 Maraming salamat po. Today marks our 49th episode and also commemorates our one-year anniversary for our Stop COVID-19 webinar series brought to you by the University of the Philippines. Today masayang masaya po kami na marami pa rin po ang patuloy na nagtumatangkilik at kasama po namin sa learning journey na ito patungkol po sa lahat ng mga bagay tungkol sa COVID-19. One year ago, the Stop COVID-19 webinar series was conceptualized in order to disseminate COVID-19 information quickly to all hospitals throughout the Philippines. During this time, there were only a few COVID-19 referral hospitals and the experience of the clinical management team patanarin po ang ating knowledge on treatment and perhaps prevention methods po for COVID-19 from credible sources. Kailangan po na ito po ay mas mas share at makaron po tayo ng venue kung kasan po mas mabilis at regular po na nasi share ang information na ito para po protect kahan din po ang ating entire health system. I'm Dr. Raymond Francis Sarmiento, Director of the National Telehealth Center, National Institutes of Health University of the Philippines Manila. It's always a pleasure to spend my Friday lunch date with all of you, especially with my partner in crime at our adjunct faculty at the UP Manila National Telehealth Center. Also, the special envoy of the President for Global Health Initiatives, Dr. Susie Tineda-Mercano. Dr. Susie. Hi Raymond and I'd like to greet everyone but nabadi ka po lahat kayong mga nanggining at pala ginagining. One year anniversary po natin ngayon. I just want to greet everyone who's watching from Davao, Sambuanga, Bulacan, Pangasinan, Pampanga, Negros, Occidental, and our Metro Manila Hospitals, Jose Reyes, Kirino, Rizal Medical Center, Lang Center of the Philippines, PGH. Welcome everyone. We can't name all of you but we just thank you for being with us. Dahil kung hindi po sa inyo, hindi po namin mapapatulit ang webinar ninto. Gayon pa man, alam ko po na last week I also said this, I know that you're feeling tired. I know that it's been a very busy week and we've been going through so much as a country and yet you're here. We are hopeful and ang kapik po natin ngayon ay kamusta po kayo. Kamusta po tayong lahat. Today we have many different special guests and just like to say that we have so many, we have speakers who are coming in and we've prepared some surprises for you for the anniversary. Para matuha tayong ng konte despite the fact na medyo mahirap yung ginagawa natin ngayon. Pero tayong kong ting kasayaan dahil, isang taon na po tayong magkakasama Raymond, I can't believe that we've been doing this for one whole year every Friday. So I just want to thank our audience for being there. Kung hindi po sa inyo wala po kami dito and we do our best to serve you, to bring you the best speakers, most credible ones and to make sure that you get the best information kasi yung po ang panlaban natin dito sa pandemna. Raymond, over to you. Thank you, Dr. Suzy. For those who are joining us for the very first time in this webinar, just to give you a brief overview kung paano po ang ating structure. So meron po tayong main presenter or discussion followed by a set of reactions from our esteemed panel of reactors. Then we move on to a Q&A session po where we tackle several pressing questions po. Durin the Q&A, we may be attacking at least one to two of our live audience para po ay sila po mismo ang magtanong sa ating panilis ng kanilang mga takatanungan live dito po sa webinar na ito. So sa lahat po ng ano-no-od, at po ng more than 1,000, almost 1,100 na po naka-saapong natin dito sa Zoom, sa nano-no-od po sa mga Facebook live streaming channels po natin dito po sa Stop COVID Dex, UP system pages at sa TV UP pages at lalala po sa YouTube channel ng ating TV UP. Maraming-maraming salamat po. Maraming-maraming arawin po itong mapanood ulit kung gusiyo po uliten ang episode na ito. Or kung meron po ka ibang parts na hindi po na panood, din don't ring po sa mga channels po yun in the playback po especially in the YouTube channel. All previous 48 webinars and including this one, all of them are archived on the YouTube channel of TV UP. So over to you Dr. Suzie. Okay, so it's our anniversary and when we started this webinar series, ginawap po natin dito para sa mga frontliner, para pusein na nahat. We wanted to bring you the latest information and we wanted to make sure there was real-time transmission of the research coming out of our major hospitals on how to manage and to stop COVID Dex. But through the year, we have lost a number of our frontliners and we would like to take this moment in our anniversary to honor them, to remember them. And our work, our perseverance shows that they have not died in vain. So TV UP, let's go to our memorial. So makikisap po tayo sa lahat ng mga pamilya, lahat ng mga kaibigan, lahat ng mga, merong mga kakilal ang mga wala po sa pandanya. We want to remember, we want to honor and we want to continue to protect our health workers. So I want to thank all of those who supported our call for photographs and merong po tayong living memorial na sa Facebook po, Filipino Medical Frontliners Heroes and Shiro's here in the Philippines and abroad. Salamat po sa lahat ng mga nagpadalan ng mga larawan, ng mga pangalan at nandun po lahat ng ala, ala ala po natin ay, siyempre mabigat, sorry, it's really very touching to see and there are many others who have perished with the pandemic but this is our inspiration to do better and to honor the memory of those who we have lost. So thank you and continue to send the names and the photographs on our Facebook page. Raymond, over to you, give me a break. Thank you Dr. Suzy. So ay po nang nasabi na po ni Dr. Suzy, maraming salamat po sa lahat lahat ng sakipisyo na ibinigay po ng ating frontliners, alam po natin na malaki po talaga na iambag po nila dito po sa, well essentially pag-address po ng pandanya po, so we want to be able to give them the due respect po and honor their memory we hope that all the heroes and she-ros of our COVID-19 memorial po will live on in our hearts and in our minds. So on a lighter note po, since this is our one-year anniversary, we would like to recognize din po at the same time ang ating mga masugid na tagapag-tangkilig at tagapanod po ng ating sub-COVID-19 webinar series. So all throughout this webinar po, limang beses po namin ipapakita, ang mga pangalan ng mga talagang very, very avid watchers, listeners po dito po sa ating webinar series. TVUP may we have the first set of names. Thank you so much. So yan po, naitita po ninyo ang inyong mga pangalan po, ang inyong pangalan po ay nandito po may display at naga-appear po sa inyong harapan, mga katanggap po kayo. Dito po ang parang commemorative limited edition na pen holder slash mug slash paperweight kung alam po. Ito po ay isang desenyo ng artist na si Lanell Abueba. So maraming salamat po. Yung pung names po na yan, we will be able to send those names po and also the pen holders sa inyong rin po na please let us know. Hopefully there are no one po na sa ibang bansa kasi po medyo mahirap po magpa-LBC sa ibang bansa. So meron po kayong mga taganan dito na pwede po padalahan ng inyong token of appreciation po namin. Please let us know. As mentioned, this is the first of five sets of names that we will be displaying all throughout the webinar. Reymond, Reymond, please, ano-no, that pen holder is very special. It's made by, sinubong paggumawa nito? Abueba, di ba? Lanell Abueba, yes po. Lanell Abueba is a very well-known artist and wuzo na, I mean, medyo mabigyati ang ating video but we also wanted to celebrate your participation. So this is our little token, our little gift. If your name comes out when we show this and you are not in the Philippines, just email us the address in the Philippines so we can send it. And it's our little way of saying thank you for being with us and we've been here for a year. Sama-sama pa rin tayo, hindi tayo, hindi tayo, hindi tayo sa supo dito. We will fight. Okay. Reymond, go ahead. At-tell next. Certificates. Before we do our certificate, may we have the graphic po with regards to the very hard working team, production team po behind the stop of this webinar series. Sa gaya po na nasabi ko po, this webinar series will not be possible without each and every one of you na talagang every week, over the weekend nakatrabaho pa rin to make this learning series very, very possible. So maraming salamat po. And salamat din po sa direction na binibigay na ating direct. Excellentive director, G.G. Alfonso of PBUP also sa ating guidance from Office of Vice President for Public Affairs, B.P. Neni Purnia and also A.B.P. Rika Abad. So maraming salamat po. Before we go into maybe another set of names, I'll just like to, for those who have been, although meskontin alam po siya nowadays, well actually in the past few weeks mo, yung mga nakatanong potong po sa searching certificates. So PBUP may we, there we go, okay. So those who have been able to spend at least half of their webinar duration po dito po sa zoom ay makakatanggap po ng certificate along with a copy of the presentations po na naibigay. Uliting ko lang po, lahat-lahat po ng mga dapat mabigyan at makatanggap ng kanilang certificates for the previous 48 webinars, yun po ay nadeseminate na, nade-distribute na po. At kung tingin po ninyo ay eligible po kayo na makatanggap, please let us know kasi po ay talagang masugin po naming redistribute at disseminate. Katering po dito po sa webinar number 49. Okay, so before Dr. Susie introduces our opening remarks as if we have two remarkable speakers for today, we'll just have another set of names po na who will be receiving. The pen holder, kumibarati pen holder, agaya po nang sabi ko, limited edition po siya, so sana po ay talagang makita po ninyo na may appreciation din po. Here are the 20 names, uliting ko lang po, dalawang pung pangalan ang nan dito po sa ngayon, so kung kayo po ay nan dito please let us know so we could send you the commemorative pen holder. Thank you, TVUP, over to you Dr. Susie for the introduction of our opening remarks speaker. Okay, thank you very much Raymond. I know everyone wants to get on with our webinar. And of course today our topic is, kamusta na po kayo? We're going to talk about how are you na parang kamusta na tayo after one whole year and to start our opening remarks, we're going to hear from the President of the University of the Philippines, Professor Danilo El Concepcion. Let's have the message of President Concepcion. Isang mapagpagpalay ang araw po, stay nyo lahat. The first anniversary of the beginning of this critical and informative webinar series is a milestone worthy of celebration. Even as our battle against the virus itself and the hardships our people face in this pandemic continue. I warmly