Saying no one agency or individual can claim expertise to pandemic never before experienced, a group of medical practitioners and other professionals has asked the government to allow broad-based public discourses on Covid19 vaccination.
On its founding anniversary on August 12, the Concerned Doctors and Citizens of the Philippines (CDC Ph) also vowed to provide broad data-based information as the most effective tool in humanity’s fight against Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid19)
The group also named its top level of leadership professionals from the fields of medicine, business, media and arts and culture.
The CDC Ph in a statement said it has asked the government to allow its doctor-members to present how they were able to treat and save a lot of patients.
“We appeal to President Rodrigo Roa Duterte to allow “second opinion” from other doctors who are successful in treating thousands of patients. May they be allowed to present how they were able to treat and save a significant number of patients,” the statement added.
Named as new president of the CDC Ph, Dr. Homer Lim, M.D. said the most effective weapon against the COVID-19 virus is accurate scientific information.
Dr. Lim, who earned his medical degree from the University of Santo Tomas (UST), has been in medical practice for 18 years, specializing in regenerative medicine, geriatrics, and fighting chronic degenerative diseases such as cancer, diabetes, Parkinson’s, and autoimmune disorders.
He is also currently serving as the Vice-President of the International Society for Integrated Anti-aging Medicine, and President of the Philippine Society for Orthomolecular Medicine, which promotes integrative medicine in South East Asia.
CDC-Ph is a volunteer group of concerned doctors and citizens of the Philippines who aim to help our government safely lift the lockdown so that more lives are saved and more livelihoods are restored, the group’s press statement said.
The group said the public should be allowed to question the pandemic treatment protocols such as CT (cycle threshold) settings of our RT-PCR machine, yielding high false positives.
CDC-PH also asked the government to allow other medical professionals “to question DOH data reporting focused on cases and not number of hospitalized which determines whether our healthcare is overwhelmed or not. Allow us to have a choice regarding vaccination.”
As a group of professional volunteers, CDC-Ph said all that it wanted is for the country’s leaders to include a cheap effective alternative to treating COVID-19 and be implemented down to the barangay level, available to all Filipinos.
The group shares the website www.cdcph.org for more information about its advocacy to help Filipino people win the battle against the Covid19 pandemic.
Lim added the CDC Ph “has been and will always be at the forefront in disseminating data-based solutions that will save the lives and livelihoods of Filipinos.”
The other officers serving fresh terms for CDC Ph are: TV personality Mari Kaimo as vice-president; and actress Lovely Rivero as corporate secretary.
Rivero is a veteran actress, part-time TV host, an entrepreneur and current chair of the Covid Task Force of the Rotary Club of Makati in Dasmariñas Village.
The group said it has been doing its part of continuing research on more efficient and effective ways of addressing the pandemic, adding: “No one agency or individual can claim expertise to a pandemic we have not all experienced before.”
CDC Ph reiterated a need to generate a public discourse about the protocols imposed on the citizens “because this concerns our body, our health and our rights.”