President Duterte was a pathetic figure last Sunday during his televised response to the appeal of health workers for a “time out” to assess the government’s strategy in dealing with the Covid-19 crisis which they said was “failing miserably.”
The health workers’ appeal for a “time out” to assess the government’s response to the Covid-19 crisis was a stinging indictment of its failure to competently address the problem even with a severe four -month lockdown.
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS THE Philippine College of Physicians, headed by Dr. Anthony Leachon, is recommending that the Philippine government require returning Filipinos from West Africa, where there is a widespread outbreak of the killer disease Ebola, to undergo exit screening there before being allowed to come home. That is on top of the
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS THE wealth of a nation is its people. It goes without saying that a healthy population is a prerequisite for a country to progress. Healthy people live longer and are more productive. On Monday, President Aquino will deliver his 5th State of the Nation Address. The country’s health workers yesterday
By Ellen T. Tordesillas When a combative President Aquino addressed the nation Monday last week defending his Disbursement Accelerated Program or DAP which had been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, he made it appear that the projects funded by DAP were cases that bordered between life and death. To underscore the purported urgent nature
