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MANILA – Lawmakers on Wednesday commended Health Secretary Ted Herbosa’s pronouncement to scrap the requirement for senior citizens to present booklets to avail of discounts on medication, calling it a significant step toward easing access to benefits for…
MANILA, Philippines — A senior citizen no longer needs to show a purchase booklet to avail of the mandated discount for their medicines. This is because Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa has signed DOH Administrative Order No. 2024-0017,…
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu – Starting on Monday, October 21, senior citizens in Lapu-Lapu City will already be allowed to source their maintenance and prescription medicines from a privately owned pharmacy. Mayor Junard Chan said that patients, who…
Extreme heat can raise the danger of heat-related illnesses and threaten health in a more subtle way — by amplifying the side effects of many common medications. Hot weather, too, can damage medicines such as insulin…
MANILA, Philippines — Back in the 1970s, the government had a dream of providing cheap medicines for Filipinos, especially the poor, who are often left out of health care. Dr. Cecilia Lazarte, director of the Institute of…
In observance of Hypertension Awareness Month this May, the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) enjoins all Filipinos to be informed about hypertension. Hypertension (high blood pressure) is when the pressure of one’s blood vessels is too high…
Listen to Cebu Daily Newscast and get the latest stories in and around Cebu. Here’s what you need to know on Monday, May 1. LTO to unveil digital driver’s license amid shortage of plastic cards The Land…
CEBU CITY, Philippines –Hundreds of senior citizens from Barangay Punta Princesa in Cebu City flocked to the Punta Princesa Elementary School on Saturday morning, December 10, 2022, for the first day of the simultaneous distribution of the…
MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — The dispensing, selling, and reselling of pharmaceutical products in sari-sari stores and other related outlets here will soon be regulated. This is after the proposed ordinance of city Councilors Joel Seno and Nerissa…
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) has intensified its campaign of accrediting facilities in Central Visayas for the “Konsultasyong Sulit at Tama” also known as PhilHealth Konsulta. To ensure that the comprehensive primary…
MANILA, Philippines — Don’t buy medicines at sari-sari stores, or your ailment might even get worse. President Rodrigo Duterte repeated on Monday this reminder of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) in his taped weekly “Talk…
CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Capitol has provided additional medicines and equipment to aid hospitals in the province as the surge of COVID-19 cases continues. Data from the Provincial Health Office showed that the four provincial and…
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