Mass testing, according to the petitioners, should be made free and accessible to all suspect cases, contacts of probable and confirmed cases, frontline healthworkers, and high-risk and vulnerable communities.
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How is the Duterte administration faring in the WHO mandate on COVID-19?
On March 26, WHO issued a statement urging countries to not waste time in its efforts against the contagion and gave a list of six actions every country should take immediately. Unfortunately, the Philippine government is found wanting in its efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Mass detention happens due to government’s lockdown inefficiency
As we witness the excruciatingly slow and inefficient governance of this administration, more lives are on the line – not only due to the dreaded disease but also due to hunger and desperation.
No birthing at home not answer to maternal death
“Health facilities should be brought nearer to the mothers and children, not the other way around. This will only happen if government will construct enough health facilities.”
‘Increase’ in health budget deceiving – Alliance of Health Workers

By INA ALLECO SILVERIO
“Under the Aquino administration, public health services are no longer free but they come for a fee.” – Alliance of Health Workers
News in Pictures: No To Public-Private Partnership (PPP)
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY GREGORIO B. DANTES Jr.
Bayan Muna pushes for reforms for elderly, calls for free health services for the poor
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com Despite supposed efforts of the government to stamp it out, health statistics in the country continue to worsen as the most ordinary diseases and viruses like tuberculosis and dengue continue to claim lives. This has prompted the lawmakers of progressive party-list group Bayan Muna to propose free hospitalization for…
Proposed health budget for 2012, ‘inadequate, with wrong priorities’

By MARYA SALAMAT
In a study of the proposed 2012 health budget conducted by the Coalition for Health Budget Increase (CHBI), it found out that the increases in the health budget only “define the Aquino Health Agenda of privatization and commercialization of public health care which will further jeopardize the health of the people.”
Like Arroyo Like Aquino? Same Cabinet/Government – Same Anti-people Policies

By MARYA SALAMAT
Forming his team to set the direction of change or political payback? So far, except for Justice Sec. Leila de Lima, the Cabinet of Pres. Benigno Aquino III is a mixture of key figures in his campaign, representatives of big business, and old hands of the former Arroyo administration.
Health Group Says AFP Desperate, Name-Drops DOH and PMA
Media Release 21 March 2010 There is no official statement from either the Department of Health or the Philippine Medical Association stating that the 43 detainees are not health workers. According to Health Alliance for Democracy, neither the DOH nor the PMA has made any such statement and that once again, the desperate Armed Forces…
OFWs Decry Proposed Mandatory AIDS Test
An alliance of overseas Filipino workers decried the proposed mandatory Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) test for OFWs. They said that OFWs are now singled out as ‘AIDS-carriers.’ BY Bulatlat.com MIGRANT WATCH Volume VIII, Number 31, September 7-13, 2008 “From Psych test to AIDS test, what else?” asked the largest alliance of overseas Filipino workers…