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Health
Massive budget cuts to make health even more inaccessible to the poor
By MIKHAELA EMY SALLEBulatlat.com MANILA – Filipino health workers have expressed their concern regarding the massive budget cuts in the health sector, saying this will further make it inaccessible to the country’s poor. On Sep. 28, the AHW held a protest in front of...
Surviving breast cancer in the time of COVID
By KIMBERLIE QUITASOLNorthern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY— Cyrene Reyes, editor of the North Star Magazine, was diagnosed with Breast Cancer Stage 2-B in February 2021, at a time when the country’s healthcare system was overwhelmed by the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)...
Under the knife: the 2024 health budget
By MARICAR PIEDADIBON Foundation In the 2023 State of the Nation Address (SONA), Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr vowed that the health system would go through structural changes. But the proposed 2024 budget for the sector is slashed by Php2 billion, while the new...
Health care in PH remains unbalanced, groups tell UN
Health groups reported at the United Nations (UN) that access to health care in the Philippines remains inequitable despite digital innovations and technological breakthroughs in the sector.
#NoGoldenEra | In 2023, public health still not a priority
In the first six months of Ferdinand Marcos Sr., advocates are up in arms over the lack of priority given to improving the country’s public health system with no health secretary and still no direct services for the people.
Nowhere in sight? | Filipino health workers still in search of hazard pay, COVID-19 allowances
The end of the COVID-19 pandemic may be “in sight” as far as the World Health Organization is concerned. But for Filipino health workers, their rightful hazard pay and allowances remain nowhere to be seen.
Nang matapos na ang pandemya
Kailangan maalala ng gobyerno na ang obligasyon nito sa mga Pilipino ay sistematikong tugon at suporta, hindi paninisi at parusa.
Testing is still vital in fight against COVID-19, public health advocates tell DOH
A group of public health advocates is calling on the Department of Health to revisit its proposed shift in the country’s pandemic response, where testing and contact tracing will no longer be a priority even as the number of new COVID-19 infections continue to soar.
Roxas hospital’s budget, still no approval; HCWs to file mass leave
The employees of the Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital (RMPH) intend to pursue their plan to file for leave of absence if the hospital’s supplemental budget will not be approved.
Agonies of health workers still unmet amid stricter lockdown
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – In the evening of Holy Wednesday, Pauline Budy limped as she made her rounds in the emergency room of San Lazaro Hospital, the country’s primary facility for infectious diseases. She is in pain. Over a week ago she...
New Philhealth chief may put people’s lives in peril – community doc
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Critics are far from impressed by President Rodrigo Duterte’s marching order to his newly-appointed PhilHealth chief to eradicate corruption in the long-beleaguered public health insurance system. But more than this,...
Frontliners combat COVID-19 amid rotten public health system
The lack of basic social services accessible to the poorest of the poor remains as the biggest stumbling block for health workers