DOH chief urges newly licensed doctors to join gov’t service

Ruth Abbey Gita-Carlos 10/19/2024

MANILA – Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Teodoro Herbosa on Saturday enjoined 3,845 newly licensed physicians to join government service. The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced that 58 percent of 6,600 examinees passed the Physician Licensure Examination…

DOH chief unaware of pyramiding schemes, gifts to doctors

Maila Ager 04/30/2024

MANILA, Philippines — No less than the country’s health chief had no knowledge of the alleged multi-level marketing (MLM) schemes in the medical industry until the issue was raised before the Senate. Facing the Senate probe on…

Ejercito files reso calling for probe into alleged doctor – pharma collusion

Charie Abarca 04/26/2024

MANILA, Philippines — Senator JV Ejercito has filed a resolution calling for an investigation into the alleged connivance of some physicians and pharmaceutical companies in prescribing medicine. “To maintain the honor and integrity of the medical profession,…

Senate to investigate alleged pharma-doc ‘pyramiding scheme’

04/25/2024

Whistleblowers will detail the alleged ‘pyramiding scheme’ involving doctors and a pharmaceutical firm at the Senate hearing scheduled for next week. This was revealed by Senator Joseph Victor Ejercito on Wednesday. Ejercito, chairman of the Senate Committee…

Mandaue City Health Office plans to hire more health professionals

Mary Rose Sagarino 01/31/2024

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – The Mandaue City Health Office (MCHO) is planning to hire additional doctors, nurses and midwives who will especially be deployed in health centers and clinics in the 27 barangays here. Dr. Debra Maria…

Kris Aquino thankful as doctors found treatments that can help ‘get her health back’

Anne Pasajol 04/15/2023

Kris Aquino made a gratitude post dedicated to her doctors as well as to those praying for her health, revealing that her doctors have finally found treatments suited for her despite the many limitations caused by her…

Forced retreat

Michael L. Tan - @inquirerdotnet 12/06/2022

It was my first, and I hope the last, time to get COVID, more than two years into the pandemic. I was going to title my column “To hell and back” but no, bad as it was,…

We don’t play God

Ella Mae Inoferio Masamayor - @inquirerdotnet 02/06/2022

Details have been altered to protect patient identities.“’Tay, ’di ba sabi mo lalaban ka? ’Di ba sabi mo gagaling tayo?” I press the phone even closer to my patient’s ear. His family was on the other line,…

Doctors skip hospital duty due to unpaid benefits

Maricar Cinco 09/07/2021

MANILA, Philippines — The delayed release of benefits and the strain of being at the front line of the fight against COVID-19 amid a record-breaking surge in cases due to the Delta variant are affecting not just…

Bañacia thanks Lapu City Council for approving P43M for city’s COVID-19 response

Futch Anthony Inso 08/13/2021

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Lapu-Lapu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO) head Nagiel Bañacia has expressed gratitude to the members of the city council after they approved the P43,984,569 budget intended for the city’s Coronavirus…

Cebu City Health needs supplemental approved to hire more doctors, nurses

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/04/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Health Department (CHD) is banking on the approval of the P206 million budget they have proposed to the City Council’s committee on budget and finance to be able to hire…

Tumulak: Manpower not enough for planned additional vaccination sites in Cebu City

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/02/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The lack of doctors and nurses is a major concern for the additional vaccination sites that Cebu City plans to open for the forthcoming mass vaccination against the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Councilor…

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