congratulate the hardworking and dedicated teams and production staff behind this highly successful webinar series with a fitting title, stop COVID deaths. I also commend the efficiency and commitment of many individuals and units across the UP system. Rest assured, your contributions to our university's public health initiatives and the enrichment of national discourse about COVID-19 are vital sources of support for our medical fund liners, health care workers, and even the patients they care for. I also greet our distinguished speakers today, Department of Health Secretary Dr. Francisco Duque, our presenter for today's webinar, chair of the UPPGH Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Dr. Ansel Motronko, our reactors, UPPGH spokesperson and himself, the COVID survivor, Dr. Jonas Del Rosario, and multi-media producer, digital lead for inquirer mobility, and the parent also of a frontliner, Mr. R. D. Lopez, and of course, the UP Manila Chancellor, Dr. Menchit Padilia. As I said, we are commemorating the first anniversary of the stop COVID deaths webinar series today. However, the truth is that for us in UP, it has already been more than a year of confronting daily the many challenges of this COVID-19 pandemic. Many of us have faced the disease head-on and recovered. Some have suffered unspeakable loss of loved ones and many are back again in the field, bravely fighting for their patient survival and well-being. The alarming rise in the number of COVID cases along with the need to urgently strengthen the nation's health care system, especially within the NCR Plus bubble or the Greater Manila area informs us that so much more still needs to be done. We urgently need to address these immediate concerns to slow down the spread of the virus, stop COVID-related deaths, and administer the required health interventions for our patients and their care providers. After a year of battling the virus, we see almost one million Filipinos afflicted by COVID-19 with more infections and deaths projected by data analysts due to the new variants spreading. This increasing number of infections and deaths is especially highlighted by overburden health care personnel and lack of supplies, equipment, and facilities. By improving the working conditions in our hospitals, our government, and that includes all of us in UP, may be able to decide simply to earn the time and produce more favorable results as soon as possible, thus giving hope to the Filipino people. I salute our health care frontliners, scientists, teachers, volunteers, and alumni for responding immediately to the call of the times. They have stepped up even before the national government declared its first community quarantine early last year. Allow me to mention a few of our initiatives. The UP Philippine Genome Center and the UP Manila National Institutes of Health with funding from the Department of Science and Technology through the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development produced our own COVID-19 in PCR detection kit. We put up a dedicated webpage in the UP system website for the UP community to easily find all COVID-19 information and activities initiated by the university and its constituents. The UP COVID-19 pandemic response team was organized four days after the declaration of PCQ in March 2020 with 200 professors, researchers, alumni, and students joining from across the entire UP system. The response team produced public information materials and policy notes for national and local government units. The UP Philippine Genome Center in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao conducted a training of local health professionals on the use of the RTPCR test kit. They assisted in setting up laboratories and they conducted seminars in bioinformatics, among others. The UP Manila Philippine General Hospital, being the country's largest government training hospital and primarily attending to indigent patients, is also among the first to be designated as a COVID-19 referral hospital. Being the central hub of our health professionals in the fight against COVID-19, the UPPGH must also be provided with all the needed support and recognition, not only in the form of memorializing the afflicted and fallen healthcare personnel, our heroes who give hope to us all, but more so to provide the needed equipment, additional personnel, facilities, and benefits and compensation that it truly deserves. Each of the constituent units shared whatever it could to provide for the needs of their constituents during the ECQ, such as food and financial aid, academic support, mental health, and psychosocial services, temporary housing, and many others. And certainly, not the least among our efforts, the creation and hosting of this webinar series, Stop COVID-19 Clinical Management Updates, in partnership with the UP Manila National Institutes of Health, National Family Health Center, TV UP, to keep our fellow Filipinos informed about the COVID-19 pandemic. The Stop COVID-19 webinar series is the Philippines at first and only frontline for those medical webinar series. It pioneered the discussion, dissemination, and widespread adoption of knowledge on COVID-19 treatment and management in the country. With some 40,000 attendees today from around the world, it is a key element in the Philippines' concerted pandemic response. The Filipino frontline medical workers are our primary stakeholders. Most of our attendees are physicians, nurses, researchers, and allied medical workers. The webinars facilitate peer interaction and greater coordination across the medical field, disseminating scientific information, best practices, and the latest research developments. It made simpler for both professionals and the general public to better understand and utilize at knowledge in their daily struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic. We have certainly gone a long way since our first episodes on treating COVID-related diseases. We have tackled crucial cases studies and disseminated essential learnings from our hospitals, delved into discussions about virus mutations, and at present, deal with needs versus benefits of vaccination. These have led to the creation of health protocols and safety policies. When shared freely to the media and the public, these best practices help educate more people about what to do to be able to cope with the challenges and the changing landscape during the pandemic. Let us key on supporting our constituents. While the vaccination hub in Yucidiliman is still being set up and the sport facilities are being prepared for the needed quarantine of our affected residents, the struggle to keep ourselves and our constituents healthy and safe will, no doubt, continue as we do not yet see the end of this crisis. The popping up of community pantries across the nation just last week signals to us a new hope rising from the communities around us. Now, we see ordinary people from our very old neighborhoods come together to offer what they can to alleviate the situation of our more underserved neighbors. They bring food and other essentials to the poor and the hungry. The youth from UP were among the first to show us their desire to help others through the community pantries. They inspire us to do more for our underprivileged countrymen. Sa kanilang ginawa ang Bodegang Bayan, nating nila ang ating pusot isipan na makapangambag ng anong makakaya para sa ating kapwa. Ipinapakita nilang may hatng tapagasa ang pakakaisa at pakikipagdulungan sa kapwa. Thank you for joining us in this undertaking. I am truly grateful to work with the country's excellent and dedicated personnel. I look forward to more episodes that will tackle the emerging issues and challenges of the pandemic we are facing today. I congratulate most of all our expert panel of presenters, reactors, restaurants, persons and hosts in every episode of Stop COVID Dets for the unwavering commitment of these life-changing initiatives. They are heroes who help save lives and serve us our guiding light to help us through these dark times. May this episode provide the enlightenment we need in this time of crisis and help us see more profound meaning and inspiration in performing our work. Malagay ang aniversario po sa lahat na mga nagging bahagi ng Stop COVID Dets webinar series. Makakabaman po tayo mula sa crisis, mapagkatagumpay ang po natin ang labang ito. Babuhay po kayo. Thank you very much. That's UP President Danilo Kansypshan. And it's my distinct honor to welcome to our webinar somebody who we've invited not to talk about the Department of Health, but we've invited Secretary Francisco T. Duque III to be with us because he is part of our community. Even before COVID, Secretary Duque has been serving in the government for a long time. He is one of us. And so pinunlahan niya tayo na magkaruna ilang minuto lang para batihin kayo lahat. And so we'd like to welcome Secretary Francisco Duque. Duque, welcome to the webinar. Hi, magandaong magasayo. Dr. Susan Pineda Mercado, who is fondly known to us at Susie. You know, the field health Mrs. Yu, nang nagawa sa napakamay kasing panahon, may kaya nanildihan bilang number of the board. Asana makabalik ka na. Duque, how are you? How are you? Okay naman, hirap na hirap pa rin. Akala ko na nalampasan natin yung August surge. Bua ba na September, October, tapos nagpatot tayo ng November, December, January, February. Masaya na tayo. NCR was reporting 300 cases lang per day. And now it's 5,000 more or less. So bigot. Pero kaya nga pinakitalin nyo kanina ang atin minibigyan pugay na mga bayani ang atin po mga healthcare workers. Eh, kahit naman paano silang nagiging pinanggalingan ang lakas natin at inspiration. Kahit na gano kahirap ang trabaho, araw-araw, bisan di ka na nakatulong, dalawang berness at dalawang lunes, wala na weekend. So talaga mahirap na mahirap. Pero ganun pa naman, wala naman katuturan kung hindi natin bibigyan ng pangtilala. Napakamalake na inayambad ng atin mga healthcare workers nito. Sa unang-unang, sa pagkalinga at pangangalaga ng atin po mga COVID patients, as well as the non-COVID patients. At ikanga, talaga nga nagbuwiz sila ng kanilang buhay. At ang kanilang pangguwiz ng kanilang buhay, wala nga katumbas. At itong ginagawa natin ang ngayin ang groupo, saludo po ako sa inyo dahil talaga iniahangat natin sila. Sa lugar para makilala ng taon mayan, ng mung mundo na ito, atin po mga namayani, mga gagawa sa sektor ng kanusuga. At ibarito mga kaklasi ko pa. Yung mga ibang kumahanaw dito, mga kamanganak, mga kaklase. So talaga napakabigat sa dam damil. Pero ikang, ay, meron pala ako magandang maripasa inyo. Kausap ko yung chairman ng Asyana. Alam yung Asyana, yung sa me reclaimed land naman lakay, mga 44 hectares dyan. Sa paranyake at pasa, it straddles to cities. Kakausap