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More Doctors Join PGH Protest Despite Warnings, Threats

More Doctors Join PGH Protest Despite Warnings, Threats

By MARYA SALAMAT
A hundred doctors and medical professors on mass leave in UP-PGH (University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital), supported by UP and PGH employees, defied last Monday a memo issued by the ‘de-facto’ PGH director Dr. Enrique Domingo and a warning raised by the Civil Service Commission (CSC) Chairman Francisco T. Duque III against their joining “disruptive” protest actions and taking part in mass leaves.

Crisis Worsens at PGH as Topnotch Doctors, Medical Professors Go on Mass Leave

Crisis Worsens at PGH as Topnotch Doctors, Medical Professors Go on Mass Leave

By MARYA SALAMAT
The crisis at the Philippine General Hospital worsened last week as 75 of the hospital's topnotch and highly qualified doctors and medical professors went on mass leave starting March 29 to express “anger and dismay over the oppression and dubious removal from office” of the hospital's director, Dr. Jose Gonzales. They said, however, that they would still respond to emergency or life-threatening cases.

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