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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 25) - A medical group in Negros Oriental is appealing to authorities to place the province under the strictest form of lockdown, saying the healthcare system is buckling due to a rapid rise in COVID-19 cases.
The Negros Oriental Medical Society said in a statement that a shift to an enhanced community quarantine can help bring reprieve to hospitals on the brink of collapse. Give us time to reset, it said in a social media post last weekend. Please do something before healthcare collapses.
Dr. Joven Occeña, the group s president, told CNN Philippines on Tuesday they are recommending at least two to three weeks of hard lockdown. He said virtually all of the major medical facilities in the province have declared full capacity.
Published May 26, 2021, 4:26 PM
Citing the Philippines’ low inoculation rate, a health expert on Wednesday, May 26, said fully vaccinated senior citizens should still stay home “and be more patient.”
A vaccinator from the Manila Health Department Office inoculates a Sinovac vaccine against COVID-19 to a senior citizen inside her house in Batangas Street, Tondo Manila during a house-to-house vaccination (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN)
In an interview with Teleradyo, Dr. Maricar Limpin, vice president of the Philippine College of Physicians (PCP) said she is against easing restrictions for fully vaccinated senior citizens.
“Ang baba pa ng vaccination rate natin. Konti pa lang po yung nabakunahan natin. Therefore, at this point in time, senior citizen man yan o nasa 40s, I think hindi pa rin tayo dapat basta-basta dapat magluwag doon sa mga restriction natin (Our vaccination rate is still low. We only have a few vaccinated. Therefore, at this point in time, whether it’s a s
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The Philippines’ Department of Health purchased one billion pesos ($21 million) worth of remdesivir to treat Covid-19 patients. GILEAD SCIENCES INC
Philippines’ $21M remdesivir buy a ‘waste of money’
Mon, 10 May 2021
Two Philippine House lawmakers on May 9 criticised the Department of Health (DoH) for buying one billion pesos ($21 million) worth of remdesivir even after the World Health Organisation (WHO) had rejected the use of the drug in Covid-19 treatment.
Anakalusugan Representative Michael Defensor and House Deputy Speaker Lito Atienza also questioned the DoH’s decision to push through with the transaction, which they described as a waste of money.
“We consider all new purchases of remdesivir as reckless and foolish spending in light of the WHO recommendation, and considering that [the] government is scrounging for money to buy more Covid-19 vaccines and pay for the 2,000-peso cash aid for every Filipino contemplated under the Bayanihan 3 bill,” Defens
May 09, 2021 THE Philippine College of Physicians-Central Visayas chapter (PCP-CV) renewed its support and expression of solidarity to its two colleagues who have been indicted for reckless imprudence resulting to homicide by reposting its official statement dated September 2020 on its official Facebook page on Saturday, May 8, 2021. The same statements would still hold true even to this day. We stand in solidarity with our colleagues and all frontliners. Our enemy is Covid-19, the PCP-CV said.
The colleagues the group is referring to are Chong Hua Hospital Doctors Elfleda Hermandez, an infectious disease specialist, and Yvonne Bettina Montejo, a pulmonologist who handled and provided medical care to the late Barili Mayor Marlon Garcia before he died on September 6, 2020.