The medical community said it had no intention of urging a revolt when it sounded the alarm that the health system was on the brink of collapse.
But PCP president Mario Panaligan said in the group’s letter to the President, “It was not the intention of the media forum to humiliate the administration and the IATF . The call was for the DOH and IATF to provide the health care workers a fighting chance in the war against COVID and prevent unnecessary fatalities—nothing more.”
A unified statement by the medical community said in part, “Our health-care workers are falling ill as they take care of patients, responding to the call of duty while battling the fear and anxiety COVID-19 brings. Our health-care workers are burnt out with the seemingly endless number of patients trooping to our hospitals for emergency care and admission.
“If we went through the usual process, how much time will it take us and for consequent action to be done? ” Limpin said in a phone interview. “We hold the DOH and the Duterte government accountable for their negligence and failure in handling this pandemic because, [now] more than ever, health workers’ lives matter,” the protesting health workers also said.Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said Duterte’s dare of a revolution stemmed from a song from the musical “Les Miserables,” which went viral in recent days.
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