Worse than the hypocrisy of the tobacco industry (donating mobile clinics while causing deaths and diseases) is the lack of integrity of the Secretary of Health attending this event and posing happily for a group photo, trading public health principles and ethics for political convenience, violating CSC-DOH JMC 2010-01. I consider Sec. Ted Herbosa a colleague and mentor, but I do not mince my words when I say he has lost all credibility.
And he wants to represent the Philippines as the president of the next World Health Assembly? Under this Marcos government, the Philippines does NOT deserve to lead the World Health Assembly.
This 3rd Sunday of Lent, let us pray for credible, ethical leadership.
(photo and caption published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, 23 Mar 2025)
