Department of Migrant Workers Secretary Susan Ople passes away
Department of Migrant Workers Secretary Susan Ople passes away
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00:00 President Ferdinand R. Marcus Jr., ruminating over the depth and gravity of the moment,
00:05 called it a "grape loss for all of us" on the untimely demise of one of his first appointees
00:10 to his cabinet and close ally, Department of Migrant Workers Secretary Susan Toots Ople.
00:16 Visibly affected by the unwelcome news, the president called Ople a "friend" and likened
00:21 her to her father and former Labor Secretary under Marcus Sr.'s administration.
00:26 The erstwhile and first Department of Migrant Workers chief struggled and eventually lost
00:30 her battle with breast cancer.
00:32 It's very, very sad news.
00:39 I have lost a friend.
00:40 The Philippines has lost a friend.
00:41 Secretary Toots is a special person.
00:42 With a deep compassion really for the people that she had to care for, namely the migrant
01:00 workers.
01:01 And she was very, very...
01:04 It's a big loss.
01:05 She's a great person.
01:06 For me, Secretary Toots, she very much followed in the tradition of Cablas Ople, of excellence,
01:14 of compassion.
01:15 It is a great loss for all of us.
01:20 It is a great loss for all of us who called her my friend.
01:24 It is a great loss to the Philippines for the service that we know she could still have
01:28 rendered.
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