Suspects behind the killing of a hospital executive in this city were arrested by the police early Friday in Misamis Oriental even before they can get their hands on the PHP150,000 transacted fee allegedly promised by a “middle man”. In a radio interview over DXMR-Magnum Radyo, Marjun Abayon Cabug, 39, of San Antonio, Don Carlos, Bukidnon, said a certain Rene Turtosa contacted him and three others for the plan to kill Dr. Raul Winston Andutan, 62, the medical director of the Maria Reyna-Xavier University Hospital (MRXUH) here. “There was a friend of Rene who gave him (the job in killing
he Japanese Embassy in Manila on Friday said some medical equipment has been turned over to the Balete Rural Health Unit in Batangas, which aims to scale up its operations. The provision of equipment worth USD98,880 (approximately PHP5.2 million) is part of Japan’s official development assistance (ODA) under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) and was approved in 2018. It includes the procurement of an automated blood chemistry analyzer and ultrasound machine. Balete RHU is the town’s main public health facility and provides outpatient primary health care services to about 6,000 patients a year. With the limited
Two projects supported by the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD) — one for hip replacement and another for intramedullary nails – are being designed. In a taped report aired on Friday, Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Secretary Fortunato de la Peña said these projects are the development of a cementless hip replacement system and the development of a magnetic distal targeting device for intramedullary nails. The first one aims to develop a cementless total hip replacement system that can be manufactured locally while complying with international quality standards. “The project is in response to the high
The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) has managed to increase its daily vaccination rate and achieve at least 40 percent of target, according to Health Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje on Friday. The region, composed of Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi provinces and Marawi City, also extended the three-day massive vaccination campaign to two more days until Friday. Data from the BARMM’s Ministry of Health showed that as of November 26, a total of 676,574 have been immunized out of its 2.9 million target, the lowest achievement rate in the country. There were 340 vaccination centers in
Social benefit liabilities of government social institutions (GSIs) like the Social Security System (SSS), the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), and the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) have ballooned to PHP9.935 trillion in 2020 from PHP153.59 billion in 2019. This as the GSIs fully complied with the Philippine Financial Reporting Standards (PFRS) 4, said Department of Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III in a briefing Friday. Dominguez said the PFRS 4 is the current and interim accounting standard imposed on insurance entities in the country. “(W)hen an insurance entity receives money from its members and enters in a contract to provide
Another government-run hospital in Dingras town, Ilocos Norte is now in a better position to isolate and treat patients with infectious diseases with its new out-patient department (OPD) building and expansion of the secondary clinical laboratory of the Dingras District Hospital. The latest hospital upgrade worth PHP14.4 million sourced from Ilocos Norte government’s 20-percent development fund and an additional PHP5 million counterpart from the Department of Health (DOH), hopes to inspire health workers as the government is doing its best in providing quality medical care to the people. Next to the Governor Roque B. Ablan Sr. Memorial Hospital in Laoag,
