Four specialty hospitals put up by government in Quezon City will suffer nearly P1 billion total cuts in their 2022 budget amid the continued onslaught of the COVID-19. Hospital scene COVID-19 QC Second District Rep. Precious Hipolito Castelo lamented the government decision to slash the 2022...
A total of 154 Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) nurses were deployed in the country’s 27 private hospitals to augment the shortage in hospital personnel as more health workers have been getting infected by the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). DILG Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya explained...
Senator Francis Pangilinan has questioned the supposed reduction of funds for government hospitals under the P4.5-trillion 2022 proposed national budget. Senator Francis 'Kiko' Pangilinan (Senate of the Philippines) "Nasa pandemya tayo. Mag-iisang buwan na rin tayong nasa mga 20,000 ang new cases...
Pateros contact tracers (DILG Pateros) The Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines, Inc. (PHAPi) urged the national government to improve its contact tracing efforts to break the chain of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) transmission. PHAPi President Dr. Jose Rene De Grano said that the...
The capacity of Justice Jose Abad Santos General Hospital (JJASGH), one of Manila’s district hospitals, reached critical level on Monday night (Sept. 13). (MANILA.GOV.PH) In an advisory, the hospital said its patients have outnumbered its beds, while its emergency room and holding tents are...
Doctors in some private hospitals have already fallen ill due to the overwhelming number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients, the Philippine College of Physicians (PCP) said Tuesday, Sept. 7. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) "Talagang napapagod na po 'yung mga doktor natin dahil sa araw araw na...
The Manila City government will build its 7th hospital in Baseco Compound to cater to more than 100,000 residents. "Magtatayo tayo ng ikapitong ospital, yung Baseco, lalagyan ko na ng ospital. Lalagyan natin sila ng pabahay. We will continue to build new houses, tapos lalagyan natin ng mga space...
The Philippine College of Physicians (PCP) on Sunday, Aug. 29 said that emergency rooms in some hospitals in the country are now operating more than 100 percent as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases continue to rise. (Photo by PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU / AFP / FILE PHOTO) "Hindi na kami masyadong...
Vice President Leni Robredo bemoaned the lack of available hospital beds for COVID-19 patients as her Bayanihan E-Konsulta team struggles to find vacant beds amid the surge of cases in the country, particularly in the National Capital Region Plus (NCR Plus) bubble. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) Robredo...
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has vowed to pay 60 percent of the in-process claims of its partner hospitals by next week through its Debit-Credit Payment Method (DCPM). (HoR) “Next week babayaran it (we will pay), doon pa rin sa (through the) DCPM, 60 percent kung mag...
Concerned that his agency will again be called out by the Commission on Audit (COA), Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Wednesday, August 25, insisted the need for a law that would authorize the grant of special risk allowances (SRA) to health care workers who are not catering to COVID-19...
The enforcement of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) new circular on the temporary suspension of hospital payments claims that are under investigation would mean hospitals would suffer, a hospital group said Wednesday, Aug. 25. (Photo from Pixabay) Private Hospitals...
