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By Rina Jimenez-David
“Dengue season” is upon us, what with the onset of the rainy season. This is because the rains and floods create stagnant pools of water where mosquitoes bearing the dengue-causing organism breed. But in truth, as the Department of Health says, dengue is a year-round threat, since many households still harbor locations and containers where water may collect—drums, pails, tires, ponds, fountains, gutters, even vases—which even at the height of summer may host mosquito populations.
Posted: June 17th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
This is to react to the recent news item, “DOH bats for ‘SEX’ in call centers” (Metro, 5/25/13). Why must everything be related to sex? Using sex as an acronym for “stress-free, eating right and exercise” may be catchy and amusing, but I believe the health and labor officials who came up with the campaign should have considered that statistics show that the BPO industry has shown an alarming increase in reported HIV cases.
Posted: June 3rd, 2013 in Inquirer Opinion,Letters to the Editor | Read More »
By Neal H. Cruz
The defect in the proclamation of the winning senatorial candidates has been corrected, according to election lawyer Romulo Macalintal, who criticized the proclamation soon after the first six senators were proclaimed. Macalintal was one of the three guests at the Kapihan sa Manila at the Diamond Hotel last Monday. The two others were Dr. Honorata L. Catibog, director of the Department of Health’s National Center for Disease Prevention and Control, and Dr. Anthony P. Calibo, also of the same center and a specialist in the care of the newborn.
Posted: May 21st, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
The Inquirer’s Dec. 6 editorial (“In the real world”) made the case for the use of condoms to stop the HIV epidemic in the Philippines. To support the proposal, it cited statistics of rising HIV incidence year after year. Mention was made of the Department of Health stopping the purchase of condoms in 2001, and [...]
Posted: December 27th, 2012 in Inquirer Opinion,Letters to the Editor | Read More »
THIS IS a reaction to the Inquirer editorial of Nov. 14 regarding the Doctors to the Barrios (DTTB) program. The editorial meant well; unfortunately, some of the issues it raised were framed rather inaccurately.
Posted: December 15th, 2012 in Inquirer Opinion,Letters to the Editor | Read More »
By Jose Ma. Montelibano
The PRC is the Philippine Regulatory Commission. I believe it is tasked to regulate licenses of professionals like doctors, nurses, engineers, etc. I have never dealt with the PRC although I have been approached by interested parties asking for endorsements to become commissioners in this agency. Of course, I never got to accommodate any of these requests because I have no influence whatsoever with the appointing authorities.
Posted: September 6th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Viewpoints | Read More »
By Rina Jimenez-David
While the Department of Health currently operates on an annual budget of P40 billion, the total annual expenditure for smoking-related illnesses (cancers, lung diseases and cardio-vascular complications, not to mention lower productivity, absenteeism and fires caused by cigarettes) total P400 billion.
Posted: February 4th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
Just what would it take to scare people away from dangerous firecrackers every New Year? Authorities have tried persuasion and blunt warning alike, but they haven’t had much impact on a populace so in thrall to the supposed lucky properties of exploding, injurious pyrotechnics at the start of the new year—the bigger the bang, the [...]
Posted: December 31st, 2011 in Editor's Pick,Editorial | Read More »
In early September last year, the Department of Health reported that 62,500 Filipinos had been downed by dengue fever since the beginning of the year. That number represented an 88-percent spike compared to the same period in 2009, with some 465 deaths already recorded across the country. This year, the number of dengue patients since [...]
Posted: August 24th, 2011 in Columns,Editorial,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
