HEALTH

KIDAPAWAN CITY --- Thousands of elderly folks stand to receive free eyeglasses from the North Cotabato provincial government as a Yuletide Season gift-giving project for marginalized sectors.The project, dubbed Antipara para kay lolo ug lola, is bankrolled by the office the provincial governor of North Cotabato.The term antipara means reading glasses in most Visayan dialects.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Thousands
of senior citizens in Cotabato have benefited from the outreach program
conducted by the provincial government today in different municipalities,
officials said.

Jessie Enid, focal person on
health and legal matters, said the program includes free eye check-up and the
corresponding distribution of reading glasses under the Antipara para kay Lolo
and Lola Program, part of the early gift-giving program of the provincial
government this Christmas season.

MANILA -- The Department of Health (DOH) assured nobody will really lose their jobs in the agency. While it is true that the Nurses Deployment Program (NDP) reduced the number of hired nurses by 6,970 in 2017, nobody will really lose their job (for those currently hired in the program) because the nature of such hiring is on a contractual basis not a permanent one, Health Secretary Pauline Jean G.

MANILA(PNA) -- As thousands of public health personnel may face a possible mass retrenchment , a senator on Saturday urged his colleagues to take action to save these jobs or at least cushion the effects.Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto made this call expressing alarm over how the proposed 2017 budget for a program of the Department of Health (DOH) will not be able to retain some public health personnel currently hired.Recto said that the DOH’s Rural Health Practice Program (RHPP) would lead personnel to face the dreaded endo (end of contract) at the end of the year.The proposed cut st

COTABATO CITY– After finishing a two-year, three-module program under the Health Leadership and Governance Program, nineteen (19) local chief executives and nine (9) local health officials have vowed to reinvigorate local health boards in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).The participants received program certificates of completion during graduation rites at Heritage Hotel inPasayCityon Friday, October 14.Dubbed ARMM Colloquiumand Moro Leaders in ARMM as Champions thru Health Leadership , the program was aimed at training local chief executives and health officers in every lo

GEN. SANTOS CITY -- The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) today reached out to major national health insurance stakeholders, including the media, both private and government, to bring the firm's programs that benefit all Filipinos.With more than 90 million members, PhilHealth aims to provide health insurance to all Filipinos (100 million plus per Philippine Statistics data), thus its vision is Bawat Filipino, Miembro, Bawat Miembro, Protektado, Kalusugan, Segurado.

DAVAO CITY -- A Muslim mother gave birth to Mindanao’s first test-tube baby at the Brokenshire Hospital here at 3:43 p.m. Thursday.Baby boy Muhagher, who weighed 3.22 kg. and measured 49 cm. long, is the first baby born from a successful pregnancy through the in vitro fertilization (IVF) offered by Brokenshire Hospital, which opened its IVF facility in October last year.IVF is a process by which an egg is fertilized by sperm outside the body.

BASILAN --- Thousands of displaced Muslims benefited from Sunday’s government relief mission in a stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf in Tipo-Tipo town which government forces took over two weeks ago.

SHARIFF AGUAK,
Maguindanao -– Health authorities in Maguindanao have expressed alarm
over the rising dengue cases in the province, which to date, have recorded six
deaths due what they described as preventable disease.

Dr. Tahir
Sulaik, Maguindanao health chief and head of the Integrated Provincial health
Office (IPHO), said from January to first week of August, 428 dengue cases have
been reported, about six percent higher as compared to the same period last
year.

KORONADAL
CITY – Coming prepared was the key to win and capture the top spot in any
competition, be it battle of the brains, skillsor physical competition.

With
this in mind, Queenie Jane Tamalla of PhilHealth 12 bested other government servants
from various national government agencies in Region 12 in the Nutrition
Month culmination activity Nutri Quiz here.