MANILA,
March 10 (PNA) -- Caloocan Mayor Enrico “Recom” Echiverri announced that
the city health office will be giving free anti-measles vaccines to
children particularly those who are between nine months and five years
old.
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Binay orders intensified anti-measles drive
MANILA,
March 8(PNA) - Acting on orders from Makati Mayor Jejomar C. Binay, the
Makati Health Department (MHD) has deployed teams of doctors, nurses
and barangay health workers to conduct home visits and door-to-door
measles vaccination following reports of measles cases in some
barangays.
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Dialysis and MRI treatments for indigent residents of Manila
MANILA,
March 8 (PNA) -- Indigent residents of Manila in need of costly dialysis
treatment and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) need not worry anymore.
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Construction of Bacolod City’s P3.2-M eye center kicks off
BACOLOD
CITY, March 7 (PNA) – The construction of the two-storey Bacolod Eye
Center here, which is being undertaken by the City Engineer’s Office
(CE), has kicked off.
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Most DOH hospitals fully compliant with total mercury phaseout
MANILA,
March 7 (PNA) -- The Department of Health (DOH) has reported that 16 out
of the 20 DOH-retained hospitals in Metro Manila have fully complied
with the directive on phasing out the use in the health care system of
all apparatuses or devices that contain mercury.
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Puerto Princesa starts constructing P25-M hospital waste treatment plant
PUERTO
PRINCESA CITY, Mar. 5 (PNA) – Puerto Princesa City mayor Edward Hagedorn
and Julito Pugoy, president of Cebu-based Pollution Abatement Systems
Specialist Inc. (PASSI) led the groundbreaking ceremony for a medical
waste treatment plant on a 1,000 square-meter lot near the Sanitary
Landfill in Bgy. Sta. Lourdes, this city.
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Asia-Pacific governments must spend more on health, WHO asserts
MANILA,
March 5 (PNA) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) has asserted that
governments in the Asia-Pacific are not spending enough on health,
adding that they do so “in order to cut out-of-pocket health-care costs
for the poor and vulnerable.”
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Provincial health office warns public to be conscious of their water and food intake
ILOILO
CITY, March 5 (PNA) -– The public has been warned to be cautious of
their water and food intake to prevent heat-related diseases spawned by
long summer due to the El Niño phenomenon.
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Negros Oriental reports gains on Formula Health 1 program
DUMAGUETE
CITY, Feb. 27 (PNA) -- Negros Oriental has posted a 70-percent
accomplishment of the Formula 1 for Health program of the Department of
Health (DOH) that is funded by the European Commission (EC).
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DOH bares new batch of discounted essential medicines
MANILA, Feb. 27 (PNA) –-
The Department of Health (DOH) on Friday announced that it has approved
the second batch of essential medicines that will be sold half the
original prices under the government’s Maximum Drug Retail Price (MDARP)
program.
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