DAVAO CITY – Former President Rodrigo R. Duterte visited pediatric cancer patients at the Cancer Institute at the Southern Philippines Medical Center here on Thursday night, Dec. 19. Duterte brought gifts and interacted with pediatric cancer patients in his annual Christmas tradition. The Hugpong...
DAVAO CITY – State-run Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) here will soon be capable of performing robotic-assisted surgeries as it plans to acquire a cutting-edge technology that can save more lives in Mindanao. SPMC chief Dr. Ricardo Audan said on Thursday that the government hospital is...
DAVAO CITY – A representative from the Department of Internal Medicine of the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) here said there is no surge in atypical or walking pneumonia within the hospital. Walking pneumonia is a lung ailment caused by mycoplasma pneumonia. It gained attention...
DAVAO CITY – Police rescued on Friday, October 13, a three-month-old baby a day after he was allegedly taken from his mother at the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) here. A WOMAN allegedly took a three-month-old baby from his mother at the Southern Philippines Medical Center in Davao...
DAVAO CITY – The intensive care unit (ICU) of the government-run Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients has been fully occupied while the utilization rate of its isolation units has reached critical level as the city grapples with new infections, a...
Recognizing that only 1,000 out of 4,000 children diagnosed with cancer receive proper care and medication, the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD) has vowed its unwavering support to the Aruga sa Batang may Cancer (ABC)...
