Monthly Archives: July 2009

15 years ago

A doctors death and the dying health system

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Dr. Bong Peera. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)

DAVAO CITY (davaotoday.com) While more health workers chose to go abroad to look for greener pastures, Dr. Rogelio Bong Peera, 45, opted to stay. But on June 24 this year, his killers took his life.

His brother Carlos Peera said he learned from the neighbors that men aboard an L200 vehicle had been asking about Dr. Peera a few days before he was killed.

Dr. Jean Lindo, a member of the doctors group Rx for Peace, said that amidst the continuing migration of doctors out of the country, Peeras death was a big loss. Read on.