There’s more to setting up Botika
Posted on July 17, 2007 - Filed Under Punch Forum |
Eduardo Pontaoe
17 July 2007
Mr. Alex de Guzman:
Botika sa Barangay, Mr. de Guzman, is easier said than done. It could be the best project you'd ever heard. It could also be your worse nightmare.
Dr. Canto's notion in bringing the drugstore to the barrio is "acceptable", but how about the mechanics to dispense the drugs?
The question. Is the barrio captain qualified to handle such delicate undertaking? Is there enough personnel educated to know the pharmacology of drugs distributed?
You cannot just store drugs in such a setting manage by unqualified people who hands it out like candies in election time. It's waste of time and tax pesos, and kills people, too, more than cure.
Dr. Jesus Canto should know better than this. We haven't heard or read the framework how this program will work. How this program can be sustained in the future and what kind of drugs generalized, that addresses the predominant diseases in these communities, then it is questionable, its purpose is just as fuzzy like the fog at Salapingao.
And Dr. Canto's elementary concept of the distance of the barrios to the city when the need arises, is academic. With the trikes in the thousands and boats at Salapingao and Swit readily available, the drugstores are not that far upfront.
This idea of Dr. Canto is very much copied from the medical missions mounted yearly by doctors coming from America. Pure I hope Dr. Jesus Canto and those councilors at city hall should wake up from their very . . . very . . . very early stupor and look themselves in the mirror if this is the right thing to do.
Quo vadis, Mayor Al ?
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