MEDMISSION The SugKusog Hub rehabilitation outreach in Cebu assessed and treated for free 64 patients who otherwise had little or no access to specialized care. —CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
MANILA, Philippines — In a remote barangay in Cebu, a mother ran out of ways to help her 16-year-old son.
He had tantrums that frightened her. He hurt himself. Sometimes he hurt the people around him. She knew he needed therapy—the kind of specialized, consistent rehabilitation care that could teach him to regulate, to communicate, to live.
But to many less-fortunate families in the Philippines, rehabilitation can feel like a privilege, not a right. Only a fraction of licensed physical therapists work in public health. Most barangays have no rehab facility at all. For families like hers, the arithmetic can be severely unkind: therapy exists, but not for them.
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