MANILA, Philippines — Health workers were dismayed after their request for a dialogue with President Rodrigo Duterte was instead referred to the Department of Health (DOH) and the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF).
According to the Alliance of Health Workers (AHW), they were led to think that the President was willing to sit down with medical frontliners to talk about the dire conditions at their workplaces due to the COVID-19 pandemic, taking after the statement of presidential spokesperson Harry Roque.
The group was however surprised to find out that their request had instead been turned over to the DOH and IATF, the two a…
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