‘Real stakeholders’ oppose planned evacuation of mental hospital, sale of Welfareville
We only learned about the fast-tracked evacuation and bidding plans
after we got hold of a copy of the ‘not-for-circulation’ documents on
the planned sale of Welfareville,” Romy Valenzuela, NACEMHEA –AHW
President
By MARYA SALAMAT
Bulatlat.com
MANILA – Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman already has her hands
full since she is heading the lead agency that is implementing the
Aquino government’s flagship conditional cash transfer (CCT) program.
Yet she still managed to make time for meeting with “stakeholders” last
June 29 to plan the evacuation of the National Center for Mental Health
(NCMH) and Correctional Institute for Women (CIW). The land where the
two institution sit on is targeted for public bidding on July 2012.
Soliman also heads the Welfareville Development Project.
But in the said meeting June 29, Soliman excluded the director of
NCMH, the representatives of the health workers and residents of
Welfareville. It is they as well as their thousands of patients who
would be most affected by the sale, the union said.
Mental hospital workers in this week’s protest in front of the DOH.(Photo courtesy of AHW / bulatlat.com)
Both the NCMH and the CIW should have been relocated and transferred before the sale of the 110-hectare land property in Mandaluyong City targeted by July 2012, according to the documents on the planned sale of Welfareville.....MORE
Source: Bulatlat.com
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/08/24/real-stakeholders%E2%80%99-oppose-planned-evacuation-of-mental-hospital-sale-of-welfareville/
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