CHILD OF THE SUN: Demons and Doctors II
The problem of medical economics is part of the problem of world economics and is inseparable and indivisible from it. Medicine, as we are practicing it today, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread for the price of jewels. The poor who comprise 80% of our population cannot pay and starve; the doctors cannot sell and suffer. The people have no health protection and the doctors, no economic security.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 August) -- I wish I said that.
But they were said more than 70 years ago by Dr. Henry Norman Bethune, a brilliant Canadian Thoracic Surgeon, painter, poet, inventor, originator of the first MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital), and dedicated teacher to those who worked alongside this indefatigable person. He died on November 13, 1939 in North China, fighting for his ideals in Mao Tse Tung’s army against the invading imperial Japanese army.
Mindanao has six (6) political divisions; Zamboanga Peninsula (Region IX), Northern Mindanao (Region X), Davao Region (Region XI), SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII), CARAGA (Region XIII) and Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
