DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 24 Sept) – The Davao region has yet to attain herd immunity against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), recording only 3.3 million fully vaccinated individuals or 86.8% of the target population of 3.8 million as of September 19,
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/ 4 October)- At least 12 villagers in in Makilala, North Cotabato have been hospitalized since last week due to the dengue virus, a village official said. The dengue cases were monitored in Barangay Kisante from the last
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/28 September) — The number of underweight children with ages 0-10 years in the four provinces of Davao region is high, according to the results of the 2011 survey by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) of
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/12 May) – Residents here have been warned to be extra cautious in dealing with dog bites following the death last week of a resident in Barangay Balindog due to rabies. Rubber tapper Samson Dayanan, 49, was bitten
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/23 February) – The provincial government of South Cotabato has linked up with a local non-government organization to help provide cheaper medicine packages for various surgical and medical needs of poor residents in the area. South Cotabato
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/1 Feb) – Freelance sex workers are dramatically growing in number in Surigao City, leading to an increase in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in 2011 compared to the previous year. Despite the campaign to stem the cases of
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/24 August) – The city government has intensified its campaign for the immediate diagnosis and treatment of suspected dengue cases in a bid to address the rising number of dengue deaths in the city this year that
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/15 July) – Leptorpirosis is the new problem flooded communities may to face after the water had subsided, Health Secretary Enrique Ona said. Ona told MindaNews the flooded areas especially those with high rat populations are prone to
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/12 July) — Some 5.2 million families in the country have not enrolled with the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), Department of Health Secretary Enrique Ona said here Tuesday. Ona said this is the reason for
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/17 June) – Dengue cases in Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao have dropped by at least 78 percent in the last five months but regional health authorities are not slowing down anytime soon with their intensified campaign
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/11 June) — The Bukidnon Provincial Health Office is spearheading the formation of a Bukidnon multi-sectoral alliance for the control of tuberculosis in the province. Dr. Teresita G. Damasco, provincial health officer, said they are holding consultations in
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/30 May) – Schistosomiasis is endemic in 53 of Bukidnon’s 464 barangays with five of these villages having an infection rate of at least 10 percent, according to a report released by the Department of Health Bukidnon Schistosomiasis
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/24 May) – The Department of Health can control schistosomiasis in Bukidnon with the help of the community using a mix of ways with emphasis on mass treatment, Dr. Ricardo Reyes, DOH provincial health team leader said. He
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/22 May) – The City Health Office here has recorded seven new cases of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired Immunodeficiency Acquired Syndrome (HIV-AIDS), from January this year, bringing to 35 the number of cases recorded since 1995, Dr. Rodel Agbulos,
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/20 May) — If voting on the controversial Reproductive Health Bill were done now, it will muster at least 123 votes in the 285-member House of Representatives, Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan of the Gabriela party-list, said. As
TAGAYTAY CITY (MindaNews/20 May) – The negative public attitude towards persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) such as discrimination and stigmatization, is a major challenge facing health workers in curbing the deadly disease in the country, experts said. Dr.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/17 May) — Despite the nature of their work commercial sex workers in General Santos City have so far been free of the dreaded human immunodeficiency virus- acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV-AIDS), according to Dr. Mely Lastimoso
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/15 May) — The Bukidnon Provincial Board has passed a resolution requesting the World Health Organization (WHO) to intervene and provide financial assistance for the rehabilitation of the Matin-ao Spring Resort in Bangcud, Malaybalay City to “contain and
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/10 May) – The Province of Bukidnon has a lackluster record in detecting tuberculosis cases. It is, in fact, at the bottom in Northern Mindanao with only a 55-percent case detection rate (CDR) compared to the national cut-off
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/9 May) – The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Southern Mindanao’s budget for medicine is so small that it can only fork out P3 per prisoner per day whereas ideally, each inmate should be provided P5
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/23 February) – Hospitals and wellness centers here offer the country’s cheapest dialysis treatment, but a medical director of an upstart wellness center also warned of the increasing number of kidney patients, including many diabetics. Hospitals and medical
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/05 February) – An environmentalist-lawyer has urged legislators in North Cotabato to look into the province’s Environment Code before they allow the field testing of a genetically-modified eggplant inside a state-owned university in Kabacan town. In a forum
