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Health experts push formation  of Cancer Council to protect  patients amid pandemic

Published April 7, 2021, 5:09 PM Health experts have urged the immediate formation of the cancer council to implement a law to protect cancer patients. “It is very critical that the National Integrated Cancer Control Act Council has to be organized and convened. Based on the law, the council will act as a policy-making, planning and coordinating body on cancer control attached with DOH (Department of Health). If they are not convened, what is there to fund?” Paul Perez, president of the Cancer Coalition of the Philippines, said in a statement. Republic Act No. 11215 or the National Integrated Cancer Control Act (NICCA) was signed into law in February 2019, but it remains unimplemented, according to Fatima Lorenzo, president of the Philippine Alliance of Patients Organization.

Cedula, birth certificate may be presented to get Covid-19 vax | Philippine Canadian Inquirer

“Puwede naman kung wala kang ID  ng gobyerno, dokumento issued ng gobyerno, puwede naman iyong cedula para sa mga barangay, puwede rin iyon. Birth certificate  puwede rin iyon, barangay certificate  puwede rin iyon (If you don’t have a government ID, documents issued by the government like cedula for barangays will also be accepted. Birth certificates and barangay certificates as well),” he added. He also noted that under Republic Act 11223 or the Universal Health Care law, all Filipinos are automatically members of PhilHealth. “Under the Universal Health Care Act,  kahit iyong Pilipino na hindi miyembro, kapag nagkasakit ka ora mismo miyembro ka (even if a Filipino is not a member, the moment you get sick, you’re a member). You are eligible for health care benefits that are granted by law to the Filipinos under the Universal Health Care Act,” he said.

Duterte to Robredo: Hindi ako pikon

Published March 8, 2021 10:48pm President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night replied to Vice President Leni Robredo s observation that he seems thin-skinned, stating that he is not pikon but instead angry at her for supposedly increasing public doubt about the Sinovac vaccine. Imbes na magtulong to convince the people, here she comes and making it appear that government has failed in its mandate of securing.Ma am, hindi ako napikon. Hindi ako mapikon kay hindi ko sarili ito, Duterte said during his weekly Talk To The People briefing on COVID-19 developments. Instead, he said, he was angry with Robredo for coming out with a half-truth that the Sinovac vaccine needed a recommendation from the health technology assessment council (HTAC), as Robredo and health associations had said.

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