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During our last day for this semester’s CWTS, we watched a short documentary entitled “Ambulansyang de paa” which talks about the struggle being experienced by our fellow Filipinos in the remote areas and far from the range of help of the health services. In the documentary, people who are sick and needs emergency are being carried in a duyan-like structure of ambulance where there are two people carrying it. This called Ambulansyang de paa travels for hours just to reach the city proper where the health center is present to assess the patient who is sick. With the long distance from the community to the health center, this improvised ambulance travels in different weathers and structures of the road, which adds difficulty in carrying the patient towards the center.

This documentary shows many problems about the primary health care here in the Philippines. It reflects the lack of health care services and in remote areas, far from the urban areas. This made me realized that health care professionals should be sensitive and aware enough that these problems really happen and exist in this world. As a future professional like of them, this made me realized that we should really help our fellow Filipinos, give back services to them as iskolars ng bayan, and share them the things we have learned and studied for. I also realized the real importance and purpose of the return service agreement after watching the documentary. Most of our professionals nowadays directly go abroad to work there, forgetting our fellow Filipinos here in the Philippines who should be the one first experience their service. I hope that this documentary would also serve as an inspiration too to my fellow future nurses in determining what track they want to pursue after graduating.