Senator Ralph Recto: “Inconsequential agencies are seen as an expense vital to democracy, then why should medical scholarshaips be disparaged as a nonessential luxury?”
According to Recto, who cited the Department of Health’s report, the Philippines’ population of 106.9 million lacks 78,400 doctors if the ratio of 10 doctors to 10,000 people is followed.
“This is about future-proofing our country, so we can serve both ends of the demographic scale,” said Recto. “On one end is that four babies are born every minute in this land. 6,120 every 24 hours. 2.23 million a year. We love babies so much that we produce them in an industrial scale.” A couple of decades ago, the Philippines had 4.6 million people aged 60-years-old and above but in 2020 that increased to nearly 10 million.
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