“Timely submission will facilitate the immediate distribution of the Special Risk Allowance (SRA); Meals, Accommodation, and Transportation (MAT) allowance; and One COVID-19 Allowance (OCA) funds to our healthcare workers and frontliners who deserve to be paid on time. DOH urges all to do their part towards this goal,” the department said.
More than 126,000 medical frontliners from the private sector have yet to receive their sickness and death benefits as provided for in the two Bayanihan laws that President Duterte signed during the two-year pandemic.
MANILA - The Department of Health-Center for Health Development (DOH-CHD) in Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) region, in partnership with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the City Government of Trece Martires, has put up a Drug Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation Center (DATRC) in Barangay Osorio. The construction of the DOH-DATRC is a component of a JPY1.85-billion (PHP734 million) undertaking called "Consolidated Rehabilitation of Illegal Drug Users" (CARE), a bilateral project in line with the Japan-Philippines Joint Statement on Bilateral Cooperation to combat illegal drugs, as part of the efforts to uphold public safety. According to DOH officer-in-charge Undersecretary Leopoldo Vega, DATRC will be the apex or an end-referral of all rehabilitation centers in the country. "The DOH shares a vision of a healthy Pilipinas through health promotion activities of substance use and abuse. The DOH believes that substance use and abuse is a
DAVAO CITY Two cancer diagnostic and treatment facilities here would be a blessing for Mindanao in terms of accessibility and proximity for the treatment of this dreaded disease, as Malacañang described it as “huge leap” for the country to address the health needs of Filipinos particularly the indigents and marginalized. President…
Latest data showed that 18.4% of 24,678 COVID-19 ward beds across the country were occupied. The occupancy rate of 3,138 ICU beds nationwide was at 25.7%.