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Mar Roxas likens Philippines to sick patient

Rosette Adel - Philstar.com
November 9, 2015 | 4:43am

MANILA, Philippines - Former Interior Secretary and presidential candidate Manuel "Mar" Roxas II on Monday compared the Philippines to a sick patient.

During the roundtable discussion with reporters of STAR, Roxas likened the previous state of the Philippines to a patient in an emergency room while its current state and progress may be compared to a patient moved to an Intensive Care Unit moving to a regular room. 

Watch how Roxas analogized Philippine progress to a sick patient:

Text by Rosette Adel; Video by Efigenio Toledo IV

COMPARED

EFIGENIO TOLEDO

FORMER INTERIOR SECRETARY

IFRAME

INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

MANUEL

PATIENT

PHILIPPINES

QUOT

ROSETTE ADEL

ROXAS
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