Doc Mikee quietly works in a corner of a 63-square-meter room located at the ground floor of the Schools Division of San Jose City. This room, which she shares with a dentist and three nurses, serves
She tinkers with her laptop keyboard as she contemplates her next move in fighting the unseen enemy. How she has been able to do her enormous tasks in this sparse war room doesn’t matter, at least for someone like her whose mantra is “Para sa bata.”
She herself initiated a fundraising campaign by tagging her friends on Facebook, her pleas reverberating as far as the FB could reach. This enabled her to purchase personal protective equipment for local frontliners. While so many others in the medical profession have left the Philippines, some flaunting on social media their easy life in their foster country, this DepEd doctor has stayed, checking up on pupils including those in the last mile schools, particularly when the world was still COVID-19 free. She dealt with them even during the most unholy hours of the day.
She has been relentless in her advocacy for better health care. During this year’s World Teachers’ Day celebration, the CLSU Sigma Beta Fraternity/Sigma Beta Sorority organized a virtual concert featuring Noel Cabangon. While the concert was being livestreamed on Facebook, Doc Mikee appealed for donations, its proceeds to be used for the purchase of pulse oximeters to be given to teachers.
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