chief nurse and clinical instructor in one of the biggest hospitals in Manila. Nearly all of his nursing students want to leave the country, because in the privatised health sector of the Philippines they can’t earn enough money to feed their family. Delfin would like to treat all patients equally, but he can only treat those who can afford to pay. “Privatisation aggravates the access of poor people to the health service. They have to pay for everything”, he states, “Because of our debt in the World Bank we have to bear the burden of a bad health services.”