What really is Council for Health Development?The Council for Health and Development (CHD) is the national organization of non-government community-based health programs (CBHPs) in the Philippines. It is a non-stock, non-profit organization registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.Members are doctors, allied health professionals, health volunteers and some institutions who support community based health care.
This organization finds new approaches to health care, that is suitable and affordable by our locals. This is through training and education of volunteer health workers, in using herbal medicines, acupuncture, and basic approaches to common communicable diseases. It also focuses on preventive medicine, nutrition and hygiene, and essential information to the community who cannot afford the cost of today’s health care system. Likewise it also projects some issues that affect people’s health.The recent military raid in one of its training is really absurd. These people are doctors and volunteers who are captured in the middle of their activity. If these people are there for training in creating explosives, it is silly to conduct it in such a venue, a resort owned by a prominent pediatrician-infectious disease specialist. Is she a doctor turned expert bomb- maker? Ridiculous!! Is bomb making a casual activity you can do in resorts?
For what reason would doctors and health volunteers bring firearms in a resort of a specialist doctor? And if they brought the firearms, why didn’t they use it to defend themselves? Maybe nobody knows how to use it. Or is it their own firearms they saw? When interviewed to be admitted in the college of medicine, It is always a question why do you want to be a doctor? “to serve” , “to help the unprivileged”, “to help address the health concerns of the nation” are the common answers of applicants, as if it is a beauty contest piece. Some of us, or only a few of us after medicine had find a true meaning to the profession. Some sees only the medical condition of the patient and not the social and environmental conditions affecting them. Some had gone to their career as specialist and had barely enough time for service. Some had lost compassion and develop medicine as a sole business.
We had a free will to choose our path. My point is, these doctors had other better opportunities waiting for them; if they have the heart to respond to the needs of the people, they deserve honor and respect. And yet where are they now? They are even deprived of their BASIC HUMAN RIGHT.
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