Opposition Sen. Leila de Lima on Thursday slammed the Department of Health (DoH) for continuously turning a blind eye on the plight and the needs of medical frontliners in the country.
De Lima said that despite Palace officials repeated lauding of doctors, nurses, and other medical staff who sacrificed life, time, and effort to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, it cannot hide the “reeking stench of squalor and failure” to provide adequate support and equipment to these frontliners.
“However, they, who we laud as heroes, are now crying foul. The worst part of it all is the fact that these big hospitals are within an arm’s reach of the Department of Health, and yet, the very Department which is to stir this nation to survival, has either numb senses to realize the crisis that is happening within its very backyard, or has actually just opted to turn a blind eye,” De Lima lamented.
“But true to this administration’s manifest benightedness to the struggles of health workers in government hospitals, DoH said that they are now preparing government hospitals to adjust the number of beds because ‘we have to be ready for this because we are in a crisis’,” she stressed.
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