unified in the fight for collective survival uncuffed is an organization of dozens of teenagers trying to fill india's gets in health care crowd sourcing medical supplies through social media you are working on 11 o'clock in the morning with your guy in midnight who added white swan tar has her exams coming up but for her and many others the real tear is finding a way to keep the people alive shallop bellus al-jazeera. again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera in the u.s. for minneapolis police officer derek shows in is asking for a new trial citing multiple grounds including jury misconduct last month chauvin was convicted of 2nd and 3rd degree murder as well as manslaughter for the killing of george floyd mike hanna has more from washington this motion was not at all an

expected in fact it had been predicted that there would be an attempt by the defense to declare a mistrial in this particular case and the 4 page protest from the defense team basically hones in on 3 important issues one it criticizes the judge for failing to change the venue of the trial saying that it lead to a tainted jury pool secondly it complains about the publisher to around the case and thirdly in the main points that the defense makes the judge fail to sequester the jury for the entirety of the trial making them open to public comment or public issues on the better that they were adjudicating on. india's opposition is calling on prime minister narendra modi to impose a national roll down that's after the official count of corona virus infections insists out of the pandemics of past 20000000 with more than 220000 deaths israeli

forces of attacks demonstrators in occupied east jerusalem and stopped other protesters from entering the area is anger over a court ruling forcing several palestinian families to leave the shifts around neighborhood and israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has mandate to form a government has expired putting his political future in question has been meeting opposition leaders in an attempt to secure a not full so for me correlation syrian state media say the country's a defenses have intercepted an israeli attack on several northwestern areas including the coastal city of latakia israel has recently hit targets inside syria way iranian backed fighters are based and voters in madrid have returned the right wing government to power in regional elections conservative party leader is a bit yes a you so resisted pressure from the national government to impose lockdowns those are the headlines next on al-jazeera the string. to want to i'll just.

tell me what the government you represent is now illegitimate and we listen we do not sell the fence material any country the conflict in yemen we meet with the global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on syria. i am very ok i don't need to tell you how many countries around the world are struggling with the coronavirus today of the strain we focus on the philippines have a look here on my laptop covered 90 mortality rate by country in south east asia this is the philippines look at where that ball goes that line of the qualifiers making the philippines the 2nd highest in terms of covert 19 infections and casualties in south east asia that is the core of this is what the search looks like in reality we are talking about the philippines and the situation there

earlier we spoke to the all gay ngo pret from the international crisis group and this is what he told us so it's not a stranger to the community in major hazards but kuhlmann teams different beast there is not only in terror the fragile and system of the can. see this will shoot . the region. 100 years in the history. the presumed elections coming next year and the people's fools who cast of the forms. remain strong and whole. and new and uncertain. that was one analyst's perspective but what is your last you can join our conversation by jumping into the comment section and asking i guess your questions so let's talk to the guests let's

say hello to polling call the caller hello dr nice to see you hello ambassador laying as well welcome to the stream got to convert introduce yourself to international audience tell everybody who you are and what you do good in every wine thank you thank you for that you duction. believe in god you are in the immediate past president of the b.b. in college and. in am an active same craigie going in judaeus an emergency physician in many hospitals here in the mentor and to other hospitals and. thanks for joining us hello ambassador welcome please introduce yourself to our global audience yes or similar mando some that would have been better to watch you could be welcome and i am a nice to have you tell everybody who you are what you do very important for today's conversation. and thank you very.

much of amnesty international and i am also a filipino lawyer welcome. dr i am looking at some pictures that you sent us from iran you were working earlier on today and i'm just looking at these 2 pictures what are we seeing here. how do we know this is a church. ok so it is already been really the clear that there's a surge there releases the spikes in the numbers we have we're seeing increased transfer in the past 3 and one to even in what you're seeing here are defense. for patients that are we in the in in sago or mother or just department so this is forgive the expansion of the capacity of our hospital patients and their waiting in the rain to begin beds in say the hospital you are very kind because you have office the protecting the the identity of many of these people who are really

