Healthy lifestyle for Filipino consumers
As a leading Barley products innovator, Sante International has honored top distributors for their valuable contribution in leading a healthy lifestyle for Filipino consumers while gaining from business opportunities. In a recent event held at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City, Sante chief executive officer Jesus Joey Marcelo recognized the loyal employees and successful [...]
Ailments that easily affect children
Premier medical institute AIIMS will organize a three-day conference Wednesday in which paediatric neurosurgeons will deliver lectures on precautions needed to be taken for ailments that easily affect children. The lectures, designed in such a way that the common man understands them, will be delivered by surgeons both from the country and abroad with focus [...]
Avoid Dengue in Dominican Republic
At least 325 new cases of dengue fever are reported every week in the Dominican Republic recently, the Public Health Ministry said Tuesday. Public Health Minister Freddy Hidalgo led thousands of volunteers to participate in a national campaign against the disease in a western district of the capital Santo Domingo on Tuesday. Hidalgo stressed the [...]
Batanes won the 2012 Nutrition Honor Award (NHA)
Governor Vicente S. Gato on Wednesday announced that Batanes won the 2012 Nutrition Honor Award (NHA), the highest award in the implementation of nutrition program. Batanes bagging the 2012 NHA came after it has been a consistent Regional Outstanding Winner in Nutrition from 2006 to 2009 per evaluation of the Regional Nutrition Evaluation Team (RNET). [...]
Unidentified Skin Disease
The local Women’s Association in the central province of Quang Ngai’s Ba To District is striving to prevent another outbreak of an unidentified skin disease which has led to organ failure and death for 23 people. Although no new cases of the disease have been reported since June, the women’s group has raised over VND15 [...]
Travel Advisory: Avoiding Malaria in Vietnam
Persistent rain has prompted a warning that malaria cases are increasing after years on the wane and an outbreak is “highly likely” in some remote and mountainous areas. Nguyen Xuan Thieu, deputy director of the Ministry of Health’s Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology, said the areas at high-risk were in the Central Highlands, central [...]
TB-Linking Initiatives on Networking to Control Tuberculosis (TB-LINC)
Acting Regional Governor Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) will soon sign the adoption of Executive Order 187, Series of 2003 instituting the Comprehensive and Unified Policy (CUPS) for Tuberculosis Control in the region. Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health problem with the Philippines ranked ninth among the 22 high [...]
Dog Bites in Samal Island, Philippines
The local government of this island city of the Davao Region is preparing for the declaration of the city as rabies-free by 2015, five years earlier than the national target of 2020. Provincial Veterinarian Office chief Renato Embate said the rabies case actually came from Davao del Sur and brought to the island. When it [...]
Community Primary Hospital in Negros Oriental, Philippines
The seventh Community Primary Hospital in Negros Oriental now formally serves the catchment barangays of Santa Catalina, Mabinay, Bayawan City, Bais City and Tanjay City. The Dauis Community Primary Hospital located in Barangay Dauis, Bayawan City is the seventh community primary hospital erected in the province of Negros Oriental and is aimed at providing basic [...]
Eradicating Polio in the World
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday called for continued dedication in “finishing the job” in eradicating polio, while also applauding India for being “declared polio free” for the first time in history. UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said in a statement released here on World Polio Day, which falls on Oct. 24, that [...]