KUDOS to the Gat Andres Bonifacio Memorial Medical Center (GABMMC) for its non-stop efforts in improving the services it offers to its patients, particularly the residents of District 1 (Tondo).
GABMMC Director Dr. Ted Martin has previously proposed a new emergency department. Recently, he announced over social media that the construction of this proposed department will already start soon.
According to Dr. Martin, the plan is in line with the continued efforts of the hospital to provide quality medical services to the residents of the city. Particularly, the construction of a new emergency department that will help the hospital accommodate more is aimed at addressing the ever-growing number of Manilans with urgent medical needs.
The good doctor also stated that the new emergency department is just one of the many hospital projects that he had lined up and aim to finish one by one, with the purpose of expanding and improving further the medical services of GABMMC. Dr. Martin is indeed an asset to the city government of Manila.
For starters, he is a doctor from St. Luke’s Hospital whose reputation precedes him, as a very good doctor who has the kind of heart for the poor needed and required of anyone who heads a public hospital.
Unlike the Ospital ng Maynila, the GABMMC is a much smaller hospital in terms of space and facilities.
It is for this reason that given the number of residents in the district that GABMMC covers, which is the very populous area of Tondo, it is so surprising how the said hospital continues to manage the volume of day-to-day patients coming in, also given its limited resources.
Even if the hospital is full to the brim, that hospital does not turn away patients when others normally would.
For this alone, we take our hats off to Dr. Martin and all his staff who do everything humanly possible to attend to each and every case that comes their way.
Truly, this is public service at its best.
The idea broached by Senator Jinggoy Estrada to ban Korean telenovelas or K-dramas in the country has been met with so much bashing on social media.
In his pronouncements, Sen. Jinggoy apparently projects the image of an actor championing the welfare of his colleagues, specially when he said that local artists have been losing their jobs because of the Korean shows.
Instead of banning the K-dramas, Estrada should better formulate ways to upgrade the standards of telenovela making and educate the producers, writers and directors of local shows on how to come up with plots that would stir the interest of the Filipino viewers who have apparently got tired of shouting and slapping matches and lousy storylines.
I myself have watched a couple of Netflix series that are Korean-made and indeed, the plots and twists are good that one gets hooked. Unlike Pinoy dramas, the Korean films do not even have kissing or steamy scenes.
It’s worth studying what makes these K-dramas click and let our local producers, directors and actors learn. There is nothing wrong with copying if it would redound to better shows and higher audiences.
Killing the foreign shows in an effort to leave the Filipino televiewers no choice but to patronize the local ones is just a pathetic idea.
If indeed banning the Korean shows is the solution to revive the local showbiz industry, then the prohibition should also cover all other foreign films or drama shows that are shown on HBO and other similar channels offering such Hollywood movies, for instance. Why be selective?
Banning any foreign TV series of films for that matter is never the solution to the problems confronting the local film industry. Duh.
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