Katribu Cites Courageous Women Health Workers

Katribu Cites Courageous Women Health Workers

By MARYA SALAMAT

MANILA — Most of the Philippines’s indigenous peoples live in the mountains or in farflung hard-to-reach villages seldom reached by government’s social services, including health care. “Often, we only receive health care and needed medical attention through medical missions and health services being provided by community health workers,” Richard Gadid, an Ifugao Tuwali and treasurer of Katribu Partylist, said Saturday before members of the press and relatives of 43 detained health workers.

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