Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 07:05:07 +0000
The DOJ indicted former Health Secretary Janette Garin and several others for reckless imprudence resulting to homicide for the deaths of schoolchildren linked to the controversial Dengvaxia vaccine.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:30:07 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health (DOH) reiterated its call for the passage of a bill that would increase tax on tobacco and alcoholic drinks, citing that doing so would save lives and would help fund the newly signed Universal Healthcare Act.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 09:42:17 +0000
The DOH medical officer arrested on Thursday has been absent without official leave since November 2018, the health department said Thursday.
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 05:27:57 +0000
PDEA agents on Thursday arrested a medical officer of the DOH and six others during a buy-bust operation in Mandaluyong City.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 14:02:30 +0000
The enactment of the National Integrated Cancer Control Act assures the public that the Duterte administration is “serious with its fight against one of the leading causes of death in the country,” according to the Department of Health (DOH).
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:06:54 +0000
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Thursday called on Congress to raise the excise on tobacco and alcohol to finance the implementation of a newly signed law giving all Filipinos access to health care services.
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Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:14:11 +0000
As the measles death toll reached 136 since Jan. 1, the Anakalusugan party-list group challenged the Department of Health (DOH) to account for how it spent its P7.43-billion budget for its immunization program in 2018.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:44:51 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — The reversal of the measles outbreak in the Philippines may happen by the first week of April if immunity could be raised to 95 percent, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said Thursday.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:29:25 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – The Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) on Thursday filed three more complaints before the Department of Justice (DOJ) against former and current health officials in connection with the death of more three more minors who received shots of the dengue vaccine Dengvaxia.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 06:09:14 +0000
A party-list group told the DOH to account for the P7.43-billion budget for immunization in 2018 in light of the measles outbreak.
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