Posts Tagged ‘Health’
100 NGOs ask Noynoy: Adopt pro-poor agenda
MANILA, PhilippinesSome 100 non-government organizations from all over the country under the umbrella network of Kampanya para sa Makataong Pamumuhay (KAMP or Dignified Life for All Campaign) are asking incoming President Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III to adopt their pro-poor agenda. The agenda, which will be presented to the public and key legislators and possible Cabinet secretaries on Tuesday, June 22, in Sulo Hotel, seeks to prioritize people’s rights to work, food, and essential services like housing and health. ‘The start of this administration is filled with hope.
DOH calls conference to halt advance of HIV/AIDS in RP
MANILA, PhilippinesHealth Secretary Esperanza Cabral is calling for a “national coordinated response” to prevent the further spread of HIV-AIDS in the country and is organizing a national conference for this purpose next Monday. “Everyone should be involved in addressing the HIV-AIDS epidemic,” said a DOH report furnished the Inquirer.
DoH wants HIV/AIDS subject in school curricula
MANILA, Philippines To intensify the fight against HIV and AIDS in the country, the Department of Health (DoH) urged that information on the modes of transmission, prevention and control of the disease be integrated in the curricula in all schools nationwide. ‘Education is a potent weapon in combating HIV and AIDS, hence the integration in school curricula is vital,’ Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral stressed
PhilHealth execs face poll charges
MANILA, PhilippinesThe president and chief operating officer of Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) and three other top executives of the state-run firm face possible jail terms after violating an election law, according to the Commission on Elections (Comelec). The Comelec’s law department, citing a Supreme Court decision, ruled the PhilHealth officials violated the Omnibus Election Code with the recent reshuffle of 26 agency officials
4 Philhealth execs in trouble for reshuffle during Comelec ban
MANILA, Philippines — The president and chief operating officer of Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (Philhealth) and three other top executives of the state-run firm are in big trouble. The Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) law department, citing a Supreme Court decision, ruled that the Philhealth officials violated the Omnibus Election Code with the recent reshuffle of at least 26 executives of the agency
DoH eyes nationwide vaccination against measles
MANILA, Philippines The Department of Health (DoH) is planning to conduct a nationwide anti-measles vaccination of children from six months up to six years old, an official said Thursday. Doctor Eric Tayag, National Epidemiology Center (NEC) director, said the DoH would make the announcement ‘very soon.’ Between January 1 and February 27, four children between six months and one year old from Tondo in Manila and one two-year-old boy from Quiapo died from measles due to lack of…
Philippines HIV cases spike to record in January
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines diagnosed 143 people with HIV in January — a national high — and the country's health secretary said on Thursday she would seek more public funds to distribute condoms among high-risk groups. The number of people diagnosed with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is the highest reported since the disease first surfaced in the country in 1984, said…
DoH chief snubs Church on condoms issue
MANILA, PhilippinesWho’s afraid of the Catholic Church? Not the Department of Health (DoH) which, despite strong opposition from the Church, has declared that it would continue giving away condoms to ‘people who need them.’ The condom distribution program is one of the ‘very many things that, if we actually do them, is going to reduce remarkably the spread of HIV-AIDS in the Philippines,’ Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral told the Inquirer
DOH warns about health risks during dry spell
MANILA, PhilippinesThis summer, the public should watch out for a number of ‘potential health risks’ brought about by the onset of the dry spell caused by the El Niño phenomenon, the Department of Health (DoH) said on Tuesday. In a joint advisory, the DoH National Center for Health Promotion and the National Center for Disease Prevention and Control warned against diseases like diarrhea,…
What you eat affects your brainexperts
MANILA, Philippines–If you are what you eat, then it necessarily follows that your brain is what you eat, as well.
Release 43 nabbed health workersfamily
MANILA, PhilippinesThe relatives of the 43 health workers that the military and police arrested on suspicion of being members of the New People’s Army have asked the…
Solon hits Church double standard
MANILA, PhilippinesThe Catholic Church in the Philippines is practicing a double standard when it tells the people to choose the country’s next leaders by following their conscience, but at the same time it tells them not to vote for those candidates that support the reproductive health (RH) bill, Akbayan party-list Rep. Walden Bello said. ‘On the one hand, [the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines] has said vote according to…
3 killed by firecrackers in New Year revelry, 807 others injured
MANILA, PhilippinesContrary to the initial assessment, firecracker-related casualties for this year’s New Year revelry was higher than the previous year with at least three people killed and more than 800 others injured by firecrackers. Latest data received by the Department of Health from sentinel hospitals as of 6 a.m. Jan.
1 dead, many injured in Filipino New Year revelry
MANILA, Philippines: Hundreds of Filipinos were injured by firecrackers and celebratory gunfire despite a government scare campaign in which doctors displayed surgical saws on TV to warn New Year revelers what awaited them if they were hurt by fireworks, officials said Thursday.
