Philippines healthcare plan stirs concerns

Critics say plan to privatise more than 100 hospitals will not work in country with widespread poverty.

Health groups in the Philippines are opposing a government plan to privatise more than 100 hospitals.

They say the scheme will not work in a country where more than 70 percent of the population lives below the poverty line.

Al Jazeera’s Jamela Alindogan reports from Manila.

Source: Al Jazeera

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