MANILA, Philippines–A group of doctors, nurses and other health professionals on Wednesday joined calls for President Aquino’s resignation, citing his alleged cover-up of the Mamasapano debacle.
In a press conference, the group launched the “Rx Aquino Resign Now!” movement, saying they affirm the people’s diagnosis that “Aquino is unfit to lead as President.”
People living in Mindanao need medicines, not bullets, and doctors, not soldiers, a community doctor said.
The all-out offensive launched by the Armed Forces of the Philippines against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) would only add to the number of casualties in the Mamasapano tragedy, Dr. Joseph Carabeo, president of the Community Medicine Practitioners and Advocates Association, said.
Mamasapano, where 44 Special Action Force commandos, 18 Moro fighters and at least five civilians were killed in January, does not even have a health facility, Carabeo noted.
Bullets before medicines
“Having a health center should be a priority but bullets come before medicines and the military before doctors,” he said.
The government’s negligence in ensuring the health and well-being of its people and his alleged cover-up in the Mamasapano fiasco were among the reasons cited by medical practitioners in joining the call for President Aquino’s resignation.
Carabeo said the group could not wait for Aquino to end his term in 2016 because the country is in a critical situation where “every minute, every second counts.”
“If we let Aquino stay in power and in control of all the agencies and policies, it will spell more disasters, more suffering, more diseases and more illnesses,” the community doctor for nearly three decades now said.
Dr. Jean Lindo, chair of “Rx for Peace” in Mindanao, said Aquino should resign because of his incompetence to lead, inability to take responsibility and by aggravating the situation in Mindanao through the all-out offensive against the BIFF.
Stop all-out war
Based on her experiences in medical missions in war-torn areas in Mindanao from former President Joseph Estrada’s all-out war in 2000 to the 2008 conflict arising from the failed memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain during former President Gloria Arroyo’s administration, Lindo said women and children suffer the most.
“The government should stop the all-out offensive because it’s a foolish move,” Lindo, a Davao-based anesthesiologist, said in an interview.
Unhealthy policies
Civilians die and those who survive suffer from trauma and other diseases like diarrhea, respiratory infection, hypertension and mental illnesses each time the government wages war against alleged terrorists in Mindanao, she added.
Citing a government report, Lindo said the month-old operation has forced 80,000 to evacuate and 400 children are sick with respiratory illnesses and other stress-related disorders.
Whoaaa!
Are these really doctors and nurses? Sounds like retards who need to be safely confined and protect them from harming themselves and others. Those soldiers went to Mamasapano to capture a terrorist. It is not like PNoy fooled the people like Bush who claimed there were WMDs in Iraq and Sadam was the culprit and causing thousands of Iraqi and US soldiers to perish in Vain in the process.
PNoy is unfairly being skewered in trying to find solution in a protracted conflict in Mindanao. Stop this pathetic Monday morning quarterbacking. No. 1 risk for a soldier is that high probability of being killed in combat and in protecting the state.
Get that straight people...44 soldiers died...that's sad but it is part of soldiering. Can't take that without whining? Take off the uniform and fly a kite.
Gulong gulo na si kagalang kagalang na Pnoy kung ano gagawin nya pra mapahupa galit ng tao. Naghuhugas kamay kasi sa nangyari sa SAF 44. Sabi nga Sen. Osmena hardheaded. Paano kung mag resign si Pnoy si Binay papalit lalong maghihirap bayan natin. cool lang tayo.Antayin na lang natin matapos term nya malapit na naman.
KAYONG MGA NAGTATAGO SA IBANG PANGALAN MGA PUTANGINAN'YO HALATANG HALATANA KAYO.
ANG DCTOR NA ITO ANG KAILANGAN MAGAMOT, HALATADO SA KANYANG PANANALITA NA WALA SA TAMANG PAG IISIP!!
KAILANGAN bang isakripisyo ang kapakanakan ng halos 100 milyong pilipino dahil lang sa pananawagan ng IILAN NA HALATADONG MAY HIDDEN AGENDA SA KANILANG PANANAWAGAN?
3 ang DOCTOR SA PAMILYA KO, PERO kahit, isa sa kanila walang nagsasabi o nagpapahiwatig man lang na dapat mag resign si Pnoy!!!
IKAW Dr Carabao, magkano ba ang bayad ng mga LINTANG GRUPO PARA SA IYONG PANSARILING SALOOBIN?
TUTA KA NG MGA YELLOW DOG O ISA KANG ASO N'YA
Docs, pay your taxes properly, stop robbing your patients, be clinicians and not technicians then you can make tough demands.
KAYO ANG WALANG BUSINESS KUNDI IPAGTANGOL ANG SISTEMANG BULOK AT MGA MAGANANKAW NA POLITIKO. MGA BAYARAN KAYO
I am a psychiatrist and I want Pnoy to resign...before it gets worst.
Aquino is the Best President, Philippines have ever Produce,
Under Aquino, Gumanda ang Takbo ng Economy at Naibalik ang Magandang Image ng Pilipinas,
Under Aquino Naibalik ang Respeto sa mga Pilipino,
Sino Gusto Nyong Ipalet ? Puro lang kayo mga Oppurtunista, at Hindi nyo Iniisip na May Epekto sa Investor Confidence sa bansa ang ginagawa ninyo, mga Estupido kayo.
I am a physician and not a fan of PNoy, but I want Aquino to finish his term because:
1. I dont want Binay to occupy Malacanang
2. I don't want Dr. Hellenita Binay to be the First Lady
3. Our economy is doing well
4. PNoy is the best we've had in recent memory
And for you Pres. Ramos, you're very competent because you were able to make money from the Amari deal and get away with it :(
To those groups who want P'noy to resign, just let him take a neuro test. I will guarantee you he would fail the exam, and you would have the legal basis to have him resign. Neuro test! Neuro test! Neuro test!
Ahahaha ano ba talaga move on or move out?
Mabuti pa si Walden Bello nag move out at move on na. Kailan kaya si Pork King Butthead, CNoy? Ang dakilang nilalang na binola daw ni Purisima at Napenas. Tapos si Napenas ang tatangatanga. Di ba ang binola ang dakilang tatangatanga, CNoy? Kailan ulit ang lucid interval mo?
Because they are being chased by BIR.
Mga hindi nabigyan ng puwesto.
Ang kapal talaga ng mga tao sa bayan natin. Pati mga doktor(kuno) nampupulitika na rin. Malamang si Peping Conjuangco and lady skeleton ang may pakana niyan.
Uy, malapit ng isuspinde si Jejomar Binay, susunod na siya sa anak niya, tapos ngayon baka biglang mgaing presidente pa yan. Nalagot na tayong pobreng mamamayan.
Have they asked themselves "if PNoy resigns, who will replace him?"
President Aquino may not be a competent leader for the country. However, his detractors just need to wait for his term to finish. Besides, they will just elect VP Binay ... and the kingdom comes.
ito ba iyong grupo na ibinuking ng BIR na hindi nagbabayad ng tamang buwis?
sa administrayon lang ni PNOy nangyari ito kaya nakikisakay na rin sila sa mga panawagang pababain na sa pwesto ang presidenteng galit sa magnanakaw. hahahaha
Unfit to become President, how come? When PNoy is the only President who has elevated to the consciousness of other nations in the world. We gained respect because of his reformist efforts that were not seen in all other past administrations. He may have flaws and sometimes speaks like without tact, but that does not diminish what he has done for the country that even FVR who calls PNoy unpresidential could not claim to match.
These rainy days that Aquino is going through seems to to be developing into a major storm. The question now is "Can he weather the storm?"
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