MANILA, Philippines — A known supporter of former president Rodrigo Duterte was suspended for six months by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) Board of Medicine after she was found guilty of violating the Revised Code of Ethics of the Medical Profession.
The PRC also suspended Lorraine Badoy's certificate of registration for six months, effective upon finality.
According to a Facebook statement by the Movement Against Disinformation (MAD) on Saturday, the cases against Badoy, a doctor, came from her public statements linking the Alliance of Health Workers (AHW), its members, and community physician Dr. Ma. Natividad Castro to the Communist Party of the Philippines, the New People’s Army and the National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF).
As early as 2022, the AHW requested for the revocation of Badoy’s medical license for alleged red-tagging, with 17 doctors seeking her suspension because of her “deeply unprofessional” remarks.
Badoy was the former spokesman of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) under the Duterte administration.