suffering this doesn't even look like a hospital this is like a temporary set up there are now field hospitals temporary hospitals in minot because dr oh ok so since you've been seeing surges and increasing trans obviously we can't beat them all in so we just have to meet whatever it is that we have so we have to bent's increase our capacity by expanding space. adding more beds even if this will be only in makeshift beds so even in wheelchairs so that they be able to lead them to the speeches outside our harmonix regency departments i mean i'm really curious because we've all been in this global pandemic for over a year now but when when we use the phrase all the time so that means something to face different eminent a you seeing something ticking in times your family your friends over relatives

back. well as i said earlier i believe the more lawyer i've been working as a national lawyer for years but i am still very much looking for a lawyer and i have my family and my friends also. and for the last 2 weeks. 6 of my have passed away. because of. and this is you really there that's not even. family members of friends so this is this is serious a concern for me because again this is a bad people who cannot or help their facilities but it's really now just about her own people cannot access their facility because there is not enough to go on. a mass i want to bring you into the conversation but 1st i would like to play a little clip this is raise a cat she's

a hospital director and we just got this comment from a little bit earlier so we can all do some what is going on in hospitals particularly in manila have a listen have a look at past every hospital there and she are especially the government hospitals . they are now are struggling we know dad an increase in the number of cases just as we know that increase in the number of health workers being battered beav. specially in the past. since march. a mistake who is running the code with 19. i would say the fight for covert 19 in the philippines who is in charge of that who is doing that practically down on the ground. well the task forces should be headed by the secretary this is the one in charge and he's the one that i've been in touch with on a regular basis basically to help in procuring of the vaccines coming from the

united states i totally understand the situation with the libyans i know that it's really very critical and our health care system as it is really and that's the main critical stage right now that to me i can really see that all do see the only solution or the light at the end of the tunnel but we've always been hearing of the vaccines and this is exactly what we're trying to do as far as we're concerned here in washington d.c. talking to the pharmaceutical companies we've been in touch with them for more than a year now well all bush the year actually and it's unfortunate that the supplies for or the backseats especially coming from here is been very very tight and it's only recently the president by them approved. vaccines to be made available for the world especially and specifically the ice or to be exported from the united states so this is really the work that they're doing here as far as the covert thing

response is concerned i would he has wants to speak to you. over and also dr so i'm going to put this comment to you this is from doc to what a firm as thank you for being part of the show dr fries does fry says my main concern is that for how long are we going to live like this is there any light at the end of the tunnel why isn't the w.h.o. responding appropriately let me start with you dr and then go to the ambassador for a response dr light at the end of the tunnel what are you seeing are you seeing any light. i have to agree with them bassett or that indeed the vaccines as a whole and the light at the end of the what they have to do something right now seems to have a problem right now we have. them urgency the arguments in. it may be a green make sure of the current situation of the events and that vaccine serves as hope for all of us now care workers in the general public that eat me less out

from the situation but currently the demand d.d. and crisis of the people he is that must what must be done right now so all of those congestion on the net increase in the feet so they're really asking for help and when and where to seek help for access for hospitals and then go ahead jump in very quickly. indeed i agree with ambassador and go. back seams are a very important but i think it's not it's only just one part of addressing this crisis it's what's happening in the fifty's now actually explosives the frailty of our healthcare system and how make that our health care system has been for many many years and our sense always is that it has never been the framework by because of the government and even with previous administrations it has never been. the

healthcare system has never been seen from one lens as a human right as a right to health so as you see facilities you see how their workers who are underpaid and who would rather go to seek a better life to get better so that seems as just one point but then evelyn i let let let me over also let let me let me bring this to to you because this is really important this is something that a conversation is a was happening on the chiefs i want to bounce it off a few so sleeping panda says i'm concerned about the lack of adequate action by the government how filipino nurses a flocking to other developed countries because i'm not getting adequately compensated in the philippines does that count as a human right. there can you please can you explain so. well you are but if you know some of them are actually many of them are my friends they're

