Incoming Department of Social Work and Development secretary Judy Taguiwalo spoke at the Barikadang Bayan opposing the closure of Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital today.
Taguiwalo said people should continue supporting the campaign to save the hospital as it serves poor women.
Medical professionals held another protest rally last May 26 against the so-called transfer of the Fabella Memorial Hospital from its current location to the Department of Health compound later this year.
Alliance of Health Workers members expressed fears that the hospital may go the way of other public hospitals that ask for payment for every service it renders. Read more
Health workers and urban poor residents protested at the gates of the Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in downtown Manila today to denounce its impending closure by the Benigno Aquino government on June 9.
Alliance of Health Workers (AHW) members said that as many as 2,000 patients per day, including hundreds of mostly poor birthing mothers, will lose free medical services offered by the 700-bed hospital when it closes. Read more