Poverty threatening health care in the Philippines

[dArKeR]

Sometime in the near future, the Philippines will run out of anaesthetists. Obstetricians are also a dwindling breed, and pediatricians may not be far behind.

They are among eight million Filipinos -- nearly a 10th of the population -- working abroad, abandoning their poor homeland for better paid, but lesser skilled jobs overseas.

The brain drain is so huge it is threatening the very fabric of the nation.

Medical school enrollment plunged 20 percent last year and one school has already been forced to close. Ten medical schools and two provincial hospitals are threatening to close.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worldbiz/archives/2005/04/23/2003251663

Can Franken play the tape of aWol reading, "The Philippines is the example for all Democracies to follow." aWol read these words in Subic Bay when he ran away from America.


Three children have sandals

[oblivious]

1. To think it used to be richer than Japan in the 60s.

The quote should go: "The Philippines is an example of how corruption can turn one of Asia's richest countries into one of its poorest."

[Erika]

2. Poverty threatens health care in the U.S.

and Bush could care less.

[sonicx]

3. Their head of state is up Bush's ass too...

Aren't they lucky. :sarcasm: