Many Filipino doctors and nurses have left the country in search for better jobs abroad, but those who stayed are fighting twin battles.
To get to South Upi, Maguindanao, a province in the southern Philippines, one has to travel for more than four hours on rough and war-torn roads.
It is a place teeming with poverty, a place that needs all the help it can get amid the constant neglect of people in power and harsh abuse of resources.
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