(Eagle News) — Change the procedure, (or) I will change you.
President Rodrigo Duterte had this to say to Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial, after he learnt equipment that had been purchased a year ago for the treatment of soldiers at a military hospital had not been delivered.
He was referring to a state of the art Xray machine and MRI machine that he said had been bought but had not been delivered to the AFP Hospital.
“Change the procedure because I will change you,” Duterte said in his second State of the Nation Address, in which he deviated from the normal practice of trumpeting the accomplishments of the administration.
Ubial nodded in between laughs.
Duterte said he would not be surprised if the soldiers mounted a coup d’etat because they could not get the proper treatment because of lack of equipment in the hospital.