Marcos leads launch of first Lung Transplant Program

The Manila Times

Marcos leads launch of first Lung Transplant Program  President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. leads the launch of the Lung Center of the Philippines' and National Kidney and Transplant Institute's Lung Transplant Program in Quezon City on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024.   Video by Catherine S. Valente  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes  #tmtnews  #pbbm  #medication

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00:00 [MUSIC]

00:02 Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the Republic of the Philippines,

00:07 His Excellency, Bernard R. Marcus, Jr.

00:11 [APPLAUSE]

00:15 [MUSIC]

00:25 [MUSIC]

00:37 You will now be seated.

00:39 We celebrate the collaboration of two hospitals,

00:42 which more than neighbors, are partners in battling diseases that inflict pain on our people

00:48 and on their populace as well.

00:50 They also share one significant trait, and that is courage,

00:55 in full display when COVID-19 was on a rampage.

01:00 The trenches where frontliners in white coats made their defiant stand

01:05 run through these two hospitals.

01:08 You saved many, many, many lives.

01:13 If there is one postcard of grit which captured your stubborn resistance,

01:18 it was that of the lung center personnel fashioning PPEs out of garbage bags.

01:24 In the very beginning, when we could not get enough of these PPEs,

01:28 when the influx of patients overran all our supplies,

01:32 as we were unprepared for such a plague that would befall our country.

01:39 And when I saw that picture, captioned with a quote,

01:42 "Lapan lang, ito yata ang fighting slogan nyo. Lapan lang."

01:47 [applause]

01:51 I found myself catching my breath.

01:53 What breath I could catch because I was suffering from COVID myself

01:57 and was still trying to recover.

02:01 It was unfortunate because it was the first time in my life that I go to the doctor

02:06 and I ask them what's happening to me, and the doctors would tell me,

02:10 "We're not quite sure."

02:12 And the next question, of course, is how do I get better?

02:16 And the answer also is, "Well, we'll try everything, but we're not quite sure yet."

02:21 Of course, we have grown. We have improved. I'm very pleased with that.

02:25 And that is something--that is why the lung center,

02:31 having been a long-time asthma and allergy sufferer,

02:36 has been something that I can understand and sympathize with very, very closely.

02:43 [silence]

02:49 [typing]

02:50 [ding]

02:51 [silence]

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