Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
Sixty percent of Filipinos die without seeing a doctor. This is according to the 2013 Philippine Health Statistics of the Department of Health (DoH). Interestingly, this was the same finding of the DoH-Philippine Institute of Development Studies Baseline Studies on Health Care Financing Reforms conducted in 1991. In short, over a span of 25 years, we have not made a dent on a very important measure of access to health care. Both human resources for health and health infrastructure are severely lacking.
Patients who recovered from Covid-19, make their way out of the Manila Covid-19 Field Hospital at the Rizal Park at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila.
The Manila Covid-19 Field Hospital serves mild and moderate coronavirus cases. It is one of the responses of Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso to the problem of lack of hospital beds in Manila. PHOTOS BY ENRIQUE AGCAOILI