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DIGOS CITY - The Department of Health (DOH) has officially declared the downgrading of the Davao del Sur Provincial Hospital (DSPH) from a Level 2 hospital to an infirmary category. In a letter dated Jan. 24, 2022, Dr. Teodora M. Eugenio, OIC-Director of the DOH Health Facilities and Services Regulatory Bureau (HFSRB), informed Dr. Jaime Marcelo Razo, Davao del Sur Provincial Hospital chief of office, that the DSPH has been downgraded to the infirmary class. Eugenio, in her letter, said the DOH-HFSRB had sent a letter through e-mail on Jan. 14, 2022 to Razo regarding the status of the DSPH hospital renewal application for the year 2022 and gave a compliance period of six days to settle all the noted deficiencies. However, based on the copy obtained by the media, the administrator of the provincial hospital failed to submit all the requirements within the specified time frame, prompting the DOH-HFSRB to issue the new category for the DSPH decreasing its capability to infirmary level. Th ....
DAVAO CITY - The Department of Health in the Davao Region (DOH-11$ announced on Tuesday that the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccination rollout for minors aged 12 to 17 with comorbidities will start on October 29 in identified hospitals throughout the region. In a statement, Dr. Roy Ferrer, Assistant Secretary of Health for Visayas and Mindanao, said Moderna and Pfizer have an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the A3 pediatric population aged 12 to 17. Children under A3 are those with underlying medical comorbidities and at risk of severe Covid-19. These children have been identified to have medical complexities, genetic conditions, neurologic conditions, metabolic or endocrine diseases, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), or tuberculosis. "We assure everyone that vaccines are safe and effective. We encourage parents and children with co-morbidities to get vaccinated," Ferrer said. In this city, vaccination for the Pediatric A3 g ....