ko yung chairman, kaili na lang. Tinawagam ko siya, si chairman Ding Wan, si Slau. Meron siyang itatayon na part. Ako yung nagmungkahi sa kaya, nakumpedeng i-memorialize yung mga pangalan ng lahat ng mga pumanaw either sa pag-Sysilmi pangalagan ng mga paciente o na expose doon sa COVID patients nila, whether in the line of duty or na expose nila, we don't need to make that distinction anymore, mas I healthcare workers. So I'd like to ask for all the names para ma-planu na at mailagay yung mga pangalan nila with the permission of their families, of course, na ma-heat na bagay that we can dedicate this part of the park which is about one hectare behind the St. John Paul the Second Church along justado makapagal Boulevard in Paranyake. So sana gawin natin tung proyekto na ito na sa tulong ninyo may isa katuparan natin itong maganda na pakain at line in ito. I know that you're really very, very busy and we really wanted to have this opend on the chat people are saying thank you for spending this short time with us and Sek, pagkakatao natin ano na I think you said you lost some of your classmates. Yes, yes. Yeah, so how are you coping with that? Magbigap, of course. But I don't have the words to express the depth of the sense of loss, irreplaceable. But we continue to think and pray for them. Well, anyway, I guess I'll just say my message. This capture the essence of my thoughts and feelings about those who died in general and in particular those who I have known and lived with, spent my medical education days with. So maraming yan. So anyway, my fellow frontline workers, it has been a year and I know you're all very tired. The challenges are great but you have done very well. In fact, you have done exceedingly well. And I'm proud of all Filipino healthcare workers around the world who work in unbearable conditions. I know it has not been easy and there has been a lot of pain and suffering. I am one with you and I pray every day that each one of you will have the strength to persevere and through God's grace. We will get through this together. We may all be filled with disappointments, frustration and anger about our circumstances. But we can rise above this and bring hope, encouragement and inspiration to all those around us. We are health workers and we do this with or without a pandemic. We must bear light. We must do this. We will do this. We shall do this. I have served as secretary of health at the most difficult times in modern history and we are all serving our country, our people, our God at a time that is extremely difficult We can get through this together. Let us join hands and continue to fight this terrible pandemic. At the one-year anniversary of the University of the Philippines, stop COVID deaths. Webinar which has grown in lips and bounds and now has a steady following of health workers around the country and beyond. Congratulations and my heartfelt appreciation to the work that you are doing. Dr. Susie and Dr. Raymond. Our host today, director Gigi Alfonso and the TV UP team, UP Vice President Manny Perna, Assistant Vice President Vika Abad, Dr. Gap Legaspi, Dr. Manchik Padilya, Dr. Charlotte Cheon, Executive Vice President Ted Herbosa, UP President Danny Concepcion, thank you all. The University of the Philippines has never failed the nation even in its darkest moments. And again, this webinar series is a testament to that commitment of the university to excellence and service to the people. Information is one of our weapons against this pandemic and you in the webinar series have created a sharp and powerful sword against the enemy. The virus. Through this weekly webinar, you have consistently gathered our frontliners to listen to the best and the brightest. No other institution has been able to do this with passion and reliability. Please continue to do this and bring our frontliners the latest information as you have done for the past 52 weeks. Earlier in the pandemic, I had the chance to speak on the webinar and I would like to thank you for that chance to address our frontliners again through this forum. Yanakumusta ko po kayong lahat. Pumupugay po ako sa inyo bilang inyong kalihim at nananalangin. Nananalangin po tayo na patuloy napatnubayan ng pung may kapal sa panahon na ito. Salamat po at mabuhay ng stop COVID deaths. Maraming-maraming salamat. Sangala ng Department of Health. Sama ko na rin ang buong interagency task force on emerging infectious disease. Salamat. Thank you very much, Secretary Duque. We know you're busy. Thank you so much for your time and for that heartfelt message to all of those who are with us today and we can see in the chat box that people are thanking you and seeing your sincerity and service as you mentioned. There are a lot of frustrations but we're all in this together so maraming salamat po. Sek Duque, we have a short video of five minutes. We don't expect it to stay for the whole webinar but maybe you can watch the anniversary video so you could see what we've done in the past year. So maraming salamat po sa inyo, Secretary Duque and we're praying for you Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Maraming-maraming salamat. Dr. Susie, Dr. Raymond at lahat po, bubo na inyupong webinar at sana ito po ay patuloy rin ninyo at napakamagandang pinanggagalinan na mahalagang mga information at isang pawamaraan na kahit na nakakalayo tayo ay nakapag kamahagi tayo ng atin mga nararawnasan kabang tinutugonan natin ang pandemian. Maraming salamat po muli. Thank you, thank you Sek Duque. Thank you. So TVUP, we'd like to show our anniversary video and maybe Sek Duque can still watch it even if he's not on cam so let's go with our anniversary video. On March 11, 2020, five weeks after the first confirmed case in the Philippines, the World Health Organization has declared the novel coronavirus outbreak as a global pandemic. The pandemic had spread quickly, was sowing fear and causing deaths. On March 15, a community quarantine was declared for the national capital region. On March 16, it was extended to cover the whole island of Luzon. Clinical management was a black hole. There were limited studies and not enough evidence for standardized protocols. Many health facilities did not have sufficient personal protective equipment or infection control measures in place. Little was known about transmission. By April, more than 20 doctors died from the pandemic. Throughout the world, hospitals and health professionals were unprepared for the pandemic in the Philippines that was a need for real-time information on what worked and what didn't. During this time, the Philippine General Hospital was designated as one of the three COVID-referral centers and clinicians started to conduct research on management. At this point in time, there were new approaches that seemed to work. Our experts worked with experts of Wuhan to exchange information, learning from mistakes of the first few weeks. The Philippine General Hospital had adopted new protocols that was resulting in fewer deaths. Six weeks after the first community quarantine, the very first stop COVID deaths webinar was launched by the University of the Philippines in partnership with the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation initially. The series had one goal to inform practitioners of the best ways to stop COVID deaths. Practitioners volunteered their time and knowledge to share what they knew with the entire medical and health community. It was in vision that the series would reach every health facility, health center and anyone who wanted to help stop COVID deaths. The webinar was first to acknowledge that COVID-19 was not just a respiratory problem and that the diverse voices from different perspectives need to be heard. From day one until discharge naki-usap ko ako sa mga doctors na I'm too emotional. I want to stay with my son. I want to stay with my son. The moment that I gained my senses already, I was trapped in my hospital bed. I was trapped and then I have already intubated. So it's like I'm very helpless at that point in time. It's like I cannot do anything. The cancer unfortunately has become the forgotten sea in the midst of COVID-19. I hope people will be encouraged to pray every day. It is the source of interior strength for everybody. When I started practicing as a community doctor it was very overwhelming para it was the feeling is boulders and mountains are being thrown into me. Ganun ko yung level of difficulty of the challenges that I had to overcome. When you are a nurse, you know that every day you will touch a life or a life will touch yours. So thank you for so I think for us, for the patients, for the public to calm down we need to be able to approach this in a more systemic approach. So all all of society, all of community we should really do this together. We don't want any more dead health care workers. In fact, naman natin na paglulok sayong mga na matay natin kay vegan. The webinar was the first in the Philippines to have the virtual grand rounds with the case studies presented through the art of storytelling and captured the pulse of the masses by the person on the street interviews. The webinar continuously engaged the audience with rich discussions thought-provoking questions and answer sessions and even having select attendees ask the questions live on camera to the panel resulting in a highly involved and participative weekly Friday habit for everyone. The Stop COVID Deaths webinar series 49 webinars 34 special topics 15 virtual grand rounds two virtual international conferences two national town hall meetings for hospitals one national book launch over 150 experts from the academia private and public hospitals government agencies private sector professional associations patients groups media friends faith-based organizations and so much more with one goal to stop COVID Deaths. Together, let us stop COVID Deaths. So keep safe, keep healthy and see you online. Merami sa nandat po at TVP and sa inyong lahat to our audience, thank you so much. We are now going to give away some more This will be our third set of recipients of our commemorative pen holder designed by artist Lanell Abueva siya po ang pamangkin I believe by our national artist po Abueva so you will be seeing 20 names 20 new names again here so hopefully we'll be able to be able to deliver all of these pen holders sa inyong po so maraming-maraming salamat po at this point po before we go into well our webinar proper if you will may I ask TVUP to display eto kung sa Menti, there we go. So for those na meron po very very new po ito www.menti.com magbukas po mo na kayo na inyong web browser Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge or kung ano man po please type in www.menti.com may dalawalang naman po na katanungan at kapag putan nyo po sa