Media Release 21 March 2010 There is no official statement from either the Department of Health or the Philippine Medical Association stating that the 43 detainees are not health workers. According to Health Alliance for Democracy, neither the DOH nor the PMA has made any such statement and that once again, the desperate Armed Forces…
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OFWs Decry Proposed Mandatory AIDS Test
An alliance of overseas Filipino workers decried the proposed mandatory Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) test for OFWs. They said that OFWs are now singled out as ‘AIDS-carriers.’ BY Bulatlat.com MIGRANT WATCH Volume VIII, Number 31, September 7-13, 2008 “From Psych test to AIDS test, what else?” asked the largest alliance of overseas Filipino workers…
Dengue Remains a National Threat – DoH
The Department of Health warned that dengue remains to be a major threat among Filipinos even as this year’s figures is represent a 21 percent slide in the number of cases compared to last year. Health Sec. Francisco Duque III said that the mosquito-borne disease is still a problem because the National Capital Region, Region…