PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan – Health officials in this province on Thursday sounded the alarm over a surge in dengue cases numbering 3,274 from January to June in various municipalities. In an interview, Dr. Faye Erika Labrador, chief of the Provinc…
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) provided more than PHP354 million worth of medical assistance to at least 50,000 Filipinos through its Medical Assistance Program (MAP) in the second quarter of 2023. In a statement on Wednesday, PCSO C…
The healthcare commission of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) is pushing for the continued propagation of vaccine confidence in every community. Fr. Dan Cancino, executive secretary of the CBCP-Episcopal Commission on Health …
The country’s daily average of new coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases decreased by 20 percent from June 25 to July 2, the Department of Health (DOH) reported Monday. In its latest case bulletin, the agency recorded 392 daily infections, a decli…
A third super health center (SHC), which will provide more than basic health services, will soon rise in Purok 2, Barangay Guihing here. The SHC, a medium-type polyclinic and bigger than a rural health center, aims to decongest hospitals in the provin…
City health officials have sounded the warning bells over rising cases of dengue here amid the onset of the rainy season. As of Tuesday’s data from the City Health Office (CHO), there have been 954 dengue cases overall this year. Dengue virus is trans…
Four communist New People’s Army (NPA) rebels surrendered to authorities five days after an encounter in Barangay Anticala here that killed five insurgents and seizure of 16 high-powered firearms. The surrenderers turned themselves in to the Philippin…
The Belgian government announced on Monday that it will destroy nearly six million doses of Covid-19 vaccines as they are outdated, local media reported. ‘Several studies show that the vaccines adapted to BA.4/5 subvariants are significantly more effe…
The measles-rubella and oral polio vaccine supplemental immunization activity (MR-OPV SIA) of the Department of Health (DOH) provided protection to 161,566 target children in 42 municipalities and one component city at the end of the extended activity…
The province of Ilocos Norte has begun rolling out the Pfizer bivalent vaccine against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). On Tuesday, Dr. Maria Lourdes Otayza, medical chief of the government-run Mariano Marcos Memorial Hospital and Medical Cent…