MANILA – A “doctor to the barrio” was killed in Cotabato City on Tuesday, Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial said.

Ubial said Dr. Shahid Jaja Sinolinding was shot dead by a man who posed as a patient.

“We condemn in strongest terms the murder of Dr. Sinolinding, the second doctor to the barrio to be murdered in two months,” Ubial said in a statement.

Last March, doctor to the barrio Dreyfus Perlas was shot dead in Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte.

An unidentified assailant shot Perlas in the back. He was in Lanao del Norte under the government's Doctors to the Barrios program since 2012.