Looking For A Bed For Daddy Lolo: Inside The Philippines' COVID Crisis
NPRLooking For A Bed For Daddy Lolo: Inside The Philippines' COVID Crisis Enlarge this image toggle caption Jan Daniel Belmonte Jan Daniel Belmonte Eighty-year-old Nardo Samson, a retired policeman, lay dying in the back of a makeshift ambulance. Sponsor Message Trying to save 'Daddy Lolo' Samson's grandson Jan Daniel Belmonte told NPR his grandfather's health took a worrying turn after Samson's entire household in Valenzuela City in northern Metro Manila was diagnosed with the coronavirus in late March. Sponsor Message Samson's daughter, who was at her father's side in the rudimentary ambulance, provided the family with hourly updates that Belmonte says doubled as therapy. Coping with COVID's aftereffects Dr. Convocar insists that the country must stop "romanticizing" Filipino "resilience" as a means to overcome a pandemic that has devastated the economy, shuttered schools and killed more than 18,000 people in the Philippines. Sponsor Message By sad coincidence, Jan Daniel Belmonte's grandmother Estelita Samson found a bed just days after her husband Nardo Samson died from the lack of one.
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