The healthcare system in the Philippines is failing ordinary

The healthcare system in the Philippines is failing ordinary people, but what can be done?

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Essential medicines cost at least three times more than international prices in the Philippines. Nurses are overworked and underpaid. The sick have resorted to camping on hospital sidewalks as they wait to be seen. Teresa Tang sits down with CNA’s Buena Bernal to talk about the state of the healthcare system in the Philippines and why it’s falling short. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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