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Cebu’s countryside residents will no longer have to travel to Cebu City for their hospitalization needs if plans to upgrade the hospitals in the cities of Danao and Carcar push through next year. Almost 25 percent of…
For evil to triumph it is enough for good men to do nothing,” says Edmund Burke. Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III will either confirm or negate what his critics have always thought of him to be: spineless…
THE Provincial Health Office (PHO) is encouraging the residents of Asturias town in northern Cebu to put mosquito nets or screens on their windows and doors to prevent the flies found in their area from entering their…
CLEAN surroundings remain the best defense against mosquito-borne diseases like dengue, Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III said yesterday. “Even before (our cleanup drive), communities should play safe and they should clean their area,” Davide said two days…
First it was the City of Cebu. Now comes the province. Capitol officials yesterday recommended the declaration of a state of calamity over rising dengue cases in the province. The recommendation to Governor Hilario Davide III, made…
THE Provincial Health Office will set aside a budget to address the dengue outbreak in the province which already recorded 5,000 dengue cases. During the 3rd quarter Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management (PDRRM) Council meeting Thursday morning,…
DESPITE being understaffed, the Provincial Health Office said it can service all drug surrenderers by tapping barangay health workers to augment their medical personnel in the field. “After their seminars and trainings, PHO is aiming we can…
The Provincial Health Office (PHO) created a “3-in-1 task force” to prevent the increase of cases of mosquito-borne diseases in Cebu. This task force is solely for the prevention of chikungunya, dengue and Zika virus in the…
THE Cebu Provincial government has now assigned an in-house doctor for the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC). Acting Provincial Health Officer Dr. Rene Catan also said that there will be additional health and medical improvements…
Dengue fever cases in Cebu province continue to increase despite the hot weather. From January to March this year, the Provincial Health Office (PHO) recorded 729 cases and 12 deaths attributed to dengue, or 190 percent higher…
Cook cassava properly. A health official issued the advice as cassava that is improperly cooked may have caused food poisoning which resulted in the death of a six-year-old boy in Dumanjug town, southern Cebu. “We still need…
There was ‘no negligence” on the part of two nurses who attended to a four-month-old boy who died in the Barili District Hospital last week, a provincial official said. Dr. Cynthia Genosolango, head of the Provincial Health…
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