DOH plans to add palliative care to PhilHealth packages

Jerome Aning - Philippine Daily Inquirer 11/23/2024

  To help families caring for dying loved ones, the Department of Health (DOH) is considering adding palliative care to the benefit packages that Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) will soon improve. “I’d love to see a palliative…

Mandaue City Hospital unveils new operating and delivery rooms

Mary Rose Sagarino 10/18/2024

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — Mandauehanons can expect improved quality service from the Mandaue City Hospital as it opened its new delivery and operating rooms on Friday, October 18. The ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Operating Room and Delivery…

PhilHealth pays P257M to healthcare providers as boost to ‘Konsulta’ program

Dexter Cabalza 02/19/2024

The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) has disbursed over P257 million as the initial payment to primary care provider networks (PCPNs) to support the nationwide rollout of its outpatient benefits package, known as Konsulta or Konsultasyong Sulit…

Super health center to rise in Mandaue City soon

Mary Rose Sagarino 01/31/2024

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu —  Mandaue City is set to have its first super health center soon. Dr. Debra Maria Catulong, head of the Mandaue City Health Office (CHO) on Tuesday, Jan. 30, announced that the construction of…

P11.12 B allocated for specialty medical centers

Jean Mangaluz 01/15/2024

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. announced on Monday the allocation of P11.12 billion in the 2024 national budget for specialty medical centers. “Nakapagbigay tayo ng P 11.12 billion for 2024 para makapagpatayo pa…

DOH-7: 99.5 percent of COVID allowance for healthcare, non-healthcare workers disbursed

Futch Anthony Inso 10/02/2023

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu—The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) has already disbursed 99.5-percent of the P1,850,788,660.23 intended as payment of the Health Emergency Allowance (HEA)/One Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) allowance (OCA) for the healthcare/non-healthcare workers in…

Hospitals in Cebu province given 60 days to ‘shape up’

Morexette Marie B. Erram 02/01/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Shape up or ship out.  This was the instructions Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia relayed to officials of province-ran hospitals after the Capitol released the results of their three-month evaluation last Tuesday, January 31. …

San Lucas Medical: Bringing quality healthcare closer to the communities in the South

Dianne Zarina G. Savillo, Rhobie Alburo Ruaya, Rosalie O. Abatayo 07/21/2022

Cebuanos living in the south, no longer need to travel a long way just to receive the premier quality healthcare they deserve.  San Lucas Medical brings quality yet affordable health care services to South Cebu as the…

Labella assures healthcare workers anew: Cash incentives to be released soon 

Morexette Marie B. Erram 10/19/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella once again assured healthcare workers entitled to receive the city’s cash incentives that they would get them soon. Labella, in a press interview on Monday, October 19, 2020,…

AppleOne makes its mark in healthcare, acquires two hospitals

PR 08/24/2020

Cebu-based developer expands its portfolio with VCMC and USMC AppleOne Properties, Inc., a leading real estate and hotel developer in the Visayas and Mindanao regions, through its healthcare arm AppleOne Medical Group (AMG), signed into a joint…

Healthcare workers with COVID-19 climb to 127

Morexette Marie B. Erram 06/11/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The number of healthcare workers in Central Visayas with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has climbed to 127 as of June 9. In a report furnished to the media on Thursday, June 11, the…

Universal healthcare bill gets bicam nod

Inquirer.net 11/27/2018

Government charity funds to cover free health care services After conducting two hearings, the congressional bicameral conference committee finally approved on Tuesday a reconciled version of the Universal Health Care Bill that would make health care available…

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