www.menti.com lagay nyo po ang code na 1-9-5-8 8-6-4-9 at ang unapong katanungan www.menti.com so please continue to pee in your answers maraming na po ang sumasali sa ating dalawalang po ang ating katanungan for today so habang kayo po ay nagtipein nag-input ng inyong mga kasagutan I'd like to take this opportunity to greet those who are joining us all the way from the University of Northern Philippine Hospital in Vegan, Ilocosur Bago City Health Office Bago City Negros Occidental from the DOH Treatment and Rehabilitation Center in Argao Sebu from the Mindanao Doctors Hospital in Tabakan, Potabato in Sok Sargent internationally we still continue to be watched and viewed po I think this is the first time that I'm seeing someone attending from Rawal Pindi Medical University in Rawal Pindi, Pakistan also one from M.B.Global University in Pakistan, India so iingat po kayo sa mga ating mga kababayan na na sa India po alam ko po ay alam po namin na medyo kailagang dire straights po ang na sa India po at dahil ko sa COVID surge so we will keep you in our prayers for now we hope for a better situation for our mga kapatid na na sa India po man from Taipei, Taiwan from Universitas Advent Indonesia in Bandung West Java Indonesia from Sarawak, Malaysia from Tawiwata na Bangkok, Thailand means city in Vietnam Mahjaldental Alcobar Saudi Arabia from Stanford Healthcare Redwood City in California Neptune City in New Jersey in the United States our regular from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada West Clinic Stock and Hoffa if I pronounce that correctly with now Germany so dito po sa unang katanungan marami po ang nagsabing no pero may ramin mayroon din po kontin na lang po at abota po na isandaan ang mga sabing nanonod na nagkaroon po ng COVID so for our next question may we ask okay there we go 2 ang naman po ang ating katanungan for today have you lost a love one mayroon po ba kayong love one na kumano na po dahil po sa COVID-19 so we are seeing very very similar results as our first question in the interest of time we will shift to our webinar proper but please continue to enter your answers po may we introduce our main discussion for today Dr. Susie okay thank you very much so we are going to keep the Mentimeter there and please continue to keep him we just want to know because we want to know who are the COVID-19 and the question was is it just symptoms so we are just defining if you are being managed for COVID-19 even if you tested negative you can say that it was a yes okay so we are now going to our main speaker and again we are very fortunate to have with us someone who has been with us from the beginning of the webinar and who has helped us think through how to be best support you as front-liners and our special guest today is the chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the University of the Philippines Philippine General Hospital non-net welcome to the webinar yes Susie, I'm back oh, teka mo na parang nang minakita ko dyan kanirang mga pink flowers what are the pink flowers? the lonely bogeen villa from South America shaped into bonsai at the blooming now oh okay so you are marami kang halaman ganakon dalas ka nagdidilig ngon ay nil ako nagdidilig na siya do nagtuturo lang ako sa pagdidilig dumay nagdidilig kasi matanda na ko but I do the cutting I do the shaping oh okay so you shaped the bonsai the bogeen villa into bonsai wow alam mo nga adres ko alam mo naman ako dyan okay Dr. Tronco please go ahead with your presentation oh okay good morning can you show us the first slide what will been so far can be captured in one words suffering and pain and we saw Susie respond emotionally the video of the memorial and that probably captures what it is that we feel all these 13 months of the pandemic and in that context I thought that a year and one month after the pandemic it is important to talk about how do you find meaning in our suffering in our remaining uncertainty and fear next slide so let me ask what is the meaning of life you will not probably resonate to this next slide please but if I ask you now what is your life's meaning at the moment in your present situation as a caregiver in your personal circumstance and in relation to the present uncertainty and reality of our lives that question will probably resonate to you because finding meaning is a personal journey and we need to pause we need to linger and in the end pray more to hopefully find the answer to this as we move through the uncertain future of the finish line next slide I have used Dr. Victor Frankl's book the case for tragic optimism as the main focus of this conversation Victor Frankl was a doctor, neurologist and psychiatrist who survived the Auschwitz camp in World War II and from that gripping experience of the uncontrollable suffering and fear of dying Victor Frankl lived to tell the story of the experience and called it there is a reason for tragic optimism in the worst of our life's circumstance so I thought he might be fitting because right now many of us feel that this is testing beyond our limits because we'll still far from the finish line we all have to find meaning in our life the man in the streets the people we talked with for the past year everyone thinks about the meaning of life in this pandemic what is the perception of meaning it is actually a sudden awareness of a possibility against a background of reality and each one according to the beating of the drum there is no certain and best past but our personal and unique and subjective past to find meaning Frankl says that one remains optimistic despite the tragic triumph pain and he knows what that means and finally the intimations of death next slide Frankl furthers one finds life's potential meaning in spite of its tragic aspects even in the most miserable times tragic optimism includes turning pain into human achievement and accomplishment deriving from guilt opportunity to change one's self for the better and deriving from life's transitoriness death and incentive to take responsible action for one's self and for the greater good next slide but you may ask how does one find meaning of what can be done in this most difficult times it can be expressed by creating a work of art after all art is the expression of the divine experiencing someone in love or as simple as taking a pause appreciating beauty and nature and look at the sunset or the dawn today next slide finally Frankl puts it this way in the end it is the attitude that we take over unavoidable circumstances that help us find meaning as he recounted in his book the search for meaning that he wrote after he survived the concentration camp he saw people in the concentration camp in their older hunger share bread to their brethren who they felt was in greater need as they were herded from one camp to the other along the way some of those looked out of the window between one camp to the other I will use the metaphor and the lotus flower is the image in this series of slides because from the smock the lotus blooms so from this miserable state that we have what will emerge of it it's kindness self compassion kindness for others and simply put loving one another next slide I will share with you stories how five people found meaning in adversity and suffering in the pandemic in their own condition of being seriously ill most of them are doctors because those are most of the doctors who are conducting a lot of sharing stories many of them are doctors it is not to say that the other people in this community of healthcare workers are not struggling in finding meaning in their own lives today the first two stories are spirituality in the face of serious COVID-19 infection the story of Dr. Nelson Abilardo both cardiologists next slide please oh no please no sorry Dr. Roddy C is a respected cardiologist one of the respected scientists in Asia a well respected mentor and a well-loved teacher when he recounted his story also in this city webinar series what is most striking and when I listened to him in the Department of Medicine Grand Rounds talking about having the face of a COVID-19 patient what came out of his story was that in his confinement a nurse who turned out to be of the same face eventually sat with him in his isolation very ill but the nurse and him talked about verses from the Bible and when he recounted his story he concluded by saying that it was really his faith and his surrender to God that really made him survive the serious illness Dr. Abilardo on the other hand he's also a successful cardiologist he's good he's disciplined he has a rigor he was able to achieve a certain state of financial security and he was able to feel the respect of peers and then he got sick in his story again in a similar manner that Dr. Roddy C. spoke about his increasing faith he realized that fame many accomplishments being good in one's field don't really matter what really matters is one unseasing faith in God and that one has to surrender to him those are the meanings that they imbue their experience with the COVID next slide the third story is about a patient who I started seeing six months ago and he's still seeing me as we join it together after his serious stroke which led him paralyzed on the left with sensory motor and proprioception problems and even balance the moment the surgeon loses strength of one of his hands it becomes a very tragic event but because his life was that of rigor because his life was that of struggling and surviving his life until eventually becoming a surgeon he put his attention to recovering and a few months back he was able to actually say that I am almost recovered in terms of my capacity to operate and be a surgeon and then he showed me a picture of him doing circumcision a few months ago and then he also saw me he also showed me a video of himself biking and just two weeks ago he showed me a video of what he would do when he was still part of the UP Pep Squad which is a cartwheel a very difficult stunt in the Pep Squad but the most touching story he said was a month ago when he brought her 2-3 year old daughter to the park and she played in the monkey bar and then the daughter fell and then she was he was able to catch where his daughter with his left hand and he said that contrary to his previous thought that the meaning of his life was about being an expert surgeon trade abroad and spending a lot of his time treating patients he realized that the meaning of his life is changing to saying that I would want to be a good surgeon but primarily I want to be a father who would be around to catch my children before they fall Next slide we have been getting people to share their stories as they work in the COVID ward because we realized that people we have to witness the experience of our frontliners because by witnessing to