, 2017 Dear Marcia Czarina Corazon Medina-Guce, In accordance with the Executive Order No. 2, s. 2016 Freedom of Information (FOI), the Department of Health recognizes the indispensable right of Filipinos to access information and the duty of the government to disclose information on matters of public concern. However, due to the transition of FOI internal program management, some of the FOI requests, including this transaction were lost to follow up and were not processed within the prescribed timeline. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you and would like to clarify if you still need the data you requested. Kindly respond to this message if you still want to pursue or terminate the request. If you would not response in 60 calendar days, the FOI Registry System will close your request. Thank you. Respectfully, FOI Unit

Feb 14, 2018 Dear Marcia Czarina Corazon, I refer to my letter of Nov 21, 2017 about your request under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for INFANT MORTALITY RATE PER PROVINCE. In particular, I had requested specific information for you to clarify upon in order for us to proceed with the request. As we have not received a reply within the 60-day working period since the letter requesting for clarification was sent out, we regret to inform you that this request will be closed as of Feb 13, 2018. You may wish to submit a new request describing the specific information you are looking for, and we will be able to consider it under the guidelines as stated in Executive Order No. 2. 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 or visiting our central office. 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, Dr. Kenneth FOI Officer