FORMER National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) spokesman and physician Lorraine Badoy doubled down on her claims against health workers and said she won’t appeal the six-month suspension of her medical license by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).
The suspension stemmed from Badoy’s public statements linking health workers to the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF).
She claimed this was initiated by the Alliance of Health Workers (AHW), which she alleged is a front organization of the left.
“Because, that, indeed, is what and who they are: a front of the terrorist CPP NPA NDF,” she said in a statement on Sunday.
“The Alliance of Health Workers is directly linked to the Makabayang Samahang Pangkalusugan or Masapa, an illegal underground mass organization that was designated as a terrorist organization by the Anti-Terrorism Council in January 2022,” she said.
Badoy noted that the PRC’s Board of Medicine did not declare her statements false but ruled that she lacked formal documentation from the appropriate government agencies at the time she made the remarks.
Despite this, she said she chose not to contest the ruling, saying there are “bigger battles” facing the country.
Badoy also rejected the concept of “red-tagging,” calling it an invention of the CPP-NPA-NDF to silence critics.
She accused the mainstream media of coordinating coverage of her suspension to discredit and humiliate her and to shield AHW from scrutiny.
“They have blown this up for one purpose and one purpose alone: to put back the mask of deception on the Alliance of Health Workers so they can continue to recruit doctors, nurses, medical students, etc. to be members of the terrorist organization,” she said.
“In the greater scheme of things, this is just another day in the office for those of us who dream of a CPP-free country and fight for us to get there,” she said.
