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GLIMPSES By Jose Ma. Montelibano How can we help the poor when we do not feel for them? How can we feel for them when we have no relationship? How can we relate to them when they have no names, no faces, no parents, no brothers and sisters, no children – they have all been lumped inside the word “poor.” When I criticized the Philippine Read More …
GLIMPSES By Jose Ma. Montelibano I decided to take on the objectionable posture of a government agency, the Philippine Regulatory Commission, in trying to apply guidelines and provisions over foreign medical missions that discourage rather than facilitate. It is this posture of PRC that reeks of utak wang-wang, that places people of authority disdainful of the plight of the poor. Unfortunately, that posture does not Read More …
By Leonardo O. Aromin Phoenix, Az- Filipino doctors in the U.S. have a “sigh of relief” when the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) of the Philippines “has suspended two controversial provisions” that have been the subject of vehement objection and protest of Filipino doctors and other medical practitioners in the U.S. The bone of contention is a regulation that increased the permit fees of foreign medical Read More …
Glimpses By Jose Ma. Montelibano The PRC is the Philippine Regulatory Commission. I believe it is tasked to regulate licenses of professionals like doctors, nurses, engineers, etc. I have never dealt with the PRC although I have been approached by interested parties asking for endorsements to become commissioners in this agency. Of course, I never got to accommodate any of these requests because I have Read More …
August 31, 2012 Evelyn C. Duriman Project Management Division Commission on Filipinos Overseas Dear Ms Duriman, Thank you for your update on the suspension of the two controversial provisions in the PRC regulation on medical missions. I am happy to note that you, CFO officer in charge of Medical Missions, were sorry that some of the US medical missions to the Philippines were cancelled…”inspite of Read More …
Here below is a most encouraging news from CFO Chair, Mely Nicolas, who has worked very hard to help convince the powers-that-be in the Philippines to revise the very restrictive and unfair PRC Guidelines for foreign medical missionaries to the Philippines. – Philip S. Chua, MD, FACS, FPCS, Chairman, Filipino United Network (USA) scalpelpen@gmail.com August 17, 2012 To all medical missioners, Warmest greetings from the Read More …
BY CESAR D. CANDARI, MD FCAP EMERITUS HENDERSON, NEVADA FOR A NUMBER OF years before and after my retirement, I joined groups of medical missionaries to the Philippines. From 1987 (after the People Power Revolution) to the present, I participated to help the poor people in our country who needed medical care. In some instance, I was a leader in this project. The medical mission Read More …