In time for the deliberation by the House Committee on Health, on the proposed Department of Health budget, members of the Alliance Health Workers (AHW) trooped to the House of Representatives on Wednesday, September 6, to protest and denounce the P13.98 billion cut in health budget.

PROTEST ON HEALTH BUDGET CUT

The A 2018-2019 Expanded National Nutrition Survey of the Department of Science and Technology’s Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI) showed that one out of six Filipino children aged 6 months to 5 years were ‘most affected’ by vitamin A deficiency (VAD). 


Addressing Vitamin A deficiency with rice 

DOH probes LNG-linked illnesses but Batangas CHO says there’s ‘NO SUCH THING’

Responding to a longstanding request by an environmental advocacy group, the Department of Health-Center for Health Development (DOH-CHD) in Calabarzon has initiated an investigation into the escalating cases of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases in Batangas City.


‘NO SUCH THING’

About 450 undernourished children of Tayabas City are being monitored and fed under the government's supplementary feeding program for proper nutrition and weight gain.

Tayabas prioritizes Child Health

The P200 million provided by the Office of the President to the Philippine Orthopedic Center (POC) will “go a long way” towards sustaining the operations of the country’s prime orthopedic center.


P200M for Orthopedic hospital will go a long way

Promoting health of every Filipino is the objective of DOST, the Northern Mindanao Consortium for Health Research and Development in this project.


5-year research agenda to improve health of Mindanaoans 

The Commission on Population and Development (CPD) hopes the recent passage of House Bill 8910 will enable the agency to address the issue of teenage pregnancies in the Philippines.


Inter-agency body to tackle teen pregnancies

Quezon Governor Angelina Tan has decreed the change of name of medical facilities under the operation of the Provincial Government to Quezon Provincial Hospital Network (QPHN).


Public health facilities renamed Quezon Provincial Hospital Network

August is celebrated annually as the National Lung Month, as declared by President Ferdinand Marcos in July of 1978, to promote the healthcare services and a healthy lifestyle, specifically geared towards the respiratory system. 


It's National Lung Month, Get Examined

More than three years after former President Rodrigo Duterte declared the State of Public Health Emergency as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak in March 2020, President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. announced its lifting this weekend.


Done with public health emergency

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