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+ January 26, 2021 ADJUSTMENTS to the newly amended national guidelines on community quarantine and preparations for the mass vaccination program were discussed during the 3rd virtual meeting of the Bacolod City Covid-19 Vaccination (CoVac) Council Sunday, January 24, 2021.
Presided by Mayor Evelio Leonardia, the virtual dialogue heavily touched on the latest amendments to the National Inter-Agency Task Force’s (NIATF) Omnibus Guidelines on the Implementation of Community Quarantine in the Philippines.
Bacolod City has been placed under the Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) for several months now. MGCQ is considered the lowest community quarantine status as per NIATF guidelines.
Section 5 (3) of the amended Omnibus Guidelines provides that for areas placed under MGCQ, “[a]ny person below ten (10) years old, those who are over sixty-five (65) years of age and above, those with immunodeficiency, comorbidity, or other health risks, and pregnant
Dr. Sy will help advance neurological care for Manhattan residents by developing a comprehensive neurocritical care program
Heustein Lu Sy, MD, has been appointed director of neurosurgical critical care at Lenox Hill Hospital. Over the past four years, Dr. Sy has served as an attending neurointensivist at the hospital’s department of neurosurgery.
In his new role, Dr. Sy will be responsible for developing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and integrative clinical neurocritical care program. In addition, Dr. Sy will provide leadership in meeting the hospital’s service excellence initiatives by implementing quality standards for neurocritical care; guide the educational needs of the neurocritical care team; and promote a culture of innovation, improving neurocritical care research.
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+ January 21, 2021 THE University of Cebu Medical Center (UCMed) is proud to announce that the Philippine College of Physicians (PCP) has granted the UCMed Internal Medicine Residency Training Program Provisional II Accreditation status effective Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2021.
With this accreditation, UCMed is now duly authorized to train Level 1 and 2 residents in the field of Internal Medicine. The residency program is committed to developing and maintaining a program that maximizes the potential of all trainees to produce exemplary, dedicated and person-centered internists in the future.
The Department of Internal Medicine of UCMed is now accepting incoming residents to its roster.
Spearheaded by its chairman Dr. Lamberto M. Garcia Jr. and training officer Dr. Nello Bayani IV R. Roa Jr., the Department of Internal Medicine welcomes applicants for this year and aims to make the residency program a leading training vehicle designed to level up medical professio