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Understaffed, underpaid and overworked to the point of exhaustion, staff battle on to care for virus victims
Exhausted nurses in the Philippines are struggling to care for patients as colleagues contract Covid-19 or quit a profession that was dangerously understaffed even before the pandemic. (...)
(1st UPDATE) To cut down on PPE costs, the nurses were asked to wear adult diapers and work for 12 hours per shift in a COVID-19 facility.
Many nurses at the city hall-run Dr. Jorge P. Royeca Memorial Hospital (DJPRMH) have left and found work elsewhere due to pressures and poor working (...)
The daily Jeddojehad [Struggle], a leftwing online Urdu-language daily in Pakistan is posting reports from Kabul. Filed by Yasmeen Afghan [not the real name], these reports depict picture from inside Kabul and cover what is often ignored in the mainstream. For a wider circulation, these reports (...)
As elsewhere, the Delta variant has become dominant in the Philippines, causing a new wave of infections, more serious than the previous one. Despite this, the Duterte presidency is acting as if the epidemic is already behind us. The proposed budget, currently under legislative discussion, does (...)
Participants of the demonstrations repeat their demand for Health Secretary Francisco Duque to resign over his failure to attend to the needs of frontline workers.
MANILA, Philippines
Pandemic health workers who have had enough of the meager pay that comes with their dangerous job took to the (...)
Bad pay and conditions at home and demand for Filipino nursing skills overseas have left the country with a soaring death rate.
The Covid Delta variant has swept across south-east Asia over recent months, prompting lockdowns and overwhelming hospitals – from Malaysia to Thailand and Indonesia. (...)
Bad pay and conditions at home and demand for Filipino nursing skills overseas have left the country with a soaring death rate
The Covid Delta variant has swept across south-east Asia over recent months, prompting lockdowns and overwhelming hospitals – from Malaysia to Thailand and Indonesia. (...)
The Philippines’ government has to change course on the pandemic and focus on helping the poor stay afloat.
In the past couple of weeks, community pantries have mushroomed all over the Philippines. The poor, left with no other options, formed long lines in the summer heat, under threat of (...)
A year has passed since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the Philippines and recovery is still nowhere near in sight. The Department of Health (DoH) has noted that the total number of cases has surpassed 1.2 million, in a country of more than a 100 million (DoH, 28 May 2021). In an attempt to contain (...)
Continuing Executive Dominance, Threats to Democracy, and Unclear Pandemic Response
The Philippines have one of the longest lockdowns in the world in response to COVID-19. This post reviews the past year, focusing on the main legal and political issues as well as prospects in the country with (...)
According to the World Health Organisation, the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the Philippines on 20 January 2020. More than a year after, there are now more than 600,000 confirmed cases, nearly 13,000 deaths and a surge of 5000 new cases in one day. Approximately 41 percent of the (...)
A year ago, the whole of Luzon was placed in one of the longest and most brutal lockdowns in the world to contain a fast-spreading deadly virus with the rest of the country following later. A year has passed, yet Filipinos continue to struggle against the hardships brought about by the COVID-19 (...)
MANILA – For weeks now, the Philippines is experiencing a surge in the number of daily COVID-19 cases. The government, however, is responding to the pandemic as if it were only yesterday – still clueless, still grappling, still militarist.
Since the pandemic broke last year, the likes of Josh (...)
’The only silver lining to this scandal is that the vaccine the VIPs received is apparently one made by a state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical company, Sinopharm, with a terrible safety record’
The VIP vaccine scandal has shocked the public into learning that the operative policy of the Duterte (...)
The operative policy of the Duterte gang when it comes to Covid-19 vaccination is it’s every man for himself. Screw the absence of FDA authorization of a vaccine before it can be used in the country. Screw the prioritization by the IATF of frontline health workers, seniors, and the poor. (...)
In more than nine months of community quarantine in the country, law enforcers have warned, given tickets to, and arrested about 598,000 persons, whom they call “pasaway,” for allegedly violating quarantine and health protocols meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (...)
President Rodrigo Duterte and his government met the deluge of inaccurate claims about the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with a clampdown on what it referred to as “fake news.”
Unfortunately, even public officials, to whom Filipinos look for guidance and reliable information, were (...)
Medical journal The Lancet ranks Philippines 66th among 91 countries in coronavirus suppression, noting President Rodrigo Duterte’s ’medical populism’ as a factor
After the Philippines was ranked by 66th among 91 countries in a study by an independent medical journal submitted to the UN General (...)
The demand for abolition becomes urgent in the face of a highly militarized response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.
The COVID-19 pandemic has truly brought out the worst in the Philippine government. Instead of treating the pandemic as a public health crisis, the state is (...)
Often, our greatest problem is the failure to understand the true nature of the problems we face. And here lies the root cause of many developing countries’ inability to overcome perennial challenges of governance.
With the Philippines confronting one of the worst public health and economic (...)
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