A total of 8,171 dengue cases nationwide from July 6 to July 19, the Department of Health (DOH) reported Saturday, August 9. The figure, according to the agency, is 33 percent lower than the 12,166 cases reported from June 22 to July 5. Despite this, the health department said the public should...
To speed up treatment for people exposed to floodwaters, the Department of Health (DOH) has opened Leptospirosis Fast Lanes in 19 DOH hospitals. “Para sa mas mabilis na konsultasyon at gamutan ng mga nalubog sa baha, nagbukas ang Department of Health ng Leptospirosis Fast Lanes sa piling DOH...
To ensure every child is protected and healthy, some elementary students received Measles-Rubella (MR), Tetanus-Diphtheria (Td), and Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines during a school-based immunization program held at Senate President Neptali A. Gonzales Integrated School in Mandaluyong City on...
The Department of Health (DOH) has recorded 3,037 cases of leptospirosis nationwide from January 1 to July 19, with more than a third of the infections reported shortly after the start of the rainy season. Of the total cases, the agency said 1,114 were recorded after June 8, just a week after the...
In a significant step toward digital health transformation, the Department of Health (DOH), in partnership with UNICEF and with funding support from the Government of Japan, officially launched DigiVacc—a digital immunization platform designed to modernize how vaccination records are managed,...
Healthcare-related expenses remain a major cause of debt and poverty among Filipinos. As part of the government’s push for universal healthcare, the Department of Health (DOH) implements the “zero balance billing” policy—a program that aims to provide completely free hospitalization for...
Three top officials of the Department of Health (DOH), including the agency’s well-known Covid-19 pandemic spokesperson, are no longer part of its Executive Committee (Execom), based on updates made to the department’s official website. Removed from the current Execom list are Undersecretaries...
President Marcos has declared that patients admitted in Department of Health (DOH) hospitals will no longer have to pay for their bills. "Ito po – itinuloy na po natin ang zero balance billing. Libre po (Here it is – we have continued the zero balance billing. It’s free)," Marcos...
Senator Erwin Tulfo has filed a bill that seeks to increase the compensation given to victims of wrongful detention and imprisonment from P1,000 to P10,000 through the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Board of Claims. The proposed measure also increases the maximum amount of compensation that the...
Senator Erwin Tulfo on Sunday, July 13 urged the Department of Health (DOH) to explain why guarantee letters (GLs) given to indigent patients are being denied by some hospitals, both public and private. According to Tulfo, some patients seeking assistance from his office alleged that they were...
BACOLOD CITY – The Department of Health-Negros Island Region-Center for Health Development (DOH-NIR-CHD) inaugurated on Tuesday, July 8, the first DOH wellness clinic in the Visayas in a popular mall here. Dr. Mary Ann Palermo-Maestral, Undersecretary of Health for the UHC Health Services...
The Department of Education (DepEd) on Tuesday, July 8, announced that it is scaling up the Healthy Learning Institutions (HLI) program to transform public schools into health-promoting campuses nationwide. From remote mountain barangays to crowded urban classrooms, over 1,500 public schools have...
