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                    [Title] => EDITORIAL - Universal coverage
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The government wants the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. to provide universal coverage.

[DatePublished] => 2012-07-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 342011 [Title] => At Boys Town, regrets over lost glory [Summary] =>
(Conclusion)
One house parent at Boys Town recounts how he had to wait for two days before he could bring a sick young boy to the hospital because the staff had to scrounge for money first. Even then, he had to walk the ailing child to the nearest corner where they waited for a jeep, just so they could save as much of the P1,000 they had for expenses they might incur at the hospital. [DatePublished] => 2006-06-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1653036 [AuthorName] => Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 341837 [Title] => At Boys Town, regrets over lost glory [Summary] =>
(Third of a series)
Ernesto Beren, 61, remembers the Manila Boys Town of old with fondness. He recalls that the 23-hectare institution had a rustic landscape, surrounded as it was by trees, and huge grounds that gave him and his fellow young wards plenty of room to play.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1653036 [AuthorName] => Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 341548 [Title] => Boys Town wards cry sexual, physical abuse [Summary] =>
(First of a series)
Seventeen-year-old Paul was already resigned to sleep at the guardhouse of Manila Boys Town in Parang, Marikina as part of his punishment for a minor mischief he says he did not commit. But then the officer-in-charge of the facility changed his mind; Paul was to stay at the OIC’s living quarters while the boy was still "under observation."
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1653036 [AuthorName] => Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 235051 [Title] => ‘Anomalies’ uncovered at Pampanga drug rehab center [Summary] => MAGALANG, Pampanga — Stories of sexual abuse, torture, hard labor, extortion and other alleged irregularities have been uncovered by police and top officials of the Sagip Bie Foundation Inc. (SBFI) at the six-hectare Central Luzon Drug Rehabilitation Center in Barangay Sto. Niño here.

This, after at least 50 relatives of the center’s wards sought the help of Senior Superintendent Efren Alamares, SBFI director, the other night.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804849 [AuthorName] => Ding Cervantes [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 135323 [Title] => Giving hope to Chosen Children [Summary] => Kimberly Parades turns seven years old on Nov. 28. A ward at Chosen Children Village in Silang, Cavite, she has grown into fine girl, despite her needs as a microcephalic child. She now walks and runs at the Village playground without difficulty. While her language development might be slightly delayed, she has no difficulty in expressing herself.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1420681 [AuthorName] => Joseph Cortes [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) ) )
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