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Published April 13, 2021, 10:48 PM The Department of Health (DOH) said all public and private hospitals, health facilities and Temporary Treatment and Monitoring Facilities should ensure the availability of testing services for all their healthcare workers (HCWs). The DOH reiterated Department Memorandum (DM) No. 2020-0546 or the Interim Guidelines on Mandatory COVID-19 Testing of Public and Private Health Workers which mandates all public and private hospitals and health facilities, including ...

Published April 7, 2021, 1:40 PM Bulacan’s COVID tally reached 19,930 on Tuesday (April 6), with the addition of 142 new cases. The Bulacan Provincial Public Health Office (BPHO) said among the province’s total number of COVID cases, 15,558 have already recovered, and 534 have died. Bulacan currently has 3,838 are active cases, 236 are which are admitted in hospitals, 328 are in Temporary Treatment and Monitoring Facilities (TTMF), and 3,264 are in home isolation. Malolos, San Jose Del Mont...

Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, April 6, urged the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF) and the Department of Health (DOH) to release their report on the P9-billion budget allocated for the construction of temporary hospitals and isolation facilities.

By JOAHNA LEI CASILAO, GMA News Published April 3, 2021 5:27pm The Department of Health (DOH) said on Saturday that they and their partners fast-tracked the delivery and assembling of modular tents in hospitals across the National Capital Region (NCR) amid reports of a lack of vacancies for COVID-19 cases. According to the DOH, the following eight NCR hospitals had requested for modular tents: Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center (JRRMMC) Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital and Sanitar...

MANILA, Apr. 3 -- With the goal of augmenting hospital capacities following the increased occupancy rates in NCR hospitals, the Department of Health (DOH), the World Health Organization (WHO), and UNICEF are fast tracking the delivery and set up of modular tents in hospitals across Metro Manila. As of writing, eight (8) NCR hospitals have requested the setting up of modular tents, namely: Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center (JRRMMC) at the Quezon Institute (QI), Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hos...

SunStar Cebu, Mandaue, Lapu mayors mull uniform curfew UNIFORM CURFEW Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes (first, from left) wants to meet with the mayors of the cities of Cebu and Lapu-Lapu to come up with a synchronized curfew ordinance to lessen the Covid-19 cases in their cities. Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella (middle) and Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard Chan (first, from right) are open to meet with Cortes. (SunStar file) + March 16, 2021 MANDAUE City Mayo...

New P.3 variant 'possible'; cases being verified - DOH

SunStar DOH 7: Cebu’s health care coping amid high number of Covid cases. (File photo) + March 13, 2021 THE latest data on the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) critical care utilization rate for both private and public health facilities in the cities of Cebu, Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu show that the health care system is still capable as the majority of confirmed active cases are asymptomatic. As of 8 p.m. Friday, March 12, 2021, the utilization rate was still below the 60 percent ...

DAVAO CITY, March 8 (PIA)- A total of 105 health workers from the primary, secondary and tertiary private hospitals in the city turned out initially during the vaccination roll out for the first time at the A. Mabini Elementary School in Bangkal Davao City. Dr. Ashley Lopez, acting city health officer and focal person for COVID-19 concerns in Davao City bared that the experts will use up first the 10,000 vaccines intended for the medical health workers in the city before the delivery of more va...

Published March 5, 2021, 1:51 PM DAVAO CITY – Frontline health workers at the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) were immunized against COVID-19 at the start of the vaccination campaign here Friday. A DOCTOR of the Southern Philippines Medical Center receives a Sinovac vaccine as the COVID-19 vaccinaton program kicks off in Davao City Friday. (Keith Bacongco/ MANILA BULLETIN) SPMC officer-in-charge medical chief Dr. Ricardo Audan was the first to be immunized among SPMC healthcare wor...