Soiled and substandard face shields are allegedly being repacked and supplied by Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation to the Department of Health (DOH) for use of health workers. (Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) At the ninth hearing of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee Friday, September...
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has noted an increasing trend in the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) this year reaching to at least 70,000 land-based and sea-based workers per month. (FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) POEA Administrator Bernard Olalia said the...
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque has credited the country’s below average case fatality rate for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to the efforts of local frontline healthcare workers (HCWs). Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque speaks during a virtual press briefing Tuesday, Sept. 21,...
Contact tracers hired under DILG-Pateros and DOLE-TUPAD-PESO assist the Pateros Rescue in transporting COVID-19 patients to an isolation center. (DILG Pateros) The Healthcare Professionals Alliance Against COVID-19 (HPAAC) expressed concern over the government's new community quarantine scheme in...
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque has walked back on his statement Monday, Sept. 13 wherein he claimed that the government had approved a proposal to give healthcare workers "booster" shots against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque (File photo/ Screenshot...
Healthcare workers (HCWs) will be the first ones to be given a booster shot for an added protection against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Sec. Carlito Galvez Jr. (Screenshot from RTVM livestream) Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. said Monday, Sept. 13, that the administration of booster shots...
DOH/MB The Department of Health (DOH) said that there were no "double payments" to the procurement service of the Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM) for the purchase of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers. "In response to the allegations that the Department of Health paid...
Medicines (File Photo) The Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Association of the Philippines (PHAP) said it is currently working to “secure” more supplies of medicines that are being used in treating the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). “As we have done since the beginning of the pandemic, PHAP and...
(Jansen Romero / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) As the Philippines scrambles again to suppress the rise in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, some health workers have decided to quit their jobs because of the non-payment of their benefits and exhaustion due to the worsening COVID-19 situation in...
(Photo by: Juan Carlo de Vela) mbnewspictures / mbnewspix If there’s anything worth commending during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s the heroism and selflessness of the Filipino healthcare workers in the country and abroad who are risking their own lives to keep COVID-19 cases from getting out of...
(Jansen Romero / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) The Department of Health (DOH) said that more than P14 billion have already been released for the provision of benefits for healthcare workers who are attending to those afflicted with coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The DOH said that P14.3 billion...
"Enough is enough." Healthcare workers staged a protest action outside the Department of Health (DOH) Central Office in Manila on Wednesday, Sept. 1, to press them to release their long delayed benefits. Clad in their personal protective equipment while holding placards and empty cans, healthcare...
