To strengthen sexual health education and prevent the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV, and AIDS among young people, the Puerto Princesa City Health Office (CHO), through its Social Hygiene Clinic, partnered with Roots of Health (Ugat ng Kalusugan) for a three-day...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Albee Benitez on Wednesday, July 24, led the groundbreaking of the P220-million Bacolod City Health Complex in Barangay 20 here. MAYOR Albee Benitez leads the groundbreaking of the P220-million Bacolod City Health Complex in Barangay 20 on Wednesday, July 24. (Photo courtesy...
BACOLOD CITY – The City Health Office (CHO) has reported three new cases of pertussis or whooping cough here, bringing the total positive cases to six. Dr. Maria Carmela Gensoli, city health officer, said the patients are all males, aged one-year-old, one-month-old, and two-months-old. The...
BAGUIO CITY (PNA) – The Health Services Office (HSO) here is eyeing to distribute free condoms in night establishments and drum up its information campaign to curb the drastic increase in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) cases. Dr. Celiaflor Brillantes, HSO officer-in-charge and...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The City Health Office (CHO) is looking into the death of two children and the hospitalization of their sibling after reportedly eating poisonous leaves which were boiled and served by their grandmother on Monday in Barangay Maasin here. The CHO is looking into reports that the...
The Las Piñas City government said the City Health Office (CHO) offers free eye checkup and cataract surgery to eligible patients in the city. According to Mayor Imelda Aguilar said CHO’s free eye checkup and cataract surgery are part of the city’s mandate to provide aid to residents through...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The City Health Office urged Christmas carolers here to get vaccinated against Covid-19 and strictly follow the minimum public health standards. Dr. Teodulfo Joselito Retuya Jr., CHO epidemiologist, said Christmas caroling would now be allowed in this city after being...
BAGUIO CITY – The City Health Services Office (CHSO) reported a dramatic increase in Covid-19 positivity rate despite the city’s being at a low risk (level 1) status. City health officer Dr. Rowena Galpo reported that the city’s Covid-19 positivity rate leapfrogged from 18.57 to 26.24 percent...
TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan – The City Health Office (CHO) has suspended some services until August 8 after two employees tested positive for Covid-19. The City Information Office (CIO) said that the issuance of health certificates and health cards, including dental services, and issuance of PWD...
A VIAL of the Moderna vaccine and syringes. (AFP) DAGUPAN CITY – The Dagupan City Health Office (CHO) has denied an online claim that expired Moderna vaccines have been administered in a vaccination site at the Dagupan City People’s Astrodome last Tuesday. In statement, the CHO said the...
The Department of Health (DOH) commended the Las Piñas vaccination site at the Golden Acres in Talon Uno after receiving positive feedback from a resident who was properly attended to by its personnel and was given a vaccine against Covid-19. Mayor Imelda Aguilar said she received a letter from...
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Fourteen dengue patients here have died, raising fears the continuing trend of infections among youngsters and young adults might reach the epidemic threshold. Zamboanga health workers initiate advocacy on dengue prevention. (Photo via Liza Jocson) The City Health Office (CHO)...
