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Philippine Lawmaker Proposes One-Year Quarantine For Medical Professionals!
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – A lawmaker has proposed a measure mandating that new Filipino doctors and nurses be quarantined in the country for a year before they could seek jobs abroad.
Malasakit and Bayahanihan party-list Rep. Anthony Rolando Golez Jr. said House Bill No. 6232, also known as Mandatory Medical Service Bill, aims to address the shortage of healthcare workers in the Philippines.
Instead of creating incentives for the medical professionals, Golez wants to punish them for years of expensive education and training, and for seeking a better future for themselves and their families.
Is this a case of “if you can’t stop them, detain them?”
Is this also yet another argument for the abolition of the party-list system in Philippine Congress?
PRC, DICT Push For Vlogger Licensure Exam!
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – As Nobel lauriat Maria Ressa likes to say, “Without facts, you can’t have truth.” Without truth, you are a liar.
With this in mind, the Philippines’ Professional Regulation Commission and the Department of Information and Communications Technology have jointly proposed that all meandering, fly-by-night vloggers must undergo licensure exams in order to practice the “profession.”
Unlike all other major professions, journalists and vloggers don’t need to be licensed in order to do what they do (or not do).
The proposal came after the PRC and DICT noticed the proliferation of vloggers like Raissa Robles, Maharlika, Jover Laurio and many others who use social media to manufacture and spread lies. Robles, for one, a self-proclaimed investigative journalist and failed book author, uses Twitter to scout for interviewees for her “stories” and crowdsourcing to gather juicy gossip. Maharlika relies on unreliable “sources” to sugar-coat her fictitious posts.
PRC and DICT said they will send their proposal to Senator Robin Padilla so that the appropriate bill on the professionalization of vlogging can be filed.
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