Inflation 2.9 percent in January, but prices of masks, medicines stable despite Taal eruption, nCoV scare

Ben O. de Vera 02/05/2020

People buying protective masks at a medical supplies store in Manila on January 31, 2020. Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP Inflation was up to an eight-month high of 2.9 percent last January but the government said…

Southern Leyte PHO to open HIV/AIDS testing hub in Jan. 2020

Jani Arnaiz 01/11/2020

MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte – A treatment hub will be opened this month at the Salvacion Oppus Yniguez Memorial Provincial Hospital (SOYMPH) located at the Dogon Village in Maasin City to cater to patients who are infected…

‘Samuel’ isolates E. Samar town; residents appeal for food, medicines

Inquirer.net 11/23/2018

TACLOBAN CITY — A town in Eastern Samar was rendered isolated after a landslide due to tropical depression “Samuel” hit the village that served as its entry point to a nearby town. Compounding the misery of the…

Displaced Naga residents get medicines

PR 10/18/2018

Flordeliza Lapitan tried to keep her composure as she shared about her 9-year-old son Jack’s stomach pains with the resident health worker at the Enan Chiong Activity Center (ECAC) on the morning of October 12. Her voice…

DSWD to expand free medicine program

Futch Anthony Inso 12/21/2017

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will expand its free Medical assistance to five other public hospitals in Central Visayas. This after it was piloted at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) this year.…

60 inmates lose visitation rights

Morexette Marie B. Erram 10/06/2017

The management of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) ordered the suspension of visitation privileges of 60 inmates on Friday, a day after shabu was found from inside the detention cells that they occupy. Roberto…

P10M drugs, expired medicines ‘cremated’

Miguel Ermac 07/26/2017

Illegal drugs and expired medicines worth P10 million were burned in a fire chamber at the Cosmopolitan Funeral Homes in Junquera Street, Cebu City, Wednesday morning. The drugs worth P8.5 million consisted of shabu, marijuana and nubian.…

DSWD urges indigents to avail free medicines

PR 05/23/2017

The Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7) is encouraging indigent patients who are confined in or receiving outpatient treatment from the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) in Cebu City to avail the…

Business exec shows interest in Cebu City’s free medicines program

Inna Mejia 03/03/2017

The Cebu City government’s Long Life Medical Assistance Program will get a needed boost once a top business executive of an investment company makes good on his promise to help in the program. Mayor Tomas Osmeña said…

Group warns public on alternative medicines

Cebu Daily News 01/11/2017

THE Philippine Society of Medical Oncology (PSMO) is warning the public on the dangers of substituting scientific cure and treatment to cancer with complementary and alternative medicines (CAM). This is in light of the proliferation of CAM…

Apas execs to file plaint on seizure of medicines

Nestle L. Semilla 11/26/2016

Officials of Barangay Apas, Cebu City, plan to file a complaint against the City Health Office at the regional Department of Health (DOH-7) for allegedly confiscating the medicines intended for their constituents. Apas barangay chairman Ramil Ayuman…

Capitol takes steps to prevent deaths in district hospitals

Victor Anthony V. Silva 12/04/2015

The Cebu provincial government is taking steps to ensure that provincial and district hospitals have enough medicines and supplies in order to prevent unnecessary deaths of patients. Jone Sepe, Provincial General Services Office (PGSO) officer-in-charge, said they…

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