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/23 January) – There were fewer cases of sexually transmitted infections here in 2010 compared with the previous year, records from the City Health Office showed. Cases of gonorrhea, bacterial vaginosis, and other transmitted diseases went down in
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 January) — Competent, volunteer nurses working for free and new nursing graduates undergoing training to enter the profession are two separate issues that should be treated separately, an official of a government hospital here said. Dr. Leopoldo
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 Dec) ¬- City Hall has asked the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) to revoke the permit of the University of the Philippines (UP) in Mindanao to conduct the field testing of the genetically-modified eggplants in the city. Mayor Sara Duterte said UP Mindanao failed to notify the city about the conduct of the field tests, a crucial requirement in the Department of Agriculture Administrative Order 8 governing the conduct of the field trials.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 December) — Amid loud cheers from organic farmers and people opposed to Bt eggplant, UP Mindanao complied late afternoon Friday with Mayor Sara Duterte’s order to have the genetically-modified crop uprooted from the field test site near
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / November 20) – Cotton fabrics dyed with extracts from eight tropical plants have been found to combat pneumonia and abscess-causing bacteria, according to a study conducted by the Philippine Textile Research Institute at the Department of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 October) – Field testing of the genetically-modified eggplant will reportedly start this month but residents in Barangay Oshiro, where the field tests will take place, complain they have been kept blind about the tests. Jonah Macarayo, barangay
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/12 October) – Health officials here warned anew residents against the dangers posed by the dreaded Human Immunodeficiency Virus or HIV infection after two more local residents recently tested positive of the disease. Dr. Mely Lastimoso, coordinator
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 October)—Pro-Life advocates are questioning an August 19 memorandum from the Department of Education here requiring 14-year-old girls in public schools to submit to tetanus toxoid vaccination. Retired Judge Melchor Quitain questioned a memorandum signed by Helen D.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/05 October) – Government resources were better spent on fighting the unabated rise in dengue cases than on promoting reproductive health-related programs especially the use of contraceptives, a leader of the Catholic Church here said. Bishop Dinualdo
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/05 October) – Less than 200 of the 46,000 PhilHealth beneficiaries who were identified as the poorest of the poor in Southern Mindanao came to claim their health cards over the weekend. Filbert Bryan Sollesta, PhilHealth division chief
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/02 October) – A hundred indigents from Kidapawan City in North Cotabato received from the Department of Health (DOH) in Southwestern Mindanao (Region 12) health insurance cards during the nationwide launching today of Philhealth Sabado, one of the
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/30 Sept) – The Department of Health (DOH) is working for the establishment of a regional treatment center for tuberculosis in Koronadal City to help effectively address the growing cases of the disease in Region 12 or
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/30 Sept) – The Department of Health (DOH) in Southwestern Mindanao (Region 12) is targeting 49,000 indigent families for the nationwide registration day for membership in the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) on Saturday. Dr. Abdullah Dumama, DoH-12
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/29 September) – Bukidnon Gov. Alex P. Calingasan refuted reports that dengue cases and deaths caused by the viral disease this year have increased to alarming levels. He said the real story is how the many “unsung heroes”
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/28 September) – Some 3,500 school children in South Cotabato were chosen as beneficiaries for the fourth phase of the province’s anti-malnutrition initiative Kapit-Bisig Para sa Kabataan project. Gov. Arthur Pingoy Jr. said they decided to continue
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/27 September) – An open letter to Bukidnon legislators published in a social networking site about the intensity of the dengue fever problem in the province has elicited reactions and may have exposed a latent political tension in
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/23 September) – Patients at the Southern Philippines’ Medical Center (SPMC) will soon say goodbye to long queues for records and billings. The SPMC is now on the final phase of its health information system for easier access
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/22 September) – Dr. Dante Douglas Belderol, a physician at the Malaybalay City Health Office, is proposing some clever methods of fighting the mosquito-borne viral disease dengue. Belderol, the dengue point person of the Rural Health Unit, said
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/14 September) – Pupils and teachers of North Cotabato’s biggest elementary school have agreed to contribute small amounts for a sanitation drive that aims to counter the rising number of dengue cases in the school. Each pupil of
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/9 Sept) – Health authorities here recorded three new confirmed deaths due to dengue fever since last week, bringing the number of confirmed fatalities due to the mosquito-borne disease to nine. A report from the City Integrated
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/06 September) – Health personnel in South Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat provinces will launch joint border operations against malaria later this month to further reduce the cases of malaria infections in the two areas. Jose Barroquillo, South
