Senate to pay tribute to Flavier

MANILA, Philippines – The Senate will pay tribute to the late senator and former health secretary Juan Flavier, who passed away at age 79 last Thursday.

The Office of the Senate President is making arrangements for the necrological rites for Flavier, tentatively scheduled on Nov. 11 or when Congress resumes session on Nov. 17.

Flavier’s remains are to be brought to the Department of Health in Manila today, and will be cremated tomorrow.

Visitors continued to flock to the Church of the Risen Lord at the University of the Philippines Diliman campus on Saturday to pay their respects to Flavier.

Among the visitors was Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada.

He shared fond memories with Flavier’s wife as he remembered working with the former health chief during the term of former President Fidel Ramos.

Estrada was then head of the defunct Presidential Anti-Crime Commission.