The wretched condition of the public health system was pushed into public view at the onset of the pandemic. Overburdened by yearly budget cuts especially during the Duterte regime, public hospitals bled from lack of equipment and personnel. The nurses, whose number was cut down by at least 7,000 in 2019 due to budget deficit, … Continue reading A public health system battered by the regime’s budget cuts, corruption cases, and neoliberal policies