their difficulty hopefully it will alleviate their pain and they will not feel alone because people share that sense that I am experiencing a range of human emotions anger fear anxiety and when you listen to another sharing the same story it is a very important event when you feel that you are in this together one story was about a female resident in internal medicine what is the meaning of his serving in the COVID ward of taking care of the COVID patients despite the fear of getting it herself and then she said I find a sense of pride in the fact that someday I can tell my grandchildren that she worked as a frontliners of a global pandemic a very refreshing point of view and another internal medicine resident just first year when she entered when the COVID came he said that he finds meaning in working as a frontliners as an expression of his oath as a doctor at dayo taga peyup siya sa pag silbisa bayan which I'm not surprised about despite the fear of him and his family contracting the disease three doctors five doctors different ages different faces of their professional life each of them sharing a slice of what the meaning of life is in the face of this pandemic next slide now let me bring back the question to you the second one I ask what is your own meaning of life there is no prescription as to what the meaning of life in this pandemic will be it will be as unique and specific to your own personal circumstance but does it mean that you want to finish your work about it after all, art is an expression of the divine you want to publish a decade of work as an act of responsible action in the face of death around us or you want to be a parent or a father who is present to catch his child before she falls beyond becoming an expert in his field as Jay Sheneb or probably the most overarching meaning that I personally find extremely important now is to be more intentional in kindness and compassion to self and others next slide I am biased to talking about culture because I'm a social psychiatrist but they thought that it is important to reiterate a message about the wellspring of strength of the Filipino coming from the culture that has nurtured us in the context of our growing up and the context of our negotiation of the pandemic we are a relational people rather than an individualistic people compared to the West so talking with people getting then to be in groups of six to eight and letting them to respond to the question kamusaka is something that resonates to all in the same breath is very nervous titled kamusaka after one year and one month after the pandemic because the language of kamusaka is a relational expression when we ask kamusaka we actually want to listen and engage in an emotional way to the person next to us and because of our relational nature we actually share our personal narratives one another and we realize that we are not alone in the face of COVID-19 that we're able to cope that we're able to provide solutions and finally we find meaning in this experience number next slide please secretary duke in the tail end over top and in his aunt's class what did he say? that us pray and pray and pray but I think that is also the reservoir from which our resilience emanates even if our rituals for expressing our faith may have the pagan roots before the Spaniards arrive we you and I know that most of us have a sense of prayer and spirituality and that is a very important context when we actually pause reflect sit down in prayer next slide the committee pantry is a very concrete expression over sense of community and volunteerism it is not strange to us that when someone dies or someone is in need the authentic and spontaneous reaction of the Filipino is to us and do something to us it is almost like the language of connection of people and we have to highlight that it is a very important resource that is very present in our culture and finally I will reiterate we have a sense of self for others and we have therefore the context of showing compassion and connectedness which is a very important dimension in keeping as well next slide finally who would dare question that our sense of family is many times the reason why we want to survive this pandemic why is it so important to us to keep ourselves well we are not even speaking of our children or our parents we are speaking about our aunts our spinster aunts to care of us who guided us we are going beyond the nuclear family and the family that has always provided a unit and which we could rely on is here again in this very critical times now let next slide I made this point because I thought that words as I have talked about it from Victor Frankl to the experience of the five doctors to the role of culture in how we survive those are words but probably to summarize what I said is to put it in a poem because when I read a poem hopefully it will better resonate to you I will read it aloud in between our logical thoughts lie the uncharted and the unknown the reservoirs are still to be discovered self their lies off wonderment inspiration kindles a sense of me next slide in the murky waters of self-doubt uncertainty and lack of control grows and blooms the lotus flower of self-compassion kindness and love interconnects us with the other as if in a dance to the rhythm of a shared beat next slide and predictability abounds fear fear fear creeps then we feel nearest our God refer to ourselves with say surrender next slide listen to that newly discovered self a wellspring of possibilities dwell be kind be gentle and in grace be thankful next slide as we see our lives as a painting we ourselves have painted and feeling the layers when we change our chartered course discovering the moments in our past our sufferings and triumphs next slide the good and the bad are just a memory away in the phase of all these that confront us we draw from a life lived our laughter, joy kindred spirits and foe and yes the ones we love and lost and loved next slide if the mundane and concreteness of our day to day life we slowly see differently feel differently and we'd resolve with say seize the day and act as a way of ending I have only three active birds to end this lecture pause a little linger a little and pray more with that thank you very much that was thank you very much it was doctor Ansel Mononet Tronco the chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at the Philippine General Hospital let me turn over to Raymond will call on our reactor thank you for the well the excellent presentation doctor Tronco as always at this point I'd like to call on our PGH spokesperson who's also very well known to us well the history in particular during this pandemic has gone around the block so to speak in terms of how it resonates with all of us so we'll further ado at least to introduce Dr. Donas Del Rosario from the Philippine General Hospital Dr. Donas Magandang hapon to sa inyong lahat minta nyo ba ako yes sir Magandang hapon po at one year anniversary in fact lakpasta tayo ng one year anniversary at maraming salamat kay professor doctor Tronco sa kanyang magandang shinayar sa atin so I'm here to react pero bago ako magsalitad al medyo may kontin kalungkutan ng aking kuwento at utan naman ngayon ay anniversary na alala ko tuloy halos mga ganitong time nung ako ay na sa meeting na kami covid crisis committee naging isip kami paano ba natin maimpost ang minimum health standards na medyo maalala dila so na kabiruan kami at gumawa ako ng medyo nakakatawang kanta para lang maalala namin yung mga measurements at dahil kami medyo may katandaan kinuha ko po yung kanta nung carpenters close to you so tungkol po to sa social distancing so allow me to sing a little bit of that song ato yun pwede bang wakit ba ako ay napapraning every time you are near dahil sa covid-19 ayokong maging close to you pwede bang isoot ang mascara at kontin distan siya pa dahil sa covid-19 ayokong maging close to you mangaling daw sa wanto kumalat sa buong mundo at ibang bansay nagkagulo kaya itigil ng beso-beso takpan ang yung bibig pagumubo that is why magugas ng kamay at paka madamay dahil sa virus she wants to be close to you magingat sa kasama mo PCR niy positive o kahit na siya symptomatico sanay matigin ng pandemiyang ito marami nanggutong sabayan ko that is why waggang pasaway at baka ikamatahay dahil sa covid-19 ayokong maging close to you yan anyway magigay ko po ang aking mixing reaction sa sinabi ni Dr. Tronco tamang-tama po kasi sabi nga misan mapagbiro ang buhay at ang aking pangpaglaban sa covid-19 ay nagsimula one day after my 55th birthday at ito ang sumalubong sa akin although alam na namin at tinanggap ng PGH ang hamon para maging covid-referral center at araw-araw sa ginawan ng jos kung misan po ay ako yung umaharap sa media para po explain sa publico kung ano po ba ang ginagawa natin sa PGH at kung misan po ay natatanong din ako ng mga bagay-bagay tungkol sa covid-19 kaya kailang ko po magtanong sa maexperto at magbasarin para naman po tayo ay maging credible so at the same time po dahil tayo covid-referral center ang mga bata pung may sakit sa puso na may covid-19 ay aming ginagamot at kung misan po ay nagsosot din kami ng mga hindi komportabing level 4 PPE so ang aking pang experience sa covid-19 in away parang professional isang topic na aking kailang imaster at isang duty sa hospital na dapat na bilang doktor ay umarap sa mga ibang mga pacientin na may covid-19 so ok lang sa akin nyo na parang kaya kung dalil pero sabi nga nila kapag hanggang hindi mo na sosotan sa patos na iba hindi mo talaga masyadong may itindi ang kunsan sila pinang sanang gagalik so ang una kung talagang medyo malungkot na personal na naging problema sa covid-19 ay july 11 anim na buaraw bago mag celebrate ang aking ama ng kanyang 90th birthday ay na admit siya sa pgh for covid-19 at ang sabi ko sa aking ama ikaw ang pinakamatandang may covid-19 sa pgh at ikaw rin ang pinakamatandang makakauwi dito of course alam ko kung ma-isolate ang isang paciente kapag may covid-19 bawal po ang bantay kawaisolo sa kwarto para sa isang senior citizen ay anong kung mahirap dito kaya dalawang lingo mga dalawang oras sa umaga at dalawang oras sa bandang gabi ay aking papasyalan ang aking ama soot itong PPE na napakahirap palang isuot at dun ko naintindihan ang pagod na nadadaman na ating mga frontliners so dinadalong pinibisita ko siya pinapakain pinakauusap para madaman niya na hindi siya nag-iisa at nung nag-birthday po ang aking ama sa pgh July 17 ay dun naman ng aro na yun kailangan ko rin dali ng aking ina sa pgh dahil siya po ay nahawang rin at matindi po ang kanyang sakit at sa madalit sabi ay siya po ay nilangandalin sa ICU so for the last for that next 10 days ay dalawap po ang aking binibisita ngunit sa aking okay naman dahil kaya paano na sa PGH ko nakikita ko sila at