Youth leaders intensify calls for universal healthcare

Witness the launch of a growing youth movement.

Youth leaders are realizing their massive potential as catalysts for the realization of universal healthcare. As such, on May 10, Friday, student leaders will gather together to advocate reforms for the healthcare system. The National Institutes of Health at the University of the Philippines Manila will play host to this call for change.

[Feature Article] Why the country needs universal health care

Why the country needs universal health care

by Alvin Cloyd Dakis, RN
Posted on 05/01/2013 1:15 AM  | Updated 05/01/2013 9:12 AM

Original Link: http://www.rappler.com/move-ph/27195-universal-health-care                                 

When I became a nurse, universal health care was never on my mind. As fresh nursing graduates, only a few of us would even think of joining the public health force then. Many of us thought at the time that community health was one of the most uninteresting and lowly fields of all in the nursing practice.

I studied nursing with perks of being a nurse abroad in mind, like receiving higher earnings than those employed locally as some of my professors said.

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