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With 16,764 frontline health workers yet to receive their hazard pay and risk allowance worth P108.3 million under the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act (Bayanihan 1), Senator Kiko Pangilinan said that the Senate needs to immediately figure out how to provide funding for the frontliners who continue to risk their life every day. “Bayanihan […]
“The President listens to the pleas of our health care workers (HCWs). He will address the concerns of our medical frontliners. In fact, the IATF will discuss this urgent matter to give concrete solutions to problems facing our HCWs.” Cabinet Secretary and Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases co-chair Karlo […]
The alleged overpricing of medical supplies for the government’s campaign to control the spread of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) should be investigated, Senator Kiko Pangilinan said. Senator Panfilo Lacson recently said billions of pesos in taxpayers’ money may have lined the pockets of corrupt public officials behind the procurement of allegedly overpriced personal protective equipment […]
Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) spokesperson Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles has assured the public on Sunday that the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) test kits being used in hospitals around the country are consistent with the standards set by the World Health Organization (WHO) and comply with the strict standards […]
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said with President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of a State of Public Health Emergency, both the public and private sectors can be mobilized to respond to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) threat. Nograles said the Department of Health (DOH) is empowered to require mandatory reporting of “emerging infectious diseases” as well as […]
The government is considering developing some facilities in Visayas and Mindanao as potential quarantine sites for the next batches of Filipino repatriates from countries hit by the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said. Nograles said the plan was pitched, as the government readies itself for the possible “worst-case scenario,” considering that COVID-19 […]
It is safe to conduct festivals and public gatherings in the country, despite the threat of COVID-19, the Department of Tourism (DOT) has assured. Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat gave the assurance after the Department of Health (DOH) earlier recommended the cancellation of big events and other mass gatherings amid the threat posed by the new […]
With the Philippines being an archipelagic country with numerous entry points and the expected influx of Chinese nationals because of the Chinese New Year holiday, Senator Dick Gordon has called on concerned government agencies to put in place plans to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCOV). “I would like to call on the […]
Amid a spike in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) cases nationwide, Senator Win Gatchalian is urging the Department of Health (DOH), the Department of Education (DepEd), and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to strengthen interventions protecting the youth from sexually-transmitted diseases, which entails the full implementation of the Philippine HIV and AIDS Policy Act of […]
The House of Representatives has approved on second reading a measure authorizing the Department of Health (DOH) to set and approve the bed capacity and service capability of all DOH-retained hospitals. The chamber approved by voice vote House Bill 5673, which seeks to address the congestion of patients in public hospitals by allowing the DOH […]