ZAMBOANGA CITY — President Rodrigo Duterte turned passionate on Saturday as he read a letter gave over by one of 18 injured troopers he went to at the Camp Navarro General Hospital inside the Western Mindanao Command central command here.
It was not clear what the letter said, but rather the President was obviously holding his tears as he was understanding it.
The letter was composed by one of the offspring of Pfc. Charlie Shine Carinal of the 68th Infantry Battalion, who was injured in Sumisip, Basilan on Friday amid operations against the Abu Sayyaf.
In a meeting with correspondents taking after his visit to the injured warriors, Duterte encouraged the Filipino individuals to "deal with our officers."
"They give their lives to this republic," Duterte said. "We should facilitate their sufferings and my work here is to visit them, give them some money and fresh out of the plastic new mobile phones."
It was the President's fifth visit here. As in his past visits, he additionally stuck decorations to injured fighters and gave money related help to the groups of three troopers slaughtered in against Abu Sayyaf operations, which likewise occurred in Sulu.
The injured troopers got an aggregate of P110,000 in money related help.
Col. Restituto Padilla, the representative of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), said each of the surviving groups of killed troopers got over P500,000 in money related help.
The sum incorporate the help of P200,000 from the AFP, alongside P80,000 in memorial service help.
The President, he said, gave P250,000 from the Presidential Social Fund.
"This is to help groups of our legends," Padilla said. "Over all, in the event that you total it up, the sum they are getting would be over P500,000 both from the units and in addition from the president."
Padilla said Duterte was additionally investigating the measure of help that both injured and killed warriors get.
"The President is upholding for an expansion in the measure of the money related help being given to killed or injured warriors," he said. /ATM
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