Don’t piss me off! Locsin says 200k test kits piling up at DOH, even Chinese doctors blocked from coming to PH to help

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Locsin is losing his patience over the bureaucratic wall at the Department of Health which has caused undue delays to foreign aid meant to help Filipinos fight the pandemic.

Locsin claimed that between 100,000 and 200,000 test kits have piled up at customs because of the DOH’s refusal to sign the release order.

“They (frontline doctors, nurses and medical staff) are denied the 100,000 possibly by now 200,000 test kits already donated; they are in fields of fire tending the wounded—waiting to die,” said Locsin on Twitter.

Locsin said even the doctors sent by China Ambassador Huang Xilian to the Philippines has been blocked by the DOH.

“I ASKED AMB. HUANG to send us Chinese doctors. Interpreters are no problem: Chinese General Hospital and the Metropolitan Hospital—where Yuchengcos had equity, my daughter was born there—will readily supply them. BUT DOH is blocking their arrival. DON’T PISS ME OFF. LET THEM IN,” said Locsin.

“We just need to overcome bureaucratic resistance which in normal times makes sense or there will be no order. But now they need to let go,” he added.

And they are unarmed; ran through their body armor—personal protective equipment; no field telescopes and other means of recon because they are denied the 100,000 possibly by now 200,000 test kits already donated; they are in fields of fire tending the wounded—waiting to die. https://t.co/r3cYSyKuoM — Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) March 28, 2020

I ASKED AMB. HUANG to send us Chinese doctors. Interpreters are no problem: Chinese General Hospital and the Metropolitan Hospital—where Yuchengcos had equity, my daughter was born there—will readily supply them. BUT DOH is blocking their arrival. DON'T PISS ME OFF. LET THEM IN. — Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) March 28, 2020

Nobody is scared; we just need to overcome bureaucratic resistance which in normal times makes sense or there will be no order. But now they need to let go. https://t.co/nPfPClSYhg — Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) March 28, 2020

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