napupuntahan ngunit parang hindi pa sa patang pagsubok na yun at ito naman after 2 weeks ako naman ang na-admit nakaramdampo ako ng mga symptoms ng COVID nung unay ay ako pang tanggapin dahil siguro ay pagod lang pero nung hirap na ako huminga sinabihan na nilako na ako ay kailangan mag-admit ako nga ay may COVID at ako rin ay may nungunya at ito po ang pagkakataon na to parang food jatt na kami na ay magkakahiwala na sa isang floor lang po kami na sa 6 floor po kami ng PGH at aking inay na sa ICU aking ama ay na sa isang quarto at ako inay na isang quarto ngunit hindi ako makihalubilo sa kanila dahil ako rin ay nakikipaglaban sa COVID so dito po pumasok at naalala ko ang sinabi ni Dr. Tronco na isa sa pinaka important pinangahawakan tao kapag lalo na kung naharap ka sa kamatayan ay mapapaisip ka siyempre at na napakalaking bagay ang fate ang pananang palataya ta yun po ang isa sa mga bagay na nakapagpag lakas sa aking ng loob para dumaban kasama na po lahat ng desal na na natanggap ko at napadala sa aking na ating mga kaibigan at mga kasama sa trabaho at alam na maramay ng lahat siguro maramin na rin nakabasa sa aking story hindi po pinalad ang aking mga magulang alus magkasunod po silang na matay ang masakit po alam niyo po pag na matayan ka sa COVID ang amaku po ang unang na matay ay hindi mo siya talagang mayakap ng gusto lahil kadalasan kailangan na sandalin sa morgue at kailangan na reincremate so ang aming paikipag usap ko ay telemedicine lang ang aming iPad misa naguusap kami sa telepono pero ang alam natin kapag ikaw ay na sa hospital ang Filipino way kung paano magalaga ng isang may sakit ay hindi mo magagawa dahil hindi ka nga pwede nga makalapit halos so na pakasakit po sa aking on na bilang doktor wala po ako nagawa para sa aking ama yung po ang aking paka-remdang at after a few weeks ay sumod naman po ang aking ina ako po ay nakauwina pero ito po kung may kita niyo sa literato ang po ang aking ay kita isang screen na parang gusto mo nga magawa mami ang magawa ngunit alam mo na hindi ka makapasok doon at lahat po nga nakita ko ang pagod ng ating mga healthcare workers frontliners na nagalaga po sa aking magulang at patina rin po sa aking so ito po ang aking reaction para masabi lang paano po ba bumabangon ang isang taong sugatan na may dinada lang mabigat para bumalik sa trabako ang siguro po masasabi ko sa tatlung paraan ang unap po siguro ay hanapin mo ang mga bagay na yung mapapasalamatan yun pung gratitude kung tawag at marami po sa kanina pinakita na mga literato mga frontliners na nasawi it could have happened to me lahat ako po ay maluba nung mga ilang araw at sa awa po ng jos at sa talino at kabaitan ang mga nagalaga po sa aking ako po ay nakasurvive so siguro po ay naisip ko ano bang kahulogan nito siguro may meron pa akong mission sa buhay at naisip ko rin siguro kaya binigay sa aking panginoon atong hamon ay ito para mapagsilbiang ko pang masmabuti kung ano yung ginagawa ko sa PGH dahil kung alam ko ang karanasan ng isang frontliner na lahat na kadilang pagihirap sa loob ng isang covid ward alam ko ang nararanasan ng isang paciente at lahat ng kanyang mga pandaman takot hirap pangamba at yun na rin nararamdaman ng isang taon na matayan na may covid siguro po doon sa kalalima na yun ay mas magiging effective po ako pagsalita at sabi nga po nila po ordinator for public affairs ng PGH dahil na isuot ko po ang sapatos nila ito kung litraton to ay sa mga huling litraton ko naki po sabi ko sa aking nurse na lagi ko lang naman nakikita yung mata nila ang selfie naman tayo punan mo ko para maalala ko to ito pang litraton na to ay pagpapatunay pagpapugay sa kadakilaan po ng mga frontliner mga nagaalaga po sa may covid buwis buhay po ang ginagawa ng ating mga kasamaan sa hospital kaya saludo po ako sa kanila ang pangalawang paraan po para ako makabangoon at makatulong ulit ay hanapin ko ang mga bagay bagay para maalala ko ang aking mga magulang at gawin ang mga bagay na kanilang ginagawa noon para po pagpapigay po gay na rin so ang aking mga magulang ay napaka matalungin so alam ko po kung sila ay ang sasabihin lang po nila sakin tulay mo lang ginagawa mo sa PGH at tumulong ka sa abot na yung makakaya so ito po ay January 8, 2021 mga I think ako po ay na discharge July 28 ay na mga August something na so mga alus 4 na 1 na po ito at sinabi nilang sir pwede na po kay magdonate ng plasma ako po ang promotor ng plasma donation sa PGH so finally nalgawa ko na po yung isa sa mga gusto kung magawa at mataslo po ang antibody level ko kaya nabigay ko po ito at napaka sayap po napakiramdam so ito po ang hulikong slide ito po ang mga kasama ko day in day out noon PGH COVID Crisis Committee matatapang at mga dedikadong tao di po kami halos magkakasama sa department pero para po kami magkakapatid dito po kami isa sa aming makakaya ay humuhugot ng lakasay sa isa sila po ang nga ngayon ay hindi tumitigil mag-isip kung pano natin may improve ang ating operation sa PGH no so kung sasabihin ano ba atong Dr. Jonas so lumaban medyo natalo ng bahagya tumata yung ngayon at piliit na lumalaban mule so yun lang po at gusto ko po ang sasapusin sa awit natin ginawa namin tungkol po kung gano kahirap magkakovid so ang title po ay mahirap magkakovid ito po yun mahirap talagang magkakovid di ba hindi ka mabisita pag na hospital na mahirap oh mahirap talagang galing ito sa virus na corona kapag ang PCR mo ay nag-positive na tiglamong may isipang iyong pamilya saan ba sino ba paano ba nahawa jos ko po katapusan po na ba kailangan mong sabihin sa trabaho mo pati na rin sa mga nakahalubilo pag nakausap mo sila para aminin mo mga kakosa ko baka na damay kayo mahirap talagang magkakovid di ba lamang ka ng balita ng bangaches mo sa unit kahit ano pang sabihin dila balang araw makakatulong sa iba mahirap magkakovid di ba tingin sa yong ay salot wag nang babalik pa unit kahit ano pang sabihin dila balang araw makakatulong sa iba kapag ako'y nakarecover na kapag ako'y may antibodies na mabibigay ako ng aking plasma yun po rami, salamat thank you very much that's Jonas Del Rosario the Spokesperson of the General Hospital and Jonas you've got a moment to look at everybody saying on the chat on the chat box alright let's move on to our next speaker and it is my pleasure to introduce to you the composer and writer so lyricist lyrics and music of what I call our anthem so sa dudo po nang lahat ng staff COVID deaths meron po tayong kanta hindi ba tapos pinapakita po yung mga larawan ng mga frontliners natin at mga pasasalamat sa mga kasama po sa production natin no na simula po kami sabihin namin dapat meron yung tatayin kanta sa dudo para para mahulin natin yung damdami ng tao tayo ay tao lamang meron tayong mga nararamdaman at habang nabibigay tayo ng impromasyon para palalimin ang ating pagunawa gusto din natin kong pagayakapin ng ating audience parang abutin ang kanilang puso so my pleasure to introduce Hardy Lopez our composer and lyricist for the stop covid deaths and the just won an award recently welcome ardie okay nang hapon po sa inyong lahat manayang po salamat sa pag-imita sa akin dito and happy anniversary to stop covid deaths and knock Jonas you're an inspiration that was a very fantastic presentation as well okay ardie I'm looking at your background and what they say is that you are a multimedia you're working in multimedia and you're a multimedia producer what is it behind you ano ba yung mga nandinsak paligid mo? where are you right now? I'm at home ito po ay ang aking studio kung saan lahat ng aking mga multimedia creations ay ginagawa ko I'm a journalist I write for the Philippine Daily Enquirer so motoring section I review cars and write about them tapos on the other side of what I'm doing I'm a multimedia producer so I do commercials corporate videos halo halo na po okay so you are writing about motoring and cars so how did you get to write this song which to be very honest with you ardie after each webinar I play I leave my computer on because I want to listen to the song because it it just makes me remember why we're doing what we're doing so what brought you to to write the song? well first of all thank you and I'm honored that you're using my song for stop COVID deaths yung primary motivator po isa po akong ama ng isang frontliner ang panganay ko po ay isang loktor siya po ay ilang taon na rin nagservice yabi lang frontliner ah well I mean bilang doktor at mula nung nagubisa po itong COVID-19 at naging frontliner siya so yun po ang unang dahilan pangalawa po of course because I'm a parent I think natural po sa atin na magalala tayo po ay wired to be protective of our young our children and nung dumating po yung pandemic lahat po tayo of course na bulaga kung bagad the rug was pulled from under our feet tapos ulapong masyadong information tungkol doon nung maagapan ng panahon ng pandemic lahat po anxious bordering on distressed and depressed so imagine yun po yung nararanda mo na isang magulang na of course gusto mo protecta han yung anak mo pero duty na yun po yung umaga magpapaalam siya by dad I'll see you tonight so parang masasabi mo lang talaga e ingat so di ba parang nalabanan mo yung takot mo and yung reflex mo na anak o ganan lang pumasok doli ka nung di pwede kasi that's her oath of service being a physician so kasama na ron yung bigot nung naiikita mo araw-araw sa social media ang kasama po sa mga kilalam mo ang amag-anak mo in sa isang nawawala masasanay ka na maglaki ng condolensis bumibigat yung pressure and di mo lang po han mararam na mong pa wala kang magagawa as a parent being helpless is one of the worst feelings ever especially if it's your blood your child if you've reared for more than a couple of decades na lumalabas yun and humaharap sa pandemiyang ito so the danger is real and meron siya mga colleagues na nai-kakuwento sa ame na na matay dahil magkaroon ang virus so I had to I had to fight my depression I had to fight my anxiety and of course I needed to do something about this because we were stuck in the house ano bang magagawa mo yun ang tanong ko anong magagawa ko tungkol sa ana ko tungkol sa society tungkol sa situation patit tungkol sa nararam na mga mong gusto ko nalimag ko kaysa ilalimang lupa at magtago dun so I needed to find an outlet and buti na lang na ipag na isang blessing ng ating panginoon nabigin ako ng kawantin talento sa musika naging trabaho ka rin yun noon composer, jingle writer for advertising dun ko po na hukay ang inspiration na gumawa ng kanta and ang naging intention ko po bukod sa ilabasang aking sa loobin ilagay ang mga tao sa sapatos ng isang frontliner I would like to put them into the shoes of a frontliner na malama nila na ang frontliners natin ay tao din lamang naakaramdam ng takot naakaramdam ng lungkot naakaramdam ng pagod hindi lang sa isip at sa katawan spiritually everything napakabigat po ng kanilang