HEALTH

Department of Health (DOH) and Department of Education (DepEd) are jointlyholding today second round of the Harmonized Deworming Day.

COTABATO CITY– Residents in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) suffering from diabetes and hypertension are thankful after receiving free maintenance medicines from the region’s Department of Health (DOH-ARMM). The distribution of free medicines in the region started this month.Joery Amad, regional diabetes educator, said the medicines will help combat diabetes and hypertension – two interrelated conditions – and the complications brought about by these two illnesses.

KORONADAL
CITY – The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has announced
that all indigents under various organizations and beneficiaries of government
programs, including groups who have sponsors are automatically entitled to avail
of PhilHealth benefits until the end of 2016.

MANILA -- The number of firecracker-related injuries reached 148 as of Dec. 30, the ninth day of the Department of Health's (DOH) Iwas-Paputok Injury Reduction campaign.So far, no additional case of stray bullets has been recorded and fireworks ingestion is still in zero level based on the reports submitted by DOH’s sentinel hospitals. The 148 cases recorded so far was 68 cases or 31 percent lower than the five-year (2010-2014) average and 28 cases or 16 percent lower than the same period last year,” said DOH spokesperson Dr.

KORONADAL CITY –- Health workers in South Cotabato and North Cotabato have intensified preventive campaign against mosquito-bite-triggered illness as the number of individuals afflicted with dengue has risen this year, officials said today.The provincial health office of South Cotabato have monitored more than 2,600 individuals in the province afflicted with dengue this year with four fatalities.Interviewed by DXOM-AM Radyo Bida Koronadal, Cecile Lorenzo of the Disease Surveillance Officer of South Cotabato Integrated Provincial Health Office said that as of November this year, 2,629 person

KIDAPAWAN CITY -The best gift a government can give to senior citizens of North Cotabato is to help them improve their eye sight.With this in mind, North Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Mendoza today led the distribution of free eye glasses and free eye consultation to thousands of senior citizens in the province dubbed as Antipara Para kay Lolo at Lola,” Jimmy Sta.

KIDAPAWAN CITY– The North
Cotabato provincial health office on Monday recognized the health front liners
for a job well done” in the government’s basic health services down to the
farthest communities.

About 2,700 Barangay Health Workers (BHWs)
gathered at the provincial capitol gym, in Barangay Amas, Kidapawan City for
the 25th BHW Provincial Congress.The BHWs are volunteer health workers in
their respective communities and North Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Mendoza lauded their
spirit of volunteerism for the service of their fellow villagers.

COTABATO CITY -- For public's safety, the city government here has intensified sanitary inspection of food outlets and carenderia, warning food handlers of closure if business and sanitarypermits are not secured.Aniceto Rasalan, secretary to Mayor Japal Guiani Jr, said food centers without sanitary permits issued by the City Health Office may be shut down after due notice.Rasalan said these food areas have been given notices to secure sanitary clearance from the city health.

KORONADAL CITY – Nine persons belonging to one family were hospitalized Monday
morning hours after eating cake and porridge in Banga, South Cotabato, health officials
and survivors said.

The victims,
now confined at the South Cotabato Provincial Hospital here, were residents of
Barangay San Vicente, Banga, South Cotabato, about 20 kilometers south of here.

Seven of the
victims were children aged one 1 to 12 years old, according to Valerie Salazar,
one of the victims. Two others were adults.

COTABATO CITY – More than 1,000 Indigenous Peoples
in a remote village in Barangay Kauran, Ampatuan, Maguindanao have availed of
medical dental services from the provincial government of Maguindanao, officials
said today.
Lynette Estandarte, Maguindanao health focal person,
led the medical outreach program that benefited Teduday IP communities in the
hinterlands of Ampatuan town.
The beneficiaries were from Sitio Rizal who availed of
free consultation, dental services and received vitamins and other services