watching the whole friends who are in the united. as nurses so i ask them to watch this show and many of them actually me or go through the united states are here in london because they don't get. adequate they don't get adequately paid for their services or their skills in the senate beans so in order to have a cohort of both in order to be able to they were in the assess if they had to go somewhere else and that was different that a lot of human rights rolled in who want it there's not only me an impact on the health care system in the philippines but it also goes to the human rights of the people who are not paid well so that they have to go to other countries in order to. i must say i have seen reports of the military and you talk about the tough force because you toss force in the philippines the military being accused of

over stepping back power of a stepping what they should be doing jewing a global pandemic how do you see those stories steve you feel that there's any. credibility to those stories in those complaints about the military. well i'm not quite sure about what are they doing but i don't know that the the government is at least initially when they put on that lock downs they needed to have obviously the persons in authority to be able to implement that and the military was passed through to be one of those on the front lines to be able to implement the law poems i think for a while it was successful but in the end obviously the economy is issue this is starting to show signs of becoming again critical a critical situation especially for the for the for those who work every day and they they. are that day wager so soon so to speak just to just

to. mention some of the things that they haven't said i.e. i agree that yes the health care situation that it seems quite critical but of course no one ever for sure a pandemic of this type that will ever happen during our time in this century and so the health care is now obvious to see suffering from that. i mean i remember my brother who was the health secretary chairing the climate of former president joseph estrada was one of those that pushed for universal care. is one of the cornerstones of that the administration and i think it's has been recently passed and at the same time he was also one of those that pushed for generic medicine to be sold in the for the people you know medicines the philippines or one of the most expensive ever and for a while the major pharmaceutical companies that we are now having to deal with right now especially coming from the united states have a very strong i would say they were they had that quite

a lot of power in the philippines that they could not get this pos true but again that was biased recent the or at least not too long ago for generic medicines to be available and to make it much cheaper for the majority of our people. it's not i want to play this clip and this is this is a tragic story just one of many tragic stories coming out of manila as the last few weeks this is from anglo pereira who lost one of his parents to cover it 19 he was searching for a hospital bed couldn't find one haven't listened to me and my family we have moved on or are trying to move on so we don't really entertain these thoughts anymore but you know maybe if we had a clear clear plan of action maybe we if we knew that hospitals were a bust. you know we could have just relied on ourselves more evidence and all

that time 5 hours you know looking for a hospital to no avail really. daughter the way that i say is i if i if we don't eat out hostiles web os to say what was the point of spending 5 hours ferrying at parent around manila what's the situation like that how do how do we address that because vaccines are not the enemy to the solution for them. if they may just quickly. just say something since the universal health care was mentioned they sure didn't invest in during that indeed universal health care is very much eating meat a great now but i believe that there can be being literally universal health care without emergency care so all of these things just. very exposed are highlighted so i agree that we were really not prepared nobody was prepared for corby it just exposed so maybe not in lizzie's the health care system we've never seen but there's that much 3 decades so. in recent years an integral part of universal

health care and what was just many vetted by one of those one of the. the one who lost a parent is that in an ideal state the it should not be depletion of patients and it is it should be easy for hospitals to beat them so the system should have looked for at least 3 of them or do we need to do is just ala numbering in the 80 as it being and as easy as just a 3 digit number to get advice or it will create the it's not here in the loop it's not we don't have a system yet we're getting there but there's just so many numbers to the members and they're left and they're all in the. in their own way looking to the snes of the metro and even in their own private cars because we don't have a emergency medical service as competent. emergency medical services that so there's a long long way to walk for the philippines so even before that either who say the

elite ship there should be already be a blend where the nearest office and facility or any of the look in that. so. there isn't really hardly. everything going to have to. build on her police car so yes. implementation of universal health care and also in the generic medicines act well said it was a step or steps forward. including the health care system in the beams but those are not enough. car that emergency care is a component. of universal health care also in the philippines right now including people i know including family members of mine. and this would still mean see the your financial hardship so this cannot be denied this we cannot

this is something that i'm still seeing and there are no. i remember what you said right at the beginning of our conversation which is the solution is going to be vaccines and it's not going to be a meeting because i'm not sure where the bed to going to going to come from a doctor comes to cause showed us just from a shift early on today how people were just so sleepy back together in makeshift temporary hospitals so i'm just looking at i want to share with our audience a picture of president deter today getting a vaccine which i believe was over a week ago i am wondering it was yesterday excuse me it was even sooner and i thought even more recent than i feel i'm wondering i'm bastow what impact does that have seen the president getting a vaccine what's that value. well i suppose most leaders all over the world that's one of the things that they do is to show that

