Israel besieges 2 more Gaza hospitals, demands evacuations, Palestinians say

Reuters 03/25/2024

CAIRO — Israeli forces besieged two more Gaza hospitals on Sunday, pinning down medical teams under heavy gunfire, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, and Israel said it had captured 480 militants in continued clashes at Gaza’s main…

Sto. Niño de Cebu image visits hospitals, jails

01/06/2024

CEBU CITY — The image of the Sto. Niño de Cebu was brought to some hospitals and jails in Cebu to give the sick and the persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) the chance to venerate the Holy…

DOH may shelve plan to hire unlicensed nurses

Kathleen de Villa 06/24/2023

Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa on Friday said he would consider shelving his plan of allowing unlicensed nursing graduates to work in public hospitals should it fail to hurdle the “legal roadblocks.” At a press briefing, Herbosa pointed…

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. …

Capitol to look into hospitals, ‘lazy’ doctors who refer patients to VSMMC

Morexette Marie B. Erram 08/29/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Capitol will be looking into provincial and district hospitals, as well as doctors, who refer patients from the province with manageable cases to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) instead of…

AppleOne Medical Group solidifies healthcare imprint across VisMin

PR 02/11/2022

As we enter into another chapter in the ever-evolving narrative of the local healthcare industry amidst the pandemic, there continues to be an overwhelming demand for institutions to rethink old ways, reconfigure traditional structures that may no…

Sea ambulances to ply the waters of Cebu soon

Morexette Marie B. Erram 02/09/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Patients from Cebu’s fifth district will no longer have to worry about traffic when going to hospitals in Metro Cebu. Cebu 5th District Rep. Duke Frasco announced that the national government has begun…

Mandaue exec: Despite rise in COVID cases, isolation facilities, hospitals not overwhelmed

Mary Rose Sagarino 01/24/2022

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — Despite the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in Mandaue City, isolation facilities and hospitals are still not overwhelmed. City Councilor Nerissa Soon-Ruiz, chairperson of the committee on health, on Monday, January 23, said…

When to home isolate or home quarantine?

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 01/12/2022

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) is already encouraging the public to home isolate or home quarantine considering that facilities in Cebu have been damaged due to Typhoon Odette. Doctor…

First light: Power reaches hospitals in downtown, uptown Cebu City

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/19/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Visayan Electric has managed to provide power to a portion of Cebu City’s uptown and downtown areas. Visayan Electric President, Engineer Raul Lucero, said that this came from the Cebu Private Power Corporation…

Cebu City to deploy buses for nurses, healthcare workers

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/16/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City will be deploying buses for healthcare workers, who need to travel to and from the hospitals during the onslaught of Supertyphoon Odette.  The Philippine Nurses Association appealed to the tricites of…

Only 150 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Cebu City

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 11/26/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — There are fewer COVID-19 patients currently in hospitals in Cebu City, the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) here, revealed. The EOC said only 150 COVID-19 dedicated beds in 15 public and private hospitals in…

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