Dr. Joti Tabula is a medical doctor and poet, hailing from San Antonio, Zambales in the Philippines. He is a co-editor of the literary anthology Pagninilay: Hinga, Hingal, at Hingalo sa Panahon ng Pandemya (published in 2020), together with Doctors Alvin B. Caballes and Noel P. Pingoy. It is part of a three-volume book series launched by the Philippine General Hospital’s (PGH) Human Spirit Project: an online archive that documents the stories of the people who work in PGH, since it became one of the country’s Covid-19 referral centers and battlegrounds against the virus. Now available in e-book format, Pagninilay offers a holistic examination and perspective of the pandemic, and the third volume tells the stories of front-liners and nonfront-liners from hospitals outside of PGH and local communities.
