The occupancy rates of hospitals and isolation facilities in Metro Manila have been improving following the continued decline in the number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the region. One Hospital Command Center This was according to Dr. Marylaine Padlan of the government’s One Hospital...
Department of Health Secretary Francisco Duque III (PCOO) Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III has urged the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to immediately settle the unpaid claims of various hospitals. Duque said that the state-health insurer should...
Vice presidential candidate Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Tuesday urged the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to make reimbursement claims faster and easier for private hospitals. Go, who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, made the call following reports that some private...
Senator Risa Hontiveros has joined other lawmakers in prodding the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to settle the reimbursement claims of private hospitals as some of them threatened to cut ties with the health state insurer. Hontiveros said it is necessary for private hospitals to...
Senator Sonny Angara has urged the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to fast track the reimbursment claims of private hospitals, saying the country could not afford to have its healthcare system plunging into another crisis. Angara made the call after some private hospitals in Metro...
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte on Thursday, Oct. 28, announced that the city government-owned Rosario Maclang Bautista General Hospital (RMBGH) now offers enhanced medical services. RMBGH is a 107-bed capacity hospital that provides medical care to residents of Quezon City. The Department of Health...
The recruitment of participants for the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Solidarity Vaccines Trial (SVT) has been piloted in three hospitals in Metro Manila, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) DOST Undersecretary for Research and Development...
Barangay officials are at the receiving end of numerous complaints of neglect and inaction over their supposed failure to lend their ambulances to their distressed constituents prompting calls for the intervention of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) on the matter. Feeling...
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...
