Basic health service delivery remains a major concern in the Philippines that needs to be addressed adequately.

The chronic lack of doctors, nurses, and competent health workers has been aggravated by decades of overseas migration of Filipino medical practitioners who leave the country in search of higher-paying jobs abroad. Likewise, the lack of basic medicine and provisions for primary medical procedures has made difficult the timely intervention for arresting communicable diseases and even common ailments. These realities have taken their heaviest toll on the state of health of Filipinos in remote provinces and similarly situated poor municipalities and cities that make up the nation’s 42,000 barangays.