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By Prince Golez, Manila Reporter
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Saturday, March 4, 2017
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The colleagues Akeanon Dr. Dreyfuss Perlas, a graduate of West Visayas State University in Iloilo City, shared this photo on their respective Facebook walls to call for justice for the slain former “Doctors to the Barrios” volunteer. PHOTO FROM LANAO DEL NORTE MEDICAL SOCIETY/FACEBOOK
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MANILA – The Philippine National Police (PNP) has been urged to “find the killers” of Akeanon Dr. Dreyfuss Perlas, who was shot dead in Lanao del Norte on Wednesday night.
Thirty-one-year-old Perlas, a former volunteer for the government’s “Doctors to the Barrios” program, was riding a motorbike along the Barangay Maranding Annex when the incident happened.
“As a government scholar himself, [PNP chief Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa] should find it not hard to empathize with the familiar story of a Iskolar ng Bayan foregoing private practice for the happy but hardship post of serving the people,” said Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto on Friday.
“As one who had spent most of his career in the hinterlands, Bato should be the first to know that rural deployment, while challenging, should not be paid with one’s life.”
As doctors pledge to “do no harm” to their patients, the government, Recto said, should also ensure the same protection applies to them.
“We therefore owe, it not only to Dr. Perlas, but to his colleagues who form the rural health corps, the thousands of underpaid, overworked government doctors, nurses, midwives who are in the frontline of the war against diseases, that justice be served,” the Senate leader said.
He urged the law enforcement to bring those involved with Perlas’ death to justice.
“When a doctor is killed, the whole world gets sick. The only way to cure this sickness is to bring the perpetrators to justice,” he ended.
Perlas earned his degree in Medicine at the West Visayas State University in Iloilo City./PN
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