burden bilang frontliner and sa aking frustration na marami pa po hindi nagsisriyaso tunggu sa pandemic lalo na noon yun po ang mensai na ninais kung ipahewatig sa awiti na yun so yung title na I'll Hold the Line ginagamit po kasi yan sa nang mga militar in fact nung hiniram ng Department of National Defense yung kanta para gawin din na lang theme song and rara song para sa kanilang frontliners na hindi lang po medical ang ating frontliners of course even the military who are helping out yun po ang mag-resonate sa hana na yung I'll Hold the Line kasi ang I'll Hold the Line sa military terminology kapag talaga ayana po ang kalaban at talagang parang natatalo na kayo yung mga nasa harap ang frontliners ang mag-hold the line makakakapit-bisig sila nga sa magkaubusan sila wag lang tomawid ang kalaban yun po ang parallelism sa ating virus ang virus ang kalaban ang kakampipo ang ating mga tayo mga mamamaya of course pati frontliners sila po ang nasa harap sila po ang taking fire so to speak so kailangan kung ipadama sa mga tao na totoong-toto ang labang tungkol sa pandemic at ang ating mga frontliners na unti-unting na ubus ng panahon na yun kailangan po nating ng paraan para hindi mangyari yun gawin natin ng ating share para maibusan itong ating problema yun lang po Thank you very much Thank you so much R.D. for sharing that and later we will have a chance to listen to your song again and maybe with listening to it with a fresh perspective na yung pala ang pinanggalinganong I will hold the line So we now have a chance to bring everybody back so we're gonna ask Dr. Nonnetronco Dr. Dronas they still want you to sing some more and then we have R.D. of course to be we'll have a little bit of a discussion but meanwhile just to lighten our mood I think Raymond wants to give away some more some more pen holders meron pa ba rin para hindi pag-huming go ahead Raymond Okay, thank you so much Dr. Suzy actually very privileged we got I thought we were only going to get just one poem and one song mo kang ano pala we are going to get one poem, two songs maybe three songs pala account na nating kay Dr. R.D. siyempre sa dupulo po So maraming salawat po sa ating panilis TV UP may we have our second to the last set of recipients ng ating commemorative limited edition po na pen holder so maraming salamat po sa mga talagang kumatang tilik na no-no-odd po this is the second to the last set po the last set po meron lang po kaming pabulaga pumbaga in terms of the token of appreciation so maraming salamat po and then I think let's start the Q&A Dr. Suzy Right, okay So we've got Dr. Tronco we've got Jonas and we've got R.D. here with us and I guess I think maybe we can start off by talking about your reaction to this whole anniversary webinar for me to think nonit Dr. Tronco talked about taking a pause and I think we did but I'd like to hear from you seeing the videos hearing the songs seeing hearing the stories what is your reflection on this webinar we'll start with Dr. Tronco I really feel that by focusing on how we are 30 months after the pandemic there is an intuitive sense that you are going to get people who you probably didn't know at a sense of art and to me Dr. Dukit talked about it when we resonate about our experience R.D. talked about it Jonas talked about it in terms of doing something for others I think it is an expression of the spiritual in us but the common thread I think that resonated to you intuitively or intentionally turned out to be that you have a slice of three people who are expressing the divine in art so I thought that this TV webinar does not only relate to the mind to the intellect but actually I think it cuts deep I think as it did cut deep to you and ravened to the other members of the TV UP it cuts deep into a heart and a spirit and I think with that alone it is an extremely successful anniversary in the sense of ritual of the Filipino that we need to celebrate the dead but also the living and that is us Thank you Dr. Trompo Jonas Well, first I saw a video earlier when you were showing the in-memoriam presentation because a lot of them are our friends our colleagues and then also the AVP on basically how it all started and where we are now Ang masasabi ko and just like what we've been using sa PGH 2 bagay ang una po ay e isang bankat tayo or nasa e isang bankat tayo and so kailangan po natin ang bayan nihan dahil hanggang hindi tayo matuto magtulungan siguro po mas mahirap po yung laban at hindi paputapos yung laban hindi paputapos ang laban kailangan po natin akayin yung mga hirap na yung meika at yung mga medyo malakas pa ay mamuno para po ituloy ang laban so yun po kung yun po ang ating laging iniisip I think mas mapapadali wala po yung masyadong sisihan kundi pano ba natin tayo how can we move forward po at again napakaswerte po natin dahil ang Pilipinas po ay hindi naman po sa ang mga tao po mga Pilipino madasalin so ang tao po madasalin mas resilient kasi parang hindi ka lang humuhugot sa sarili mong lakas merong divine na alam mo na aapay sa yun so let's take advantage of that mga Pilipino po madasalin matulungin natin general po mabait na tao so I think we will eventually overcome this baka next year na anniversary at pinag-usapan natin Thank you very much Jonas R.D. Well first and foremost yung memorial video na nag-open itong ating webinar napakataching it's it's great that we are putting faces to those names who have sacrificed so much for this pandemic so parang of course dahil binigin natin sila ng magpupugay hindi na sila statistics hindi lang po sila mga pangalan na babasahin nakita mas nakaantig na may kita po natin nakandalang mga muka upang hindi sila makalimutan and yun nga yung mesmong account ni Dr. Jonas napaka riveting and so very jarring and touching despite yung talent niya sa pagkanta so it is it is important for us to I guess always remind people and teach them it's one very important tool in this fight against COVID-19 information hindi lang po sapat na yung mga efforts ng gobierno sarili natin efforts para to stay safe stay home and important din po na maglabas tayo ng information sa mga hindi po na kaalam po lang po nang pagsasabi yung mga mga ukulit ninyan so kasama po yun and I think this webinar series is doing such a good job at doing that so yun po atin po pagsasama-sama we are frontliners ourselves in terms of disseminating information that's needed thank you very much RD um Jonas magmumigay ka pa meron pa ba wala na po wala na po wala na po okay so sayang no but maybe maybe we will have we will have Samar in the future and it's just again a little way of saying thank you to everyone you know we're close to the top of the hour and I think it's been it's been truly a very touching journey this whole year has been a touching journey for all of us and as Dr. Tronco said it's important to pause to remember and to give our you know to look at the scenery to just enjoy a little bit more I mean this is I don't know I guess I'm very emotional about all the stories that we've heard today but anyway I don't think we're going to do Q&A I think what we would like to do is get our final messages from our speakers and we're going to start with RD what would you like to say to our thousands of followers of stop COVID deaths or in fact frontliners Yes I would like to express my deepest gratitude to our first and foremost the medical frontliners out there who are risking so much life and limb family everything you are very much appreciated sa lahat po ng ibang frontliners din na hindi lang po sa medical field na talagang nakikiisa sa ating laban toko sa COVID-19 maraming salamat din po at sa lahat po ng nanunood ngayon whether you're a frontliner or not mayan po tayong magagawa contribute sa laban ito by staying safe by staying home by following all the safety protocols at pagpapaalala meron po tayong voices we have our own voices and dahil po I guess mga katulun na ng social media tayo po yung makalat ng magantang information at positive ang inspiration sa ating mga mga mga mga thank you very much and let's continue to fight this all together thank you RB Jonas gusto ko lang po magpasalamat ulit sa lahat po ng mga frontliners nga ngayon po ay patuli na lumalaban ito po ay araw natin ating lahat whether you are a backliner a frontliner actually kung tutuusin po ay hindi lang naman po yung mga na sa hospital ang lumalaban sa COVID na kami po tayong magagawa information dissemination sharing of knowledge being kind being compassionate maraming maraming po talaga at tuloy lang po ang laban sabi nga nila wala huwag BBTO at naalala ko tuloy ang madalas namin pinagusapan ni director Misa na isa basketball kung baka na sa last two minutes po tayo at wala po napat ito na po yung clutch time hindi po natin dapat di si Patalo at hopoli yung last three seconds na sa ating yung bola labangang kalaban ng dalawa biglang may magandang play na tatawagin at makakapuntus tayo ng tatlo panalo so yun po thank you very much Jonas Doctor Tronpo nonip will just repeat what I said in the pay land of my lecture this is a time to pause a little linger a little opening close to station to smell the flowers and to pray so much more than we ever did in the past. Thank you Doctor Tronpo we do have an evaluation form which we're going to launch Raymond and are you going back to the meter Raymond are you going to show that will probably will ask TV may we have the evaluation form before anything else okay I think okay there we go so gaya po na nakangogulay ano po natin in our previous webinars this is just a way for you to be able to give us your feedback kung meron gano po ba ang inyong natutunan by answering the following questions the panelists demonstrated total knowledge of the topic the panelists were well prepared and organized the panelists spoke clearly and audibly the panelists used appropriate language with technical medical jargos adequately explained and number five the panelists contributed to new perspectives and knowledge on managing various fee COVID-19 health issues so anang kita ko lang po ay apunti unti po out of our nearly 1,500 attendees input lang po and key in your answers po dito po sa assessment or evaluation form before anything else perhaps we TVUP can you show po at the very least ang ating final set of recipients ng ating token of the recipient yes ating token po okay dito po ang huling huling group po ng makakatanggap po ng hindi lang commemorative pen holder but also a t-shirt so sila po kasi ahirang at malaman po sila po talaga ang ang pinakamasugit na tagapanoog tumatangkili every week po talaga maraming-maraming salamat po yun po yung surprise na meron po t-shirt kasi I saw in the chat mayayon po tayong t-shirt na i-design so for those who were able to see their names please expect both the commemorative pen holder and t-shirt nakapiling