By MARYA SALAMAT
“Every life is valuable,” Remy Maltu, union president of the San Lazaro Hospital, said, adding that whether less or more are becoming afflicted today by dengue, the patients still need medical services which public hospitals are becoming more and more constrained to provide with cuts in their budgets.
Sidebar: Community health workers criticize government’s inadequate response to dengue
By Bulatlat.com Main Story: Lack of comprehensive solution to periodic dengue outbreaks decried MANILA — “It is normal for dengue cases to rise at this time of the year.” Such is the comment you hear from some of the government’s health officials. The statement is a bitter irony for the community health workers who rallied…
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Ni Simoun Garyo Ilag Nang maisip mo nang umalis at mangibangbayan Duon magtrabaho at makipagsapalaran Titiisin ang lungkot sa pamilyang iiwanan Kumita ng dolyar sa pagisilbi sa dayuhan. Sapagkat sa tingin mo kung mananatili ka rito Mamumuhay sa gutom at hindi aasenso Magkaroon ka ba naman ng manhid na gobyerno Na hindi inaalantana paghihirap ng…
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com DLUMAY, Sarangani — We were trekking the Lunkan Range for nearly six hours. Exhausted and thirsty, I was desperate to reach Sitio Dlumay at the soonest possible time. There was hardly an opportunity to crack a joke regarding what we were going through. But while I was bravely walking…
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com In his second State of the Nation Address, President Benigno Aquino III has made the banning of car sirens called wang-wang as a symbolism of how his government has supposedly put a stop to the abuse of power and corruption. However, the wang-wang might no longer be heard often in the…
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Let me share with you this heart-tugging story, still unfolding, of six Blaan tribal communities in Malapatan, Sarangani province: Dlumay, Datalnay, Dungan Bahay, Alna, Q-gam, and Siman. These communities are part of the hinterland barangay of Upper Suyuan. Yet they are not included in…
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Of late the Aquino government’s peace panel negotiating with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) has aggressively stepped up its propaganda offensive against the NDFP and the latter’s main component organizations, the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People’s Army (CPP/NPA). This is a departure…