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7 summit in the u.k. is self isolating after 2 members tested positive for corona virus the group of 7 wealthy democracies discussing vaccines as they face growing pressure to share stockpiles if barca has more now from london we don't know exactly when they are believed to contract coronavirus or indeed what kind of contact they may have had with other delegates from other countries over the last couple of days but the house forced the entire indian team including foreign minister josh to sit it out and carry on taking part remotely from their hotel rooms they already hears that india was here to seek more support from the g 7 countries when it comes to dealing with the coronavirus situation that is deepening and worsening in the country. the situation in india continues to get worse it's accounted for a quarter of all covert 900 deaths globally last week and nearly half of new infections the government has rejected the opposition calls for a national looker. government surveillance of politicians says it set up

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sir it should be about rising food prices or is this entirely down to the pandemic we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in a prime minister designate of a 200 very broad tosca fix your war torn economy counting the cost on al-jazeera. i am very ok i don't need to tell you how many countries around the world are struggling with the coronavirus today on the street 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 is that line of the craft 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 going to be talking about the philippines and the situation there earlier we

spoke to georg a ngo break from the international crisis group and this is what he told us so it's not a stranger to disasters the community in major hazards kuhlmann teams different beast there is not only in terror the 1st general systematic and the comedy will sit as well should the ritz the. 100 exerting in the street prospects for economic recovery for the presidential elections coming up next year and the people's fools who cast of the government's performance in some communities remains. a whole long list and new years and uncertain future. 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

question is so let's talk to the guests let's say hello to pulling call the call hello delta nice to see you hello ambassador emeline 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 dutch and also i am dr believe in god you are in the immediate past president of the college of emergency. in am an active same craigie going and eat as an emergency physician in many hospitals here in the metro and to other hospitals and. thanks for joining us hello ambassador welcome please introduce yourself to our global audience it's more similar mando some that would have been better to watch you could be welcome and i am a nice to have you tell us what you think you are what you do very important for today's conversation. and thank you very.

much of amnesty international and i'm 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 search that their release is the spikes in the numbers you're seeing increased transfer in the past 3 and one even in what you're seeing here are defense. for patients that are we in the in sago or mother are just departments it is for 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 offices of 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 setup 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 be them all so we just have to meet do we 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 the be able to identity 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 because deface different eminent a you seeing something ticking in times your family your friends. back.

well as i said earlier it would be more lawyer 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 few 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 concern for me because again this is a bad people who cannot or help their facilities but it's really now it's about her own people cannot access their facility because there is not enough to go around. a mess i want to bring you into the conversation but 1st i would like to play a little clip this is raise at the cat she's

a hospital director and we just got this comment from a little bit earlier so we can understand what is going on in hospitals particularly in minnesota 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 have workers being battered not end up last specially in the past. since march. to is running the covert 19. i would say. 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 secretary this is who want to charge and he's the one that i've been in touch with on a regular basis basically to help and procuring of the vaccines coming from the

united states i totally understand the situation with that have been so i know that it's really very critical and our health care system as it is is really and that's the main critical stage right now and 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 that 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 karma suitable 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 for the backseats especially coming from here is been very very tight and it's only recently that president biden approved. vaccines to be made available for the world especially and specifically the pfizer 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. oh no says dr so i'm going to put this new chief comment to you this is from not to want to for us thank you for being part of the show doc for this does for us as 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 that 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. they have to agree with them bassett or indeed the vaccines as a whole and the light at the end of the tunnel but we have to do something right now since we have a problem right now we have. their marriage incident reitman's in. it may be a green make sure of the current situation of the events and that vaccine serves as a hope for all of us in the care workers in the general public that. eat me less

hours from the situation but currently the demand d. and price of the people he is that must a what must be done right now so all of those congestion on the. p.c.c. lives so they are really asking for help and when and where to seek help for access for the hospitals and go ahead jump in very quickly. indeed they agree with their own or go. back seems 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 particular action 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 paid that are so vaccines as just one point but then evelyn i let let let me over also let let me let me bring this to cheat because this is really important this is something that a conversation is a was happening on the chiefs i want to bounce it off if he 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 putting you know some of them are actually many of them are my friends they're

watching for 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 minute beans so in order to have a cohort of both in order to be able to pay for an assessment these and that they have to go somewhere else and that is different that's 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 you talk about the times force a couple times force in the philippines the military being accused of overstepping

dad 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 and 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 in the front lines to be able to implement the laptops 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 small so to speak just to just

to. mention some of the things that they haven't said i agree that yes the health care situation that have been quite critical but of course no one ever for sure and then make up this play that will never 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 that ministration 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 philippines you know medicine to 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 to their way they had that quite

a lot of power in the philippines that they could not get this through 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. but i want to play this clip and this is this is a tragic story just one of many tragic stories coming out of manila of the last few weeks this is from anglo pereira who lost one if he's parents to cover it 19 he was searching for a hospital bed couldn't find one haven't they sent 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. delta 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 apair an hour around manila what's the situation like that 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 very sure of the best and 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 business that the health care system we've never seen but this that much 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 the barrett is that in an ideal state the it should not be the beach and the 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 can 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 all in the. in their own way looking through the sneeze of the metro and even in their own private cars because we don't have emergency medical services as competent. emergency medical services that so there's a long long way to go for the philippines so even before that either who say the

elite ship there should be already be a plan 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. our police car so yes. implementation of universal health care and also the generic medicines act. was a step or steps forward. including the health care system in the beams but those are not enough and. are 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 now. i remember what you said right at the beginning of my 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 the cause showed us just from his shift early on today how people just sleep 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 sure that

vaccines are supposed to be safe and i would like to assure them that that is what the president was trying to show you know here in the united states we all know the success of their vaccine rollout 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. 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 read to me 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 your 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 get you to 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 for poor many countries in asia including indonesia and they would keep and they're the ones that directly pay the pharmaceutical companies are 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 and that's what it will be up to then 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 could it be. i don't put one more thought into our conversation this holmes cousin christine something that is a health and science reporter who is looking at now when we go from here in the philippines how do you make sure fewer people die from covered 19 this is what you told us so in the philippines using 1000000 people he may he says the medical society he's an expert say in there aren't demanded basic epidemic response well she's saying expanded testing answer isolation about meet imitation are the gaps in

health infrastructure another challenge is the whole government units are not use online in response some of the national model makes the guiding 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 down. which we still on how either to banking or science at school because sponsors are weak for everyone to get not skinny but with inefficient fall out and the limited maxims of night that will likely be. it's a thought to count because i'm also seeing questions on a chief weapons were 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 either vaccine is one way out. 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 has been in that city that leak is a big. it's a it's a good nature of you know that the public may trust the vaccine 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 really 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 docked 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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