For TMC South Luzon, the hospital wins two awards at the Healthcare Asia Awards 2021 The Medical City 2020 was the year of the frontliners. The world witnessed how hospitals grappled with dwindling resources, increasing morbidity and mortality, and a decimated healthcare workforce as the virus...
The Department of Health (DOH) has observed an increase in the number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in some regions across the country, with healthcare utilization rate in these areas now almost at “high risk” level. DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire Health Undersecretary...
The government is set to release guidelines for the vaccination of family members of healthcare workers, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Saturday, May 29. (File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) “Itong mga kamag-anak ng healthcare workers kailangan pa po natin makapag release ng guidelines para...
Senator Nancy Binay is proposing to include registered dentists and licensed medical technologists as among the medical personnel authorized to administer COVID-19 vaccines. (JUAN CARLO DE VELA / MANILA BULLETIN) Binay filed Senate Bill No. 2212 on Tuesday, May 18, as she sought to amend the...
What's the need for a mega vaccination facility if local government units (LGUs) are already carrying out high volume inoculations against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)? Healthcare Without Harm Southeast Asia Executive Director Ramon San Pascual (Screengrab from Facebook Live) This was...
Medical frontliners in the City of Manila have started getting the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at the Sta. Ana Hospital on Thursday, May 13. ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN In a statement, the local government said that 210 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been deployed to...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Friday told the Department of Health (DOH) to explain the year-long delay of hazard pay for healthcare workers and the continuously deteriorating work environment after more than a year into the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Hontiveros said she fully supports the call...
A legacy of over 60 years, Bohol St. Jude General Hospital will soon transform to a healing center, whose new mission is ‘to heal the world one being at a time, in body, mind, and spirit By Mary Therese Nazareno-Arreza M.D. INTO THE FUTURE Bohol St. Jude General Hospital (BSJGH) is all set for...
The healthcare utilization rate (HCUR) in the National Capital Region (NCR) is now at 57 percent, an official of the Department of Health (DOH) said Monday, May 3. A medical worker walks on the aisle of the new isolation facility at the Eva Macapagal Terminal in Port Area, Manila on April 26, 2021,...
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III assured the public Saturday, May 1, that all acts of discrimination and all forms of violence against healthcare workers (HCWs) will not go unpunished. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III (PCOO/Manila Bulletin File Photo) He said those who discriminate,...
Senator Pia Cayetano said it is high-time the government prioritizes investments in infrastructure for healthcare facilities to enable the Philippines cope with health emergency crisis like the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Cayetano, during the Senate Committee on Health and...
Two senators are seeking further probe into the status of the government’s school-based Barangay Health Stations (BHS) project, which was stalled due to an ongoing litigation. Senator Nancy Binay raised the issue during the Senate Committee on Health and Demography’s virtual hearing on the...
