LISBON, Portugal -- People not immunized or having received only one dose of vaccine constitute 98 percent of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Portugal, the Portuguese General Directorate of Health (DGS) reported on Tuesday. A woman receives a dose of COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center...
Quezon City residents who tested positive for COVID-19 will no longer be allowed to undergo isolation inside their homes. This came after Mayor Joy Belmonte passed a measure requiring the city's asymptomatic and symptomatic patients to be isolated in authorized facilities only. "We deem it...
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday that "verified coronavirus patients who knowingly violate quarantine" will be criminally indicted and "dealt with to the fullest extent of the law." Bennett made the instructions during a cabinet meeting, according to a...
Ospital ng Tondo no longer has COVID-19 patients, Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso announced Tuesday (June 29). (Ospital ng Tondo / FACEBOOK / MANILA BULLETIN) Domagoso said all COVID-19 patients from Ospital ng Tondo have been transferred to the city’s field hospital in Rizal...
Word Alive FR. BEL SAN LUIS, SVD A young man who was known for his impatience once prayed, "Lord, give me patience...and I want it now!" His impatience must really be that bad! Sometimes we grow impatient with everything, even with God when we see so much evil around us. * * * The slow progress in...
The Philippine General Hospital (PGH) is expected to resume accepting patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Tuesday, May 18, after the hospital was hit by a fire over the weekend. (PGH FACEBOOK PAGE / MANILA BULLETIN) PGH director Dr. Gerardo Legaspi said they have temporarily suspended...
A randomized controlled clinical trial on the efficacy and safety of tawa-tawa (Euphorbia hirta) as an adjunctive treatment of mild to moderate coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients has started involving almost 300 patients. Tawa-tawa (Manila Bulletin File Photo) This was disclosed by Department...
The first modular hemodialysis facility at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI) in Quezon City has been completed. HEMODIALYSIS FACILITY-- The first modular hemodialysis facility at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI) in Quezon City will soon be operational following...
A coronavirus disease (COVID-19) survivor recalled Sunday, April 25, her “staycation” at the Philippine Red Cross' (PRC) Ateneo Hope 8 Isolation Facility. red cross "Actually sobrang okay po yung stay ko dun parang nagstaycation lang po ako actually. Sobrang maayos po sya, masaya naman. Kung...
Health experts have urged the immediate formation of the cancer council to implement a law to protect cancer patients. “It is very critical that the National Integrated Cancer Control Act Council has to be organized and convened. Based on the law, the council will act as a policy-making, planning...
