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WE ARE COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSES & ADVOCATES OF PEOPLES' HEALTH

In 1973, three nuns, one of them a nurse, started what would later be known as "Community based health programs" (CBHP) in the Philippines. In 1978, Primary Health Care (PHC) was embodied in the Alma Ata Declaration signed by 134 nation states toward the goal, "Health for All" by year 2000.

More than 30 years have passed, where is "Health for All?"

This question made several of us nurses to come together in early 2008. We realized that the vision of Alma Ata of "Health for all by year 2000" remained largely just that: a vision

We come together with our individual experiences in working for and with the marginalized sectors and poor communities for whose who sake we set up this organization.

Through the setting up of our organization that gathers community health nurses and advocates of people's health who continuously promote and uphold the principle of "health as a basic right" . we may be ableto give tribute to those who chose to be among the least-served communities. We hope to add our voices to those who preach and advocate the people's united strength as the means to achieving health for the people. We hope to strengthen and affirm our commitment of serving the Filipino people.
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PNP wants Morong workers detained in Rizal jail

The Philippine National police on Monday asked a Rizal court to order the transfer of 38 detained health workers to the Rizal Provincial Jail in Taytay town.

In his motion, PNP custodial center head Superintendent Cesar Magsino asked Rizal Regional Trial Court Branch 78 presiding judge Amorfina Cerrado-Cezar to place the suspected communist rebels under the custody of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology.

"The BJMP is mandated to maintain the custody and safekeeping of any prisoner, any gugitive from justice or person detained awaiting investigation or trial, and or transfer to the National Penitentiary and other institutions in accordance with law," he said.

The 38 are among the 43 workers arrested during a military and police raid on February 6 at a farmhouse in Morong, Rizal, on suspicions that they were communist rebels attending an explosive training. The workers, who have since denied the allegations, are detained at the Army's Camp Capinpin in Tanay town.

Five of the 43 workers have reportedly admitted membership to the New People's Army and were applying to state witnesses. They have been transfereed to unidentified locations.

Citing security measures, Magsino on Monday explained that the Rizal Provincial Jail is the more reasonable detention facility for the health workers becauseof its proximity to the Rizal regional trial court.

The PNP Custodial Center is about 30 kolometers away from the regional trial court, ehile the provincial jail is only seven kilometers away.

"Given the number of accussed, more or less 100 PNP personnel and 20 vehicles will be detailed and dispatched to secure the accussed everytime their appearance is required by the court, " said Magsino

"if the 38 accused will be detained at PNPCC in Camp Crame, it is of public knowledge that concerned groups will stage series of demonstrations and rallues within and around the vicinity of Camp Crame to propagate their causes, thereby, creating serious public disturbance," he added.

The Rizal court had earlier ruled the 38 workers be detained at the PNP Custodial Center in Camp Crame, Quezon City, but the National Police is still asking the court to reconsider its decision. - with Sophia Dedace/RSJ, aricle from GMANews.tv/4/26/2010

Morong 43

Morong 43
The illegally detained Health Workers

Relatives of the Health Workers

Relatives of the Health Workers
Photos from Bulatlat.com

Victims of illegal detention

Victims of illegal detention
Photos from Bulatlat.com

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