The hard math of infrastructure plunder
THE COST OF GRAFT (AT A GLANCE) ?545.6 Billion: Total flood mitigation allocation (July 2022 – May 2025). ?42B – ?118B: Public funds lost to corruption and wasted projects in…
Why POLITICIANS are dangerous to our health
Look around you. Ask yourself a simple question: Why is getting sick in the Philippines still a death sentence for the poor? When a mother has to queue at three…
When inflation targets women
Inflation is often discussed in numbers: percentages, forecasts and policy targets. But behind those figures are lives, and in the Philippines today, it is women in marginalized sectors who are…
The malpractice of speech: How red-tagging inverts the medical oath
Every physician remembers the gravity of the words they spoke upon entering the medical profession. Chief among them, rooted in the Hippocratic tradition, is a foundational baseline of human decency:…
The symptom is opacity, the cure is accountability
I will not write about the ongoing impeachment proceeding definitely not as a lawyer nor political scientist. I will write about it as a community doctor, a defender of women’s…