Baguio Council Seeks Specific Indigenous Identities in Health Records
The Baguio City Council urged the City Health Services Office to replace the general term "Igorot" with specific ethnolinguistic classifications in official forms and patient records, aiming for more accurate representation of indigenous peoples in the Cordillera.
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