vaccines has been saved and i would like to assure them that that is what the president of the director was trying to show you know here in the united states we all know the success of their vaccine rolled out obviously because of the resources that they have we are now seeing the numbers are going to go down dramatically and i understand from many states are good beginning to open their economy because of the vaccine so i'm one of those that really truly believes that this is the only way out of this now it's very unfortunate that many countries all over the world including the philippines have made little access to these supplies because all of the sea countries the rich countries are the ones that are getting it and you mentioned something about the w.h.o. we've been working with them through the kovacs facility that they set up and even then we still can't get him out of the supplies and to be reaping the that it's coming in in trickles likely instance of plays or that we have been working on for more than 7 months now even before they were given the you 8 it's only now

that we were able to finish off the and them that the agreement that they required us to do so all of this we're all under the gun and do you think i'm right i know what let me just say you have a lot to think that you think the problem is because the philippines has a reputation for corruption and lack of transparency so do you think that is part of the problem about now when you are in a crisis where he do need international help it might be a little bit on the slow side because of that reputation do you think those 2 things are connected. not not well i'm not trying to i don't think that that's the case because in our case for instance the w.h.o. i'm sorry the world bank and the a.b.b. are those that are ready to in fact they have a standby of credit for not only for the philippines were poor many countries in asia including indonesia and they were keeps and they are the ones that directly pay the pharmaceutical companies by they have representatives here in washington

d.c. with a couple of meetings with them they said we have the money for you but there are no vaccine supplies so it's really that that is really the problem and we're not the only ones that are suffering so and that's part of it we have the band on to patients coming from other countries like china and also from. from what i understand of israel is coming up and they're ready to help us another cause smaller country said have offered to help the philippines. i don't put one more thought into our conversation this won't cause a christine something that has a health and science reporter who is looking at now when if we go from making the film the pains how do you make sure fewer people die from kovac 19 this is what you told us so in the philippines using 1000000 people he made he says the medical society he's an expert say in their opinion aren't demanded basic epidemic response well he's saying expanded best thing answer isolation about meat imitation are the

gaps in health infrastructure another challenge is the whole government units are not use the niner slums some of the national bomb making the guy game there are bright spots and some city smart meager existence is as simple as having a scene on the chasing after an essential last year i'm dashed more often which we still and how either to the ranking of science at school because fines or weeks for everyone to get not see me but with inattention fall out and the limited maxims of night that will likely the wire. it's a thought to come back i'm also seeing questions on nature where people are asking about vaccine has to say in the philippines so vaccinations are the onset to how do you reduce the number of deaths and adults vaccine has a sensing what do you to as the medical profession to help people like. me make them understand that she'll be the vaccine is one way out of. unfortunately

. the work scenes are not they're not coming in fast enough to for all of these spot for most of our population to be vaccinated so with regards the vaccine has it in c. i think the president having in that city that leak is a big. it's a it's a good feature of you know that the public may trust the backseat and that. most of the. health care workers are. are already back to me and they can speak for themselves as well and trust for that exceeds but indeed it is redy part of the problem. that's in the shine that exene has it is that we need to understand that we need to meet the public understand. i'm just looking here on my laptop to see how vaccinations are doing in southeast asia coverage 19 vaccination race in asia at the top singapore this is this is doses

administered per $100.00 of the population in selected asian countries singapore there is right at the top china a little bit behind them and we have to go all the way down here to the philippines and then thailand is even lower so this is going to be an ongoing problem it's an ongoing challenge for people in the philippines dealing with the search right now dot to conver car thank you so much ambassador appreciate your family and so much to talk about really thank you very much for helping us shine a light on the surge of coverage 19 cases that the casualties there and really what you need which are vaccinations a lot of them thank you so much for joining us on the stream and thank you you too for being part of our conversation always appreciate it i will see you next time take care.

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