KIDAPAWAN CITY—The ordeal of the vice mayor of Antipas town, Cotabato province provides a picture of how bad the COVID-19 situation is in some Mindanao areas, including Davao City, President Rodrigo Duterte’s hometown.
Antipas Vice Mayor Christobal Cadungon was first confined in a private hospital in this city on June 4 after he developed fever, which he said he initially thought was caused by the blisters that he found growing on his back, and he also suffered from diarrhea.
Cadungon is still on quarantine but recalled what he had to endure to get hospital admission, his story among many that would show how health systems are under unprecedented assault as a result of the pandem…
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