i-roll yung t-shirt sa loob na pen holder para po doon okay so we are seeing po the poll results go ahead Dr. Susi okay no okay so anyway anyway Raymond we have the email addresses of everyone so if you it went so fast and you didn't see your name right you will get an email from from the National 10 Health Centre okay so we're going to wrap up now and we would like to call on UP Manila Chancellor Manchit Padilya to give our synthesis and closing remarks Manchit over to you so today's anniversary today's anniversary episode is extra special the in memoriam AVP is TV UP's way of honoring and remembering the frontliners who have sacrificed their lives in the midst of COVID and they remain to be our inspiration the year in review AVP reminded the richness of the stop COVID deaths webinar series 49 webinars 34 special topics 15 virtual grand rounds two international conferences two national town hall meetings for hospitals one national book launch over 150 experts from the academia public and private agencies NGOs professional associations patient groups patient faith-based organizations media friends and more the webinar was opened by UP president Danilo Concepcion and he recognized the collaborative effort of the various units of UP in offering various forms of public service to our Filipinos President Concepcion mentioned some just some of the COVID-related contributions of UP corresponded immediately to the call of the times of course we have the testing laboratories the Filipino center and the national institutes of health the locally developed IPPCR kit by a scientist at NIH PGCEN NIH training the other laboratories for offering or offering PCR testing PGH is a COVID referral center we've got a dedicated UP website for information we're offering our campuses isolation centers and now vaccine deployment areas and of course these stop COVID deaths webinar series to keep our Filipino health workers informed is probably the highlight of today's anniversary this Friday habit is the first and only frontline focus to webinar series pioneering real time on the best practices latest developments on diagnosis treatment in the changing landscape Secretary Duque having watched the in-memoriam said he said the fallen heroes remain a source of our strength Secretary Duque also said that the names of the health workers fallen and living will be memorialized in a part so abagang po natin ito nag-iipo na sila na mga pangalan na mga doctor, nurse, maidwife at iba pang frontliners sa buong Pilipinas addressing our health workers Secretary Duque said yes we are all tired there is too much pain fear, frustrations but we will persevere and we will get through this together we will rise above we can do this together if we continue to serve together our main presenter is Dr. Nonit Rengko who tackled the topic finding meaning in softly uncertainty and fear finding meaning is a personal journey and actually he used the story of Victor Franko the case for a tragic optimism as an example as a case for today's discussion Victor was a survivor of the concentration camps and probably this is something we should read now and find out how it was in that book it says tragic optimism includes turning pain into human achievement and accomplishment number two deriving from guilt the opportunity to change oneself for the better number three deriving from one's transitoriness or death uninsentive to take responsible action for oneself and greater good but the point is how does one find meaning once again Dr. Nonit said finding meaning in life is very personal it can be through an awareness of what can be done and I think today our guest actually showed how they used art to be able to find meaning we have poems we have songs and I'm sure there are other frontliners using other forms of art another way of finding meaning sharing a story we have five stories from Dr. Nonit Ronco and one thing that we probably are overlooking Dr. Nonit said experience, beauty and nature he actually urged us to watch the sunset today and at the end he said smell the flowers and the last one he said of finding meaning can be in finding ways of expression of kindness and compassion at the end of the day he goes back to the Filipino culture why are we why are we resilient and he looks as the Filipino culture as a reservoir for resilience and meaning making and he sides a couple of things he looks at faith, spirituality the need for psychosocial processing the sense of community community and volunteerism he spoke of the Bayanihan and the communal practice right now a sense of self for others a sense of family so in others we as a Filipino community actually can find ways of rising above the challenge and because it is the resilience of the Filipino and he ends by saying that this is the time to pause, linger and pray more our first reactor is Dr. Jonas a COVID survivor who lost his parents the past year to COVID and as a doctor he was helpless it was painful when he could not even hug his parents when they passed away but how did he survive how did he bounce back and reflecting now he said that these were the things that helped him move on number one is gratitude find the people that you want to thank second, he said the recognition that he has another mission in PGH and third, he said remembering what his parents would have told him if they were still alive and that is to continue to serve our second reactor is R. D. Lopez who is a parent of a doctor a young frontliner at the hospital every day and R. D. as a parent experience the feeling of helplessness frustration depression and anxiety every time his doctor child would leave the house now his outlook was to use his talent his composition is the signature song that ends every webinar episode I will hold the line he says it resonates the feelings of the frontliners so that the enemy does not cross the line in this case it is the COVID virus R. D. said that frontliners are humans too it is sad this because they also miss their loved ones and that is the story of his song now in enclosing allow me just to pick a few words from our guest today from president conception he said makakabangon tayo ulit sa crisis na ito from secretary duke information is a weapon thank you TV UP from dr. nonet from dr. nonet again he said bossa little linger a little and pray more and maybe today let's all watch the sunset and smell the flowers from dr. Jonas ang pananang palataya anang papalaka sa akin sana sa ating lahat ituloy ang laban wag bibitiyo from R. D. frontliners and their loved ones are humans you let us spread the stories for inspiration from secretary duke we will persevere and we will get through this together this anniversary episode this anniversary webinar episode reminds all of us that in the midst of fear anger, depression, frustration we must remain optimistic there is hope if we hold the lines together magandangha po sa inyong lahat and back to you Susie thank you thank you very much Menchik Padilla the Chancellor of UP Manilas excellent summary of a bit I would say a very a very powerful testimony from all of our all of our speakers today and I hope that this webinar will re-energize you will remind you that we have a purpose and that there is meaning to everything that we are doing no matter how hard it is so next week we start our fifth season at abangin nipo magandang tapik natin we are going to talk about home care paano bang alagaan ang may COVID sa bahay alam kung marami sa inyo ang talagang kinihiling itong itong topic nato kasi sa daming anang nagkahan COVID ngayon marami naman pwede alagaan sa bahay abangan nyo and please we are going to announce it and please invite your friends, your family to listen in paano bang magalaga ng may COVID sa tahanan inyong tapik po natin so ngayon, bago po tayo magtapos nice po natin salamatan yung mga nasalikod po ng production ng stop COVID deaths webinar and we would like to ask all of our production team to please open open your cameras para makita po kaya ng audience, makita kayo na ito po ang mga kasama po natin hindi lang twin bear nest buong linggo, magkakasama po kami anyan Raymond over the weekend Dr. Suzy over the weekend para ihatin sa inyo ang kalaman at ang karanasan at ang mga kwento na nagbibigay sa atin ang kawalogan, these things that give us meaning so kung pwede kayo magpalakpaksa chat box, palakpaksa palakpaksa po natin atin production team na ang stop COVID deaths over to you Raymond thank you thank you po ulep for the very hardworking team, production team behind this well, naka one year na po tayo na webinar series and we are really looking forward na magpatulay-tulay pa rin po tayo na makiisa at mag share ng ating mga learnings po each and every week gaya po na nang sabi ni Dr. Suzy I think next week marks our a new season na po and we will be talking about really how do we take care of our COVID-19 patients if you have any symptoms of that are similar to COVID-19 how do you take care of that at home merong po mga leaflets mga guides, magabay mga resource materials na nadevelop so hopefully we will get more inputs and insights po from the private sector and also from the government po. Thank you also to our dear Chancellor at UP Manila for that insightful and inspiring closing synthesis po that's really we almost take it for granted that Chancellor Padilla delivered all of these excellent closing remarks pero it's really part and parcel of the quality output that we deliver or at least aim to deliver each and every week magkita kita po tayo ulit next week, Friday from 12 noon to 2pm, it's a date together we can stop COVID-19 deaths so keep safe, keep healthy and see you online I know you long for home but I am here you're not alone I'll stay with you until the coast is clear the other's pain before my fears the other's lives before my tears but right behind the mask I look into myself and ask do I have strength to carry on my God our Lord must this go on keep you here to keep me strong I'm here to hold the line I'll keep my word until my time is named to realize it's fine to be afraid just hold on to the word he gave this time we'll come to pass because this salvation makes a last you'll carry you to see the break of day the other's pain before my fears the other's lives before my tears but right behind the mask I look into myself and ask do I have strength to carry on my God our Lord must this go on I need you here to keep me strong I'm here to hold the line I'll keep my word until my time is named to realize my fears the other's lives before my tears but right behind the mask I look into myself and ask do I have strength to carry on but if you're here to keep me strong I'm here to hold the line I'll keep my word until my time is named to realize it's fine to be afraid just hold on to the word he gave