Paying Forward | Samuel Ang | TEDxXavierSchool

Early Life and Career

• The speaker was born in the 1950s into a large family in Xiamen, China. (4m0s)
• The speaker is the director of the Chinese General Hospital, a 130-year-old institution in Manila, Philippines. (11m39s)

Healthcare in the Philippines

• Robert Frost wrote that people are always faced with choices in life, and it is impossible to know at the time whether the choice was correct. (2m13s)
• In 2015, a majority of the population in the Philippines had PhilHealth coverage. (14m18s)
• The average salary for government doctors in the Philippines has increased to around 100,000 pesos. (16m44s)
• The Philippines' Department of Health has increased funding and improved facilities in government hospitals. (17m4s)