“KALUSUGAN”(Documentaries)

“KALUSUGAN”
PHILIPPINE AGENDA



HOST
Arnold Clavio

CAST
Di
5 y/o boy

Baby Gugu
Mother of Di

Joel

Ga Bandara
Mother of joel

Deweg Bandara
Father of Ga

Dr. Elvis Crispino
Municipal Health Officer in
South Upi Maguindanao

Dr. Jose Sabili
Philippine Medical Association

Lydia Marcos
TB Patient





SYNOPSIS

Philippine Agenda discovers one town in Maguindanao whose residents have never seen a doctor. Thus, simple sickness like scabies becomes fatal for children. The nearest health center is four hours away by foot. And even if they decide to go there, they will only get paracetamols and vitamins good for ten people!

Di was a 5 year old boy but if you will see he is like a 2 year old boy. This is just because they don’t have sufficient food; they just eat “kamote and kanin” two times a day.

Joel has a “galis” in his body but because the hospital was too far from their houseJoel was not yet seen by the doctor. But Municipal Health Officer Dr. Elvis Crispino walked a kilometers to see Joel and he gave him medicine.

The program also witnessed the last few days of one TB patient, Lydia Marcos. Before her last breath, she mustered the strength to gripe about her empty stomach and her problems about the high prices of medicines. Until the end, she was not able to buy the medicines that were supposed to save her life.

The government must give the five percent budget of the country for the health problem but they only provide the one percent.

Arnold Clavio also personally probed into the miserable situation of some hospitals, specifically in Bacolod and Metro Manila. In Bacolod, he observed that patients have to bring their own cushions or mats and lie down on the cold floor because hospital beds and rooms are already full.
The hospital cannot accommodate all the patients. Some of them are laid in a cartoon because of insufficient tools and beds. And because there are many patients the doctor have ten patients instead of three patients only a day and same through with the nurses.

Filipinos are suffering in this kind of situation because of poverty. Some don’t have foods to overcome their hunger.


COMMENT

This episode is definitely an eye opener on the deterioration health condition and health system in the country.

Filipinos are truly suffered from many different problems. The problem from health is one of the situations that the government must overcome because there are many Filipinos died from different illness because the public hospitals cannot handle all the patients and because of lack of technology to use.

If the government can only provide the 11.4 billion pesos for the department of health the one percent of the National Budget I think we can minimize this situation.