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Nurses and health workers need decent working conditions like security of tenure arising from permanent employer-employee relationships, funded plantilla positions in government medical facilities, updated increases in salaries and benefits, among other things that protect of their rights and promote their welfare. This according to Dr. Leah Paquiz, elected representative of ANG NARS Party List […]
Senator Sonny Angara seeks to expand the government’s free medicines program for poor families to include more hospitals, especially in far-flung areas. Under the earmarking provision of Senate Bill 1592 or the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN), which Angara sponsored as chairman of the ways and means committee, among the programs that […]
The House committee on appropriations chaired by Rep. Karlo Alexei Nograles (1st District, Davao City) approved a substitute bill seeking to provide policies and prescribe procedures on surveillance and response to notifiable diseases, epidemics, and health events of public health concern. The committee approved the unnumbered substitute bill titled “Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases […]
With at least one study claiming that one out of every three Filipinos grapples with mental issues, the House of Representatives passed on second reading a measure that would address the growing need for a national mental health system that really works for Filipinos needing psychological care. Coming just one more step for approval […]
Senator Sonny Angara has filed a bill that seeks to make cancer treatment and care more equitable and affordable for all Filipinos. “Cancer pushes Filipino families deeper into poverty. Its treatment costs are catastrophic and the economic burden is overwhelming. Social safety nets are limited, with patients and their families often spending on laboratory […]
The House of Representatives, through viva voce voting, recently approved on second reading House Bill 6571 which seeks to establish a medical scholarship program to address the shortage of doctors in the country. Rep. Angelina Tan (4th District, Quezon), chairperson of the committee on health which endorsed the plenary approval of the bill and […]
Senator Risa Hontiveros is pushing for an additional P4 billion in the 2018 budget of the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) social pension for indigent senior citizens to cover another six hundred thousand senior citizens in next year’s appropriation law. Hontiveros said that in the proposed 2018 National Government budget, the fund […]
The House of Representatives approved on second reading House Bill 6396 which seeks to institute policies for the protection and welfare of caregivers in the practice of their profession. Rep. Geraldine Roman (1st District, Bataan), principal author of the proposed “Caregivers Welfare Act”, said professional and responsive care giving is very vital to medically […]
Senator Sonny Angara is pushing for the passage of a bill that seeks to make health services available to all Filipinos at affordable cost even to patients suffering from life-threatening illnesses. Angara’s Senate Bill 1555 integrates hospice and palliative care into the Philippine healthcare system. Palliative and hospice care aims to improve the quality […]
Senator Sonny Angara is pushing for the passage of bills that seek to ensure that Filipinos will be provided with better quality of health services from maternal and infant care up to the end-stage of life. Angara is the principal author of Senate Bill 1537 or the Healthy Nanay and Bulilit Act, also known […]