Ubial outlines health priorities
INCOMING Health Secretary Jean Paulyn Rusell-Ubial said she will review the Department of Health’s “distorted” health expenditures which resulted in ...
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DoH turnover underway
THE cancer support group New Vois Association of the Philippines supported the appointment of career health department official Paulyn Jean ...
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Health workers upbeat on incoming DoH chief
Rising from the ranks, the incoming Health Secretary Paulyn Jean Rosell-Ubial, described as a “humble worker” by her colleagues ...
Read moreHealth care bill okayed
The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill that seeks to integrate hospice and palliative ...
Read moreZika situation under control, says Palace
The Palace gave the public an assurance on Saturday that the Health department is on top of the situation as ...
Read moreDoH vaccinates 81,000 children against dengue
The Department of Health said this week that it had vaccinated 81,665 school children aged nine years old against dengue ...
Read moreDoH blasted for anti-Filipino bias
A party-list lawmaker has called for a congressional probe of the disqualification from public bidding of a Filipino who invented ...
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Health Secretary Janette Garin gestures during a press conference on Monday on the Zika Virus in Manila on Monday. AFP
Read moreHealth rules out Zika virus outbreak
Malacañang on Monday said there is no epidemic or an outbreak of the deadly Zika virus in the Philippines. “ Secretary Garin ...
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DoH’s lack of urgency is dangerous to public health
Happy Hour got wind of a very disquieting experience that a topnotch hotel in Metro Manila allegedly had with the ...
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