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by Ella IDE Agence France Presse ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy will give all its citizens free vaccinations against coronavirus starting with doctors and care home residents once the jabs are approved, its health minister said Wednesday. The immunisation drive is expected to begin in the spring. Italy will get its vaccines via an EU procurement programme and is waiting for the European Medicines Agency’s green light, Roberto Speranza said. Britain on Wednesday became […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health said that most of the 643 COVID-19 active cases involving health care workers are mild and asymptomatic cases, with only three cases in severe condition and two are critical cases. The latest data reported on Saturday, Aug. 22, were as of Aug. 21, Friday. The DOH said that a total of 6,399 health care workers have been infected with coronavirus, but that 5,717 have already recovered, accounting for […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte will meet with Cabinet members today, Aug. 2, to discuss the call for a “time-out” made by several medical societies amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the announcement in a Tweet. The meeting takes place a day after Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea met with members of the Cabinet and of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases to discuss the call contained […]
(Eagle News)–The Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases has approved the conduct of the physician licensure exam this September. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Friday, July 24, said this was tentatively scheduled on September 20 and 21. Roque said social distancing measures will be strictly observed. The physician licensure exam was supposed to be held in March but the Professional Regulation Commission had to cancel the last parts due to the prohibition […]
(Eagle News)–The Baguio City Prosecutors Office has indicted several Philippine Military Academy cadets and others over the death of Cadet 4th Class Darwin Dormitorio. Cadets Shalimar Imperial, Jr. and Felix Lumbag, Jr. were indicted for hazing and murder, while former PMA hospital chief Lt. Col. Ceasar Candelaria and medical officers Capt. Flor Apple Apostol and Maj. Maria Ofelia Beloy are facing a murder case after they reportedly failed to provide adequate medical care to Dormitorio, […]
Presently, most health care workers with COVID only have “mild cases” (Eagle News) – No health care worker has died due to COVID-19 since May 10, as more recoveries are reported among those infected with the virus. This was the very good news reported by the Department of Health. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that no new COVID-19 death was reported among the ranks of health care frontliners in the fight against […]
by Florence GOISNARD Agence France Presse SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — Neither of the Sztajnboks is getting much sleep these days. Dr. Jacques Sztajnbok, head of intensive care at one of the main coronavirus hospitals in Sao Paulo, Brazil, says the stress of being on the front line of the pandemic often wakes him up in the middle of the night. His wife, Dr. Fabiane Sztajnbok, an infectious disease specialist in the hospital’s emergency room, […]
DOH to probe rising number of infections among health workers (Eagle News) – At least 1,062 health care workers in the Philippines have been infected with COVID-19, with 26 of them succumbing to the disease, according to the Department of Health. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that of the total number infected, 422 are doctors, 386 are nurses, 30 are medical technologists, 21 are radiologic technologists, 51 are nursing assistants, while 152 others […]
by Laura BONILLA Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Battling to keep intensive care patients alive at a hospital in one of New York City’s worst-affected coronavirus neighborhoods is taking a toll on nurse Debbie Sanchez’s mental health. “I have extreme anxiety,” said Sanchez, who has been working 12-hour shifts covered head-to-toe in protective clothing since New York became the epicenter of America’s COVID-19 outbreak last month. Sanchez, 57, was working in […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the Philippine National Police (PNP) to arrest anyone who will harm and discriminate against health care workers amid the current COVID-19 crisis. Duterte said that those who will harass health care workers will face jail time. He also gave strict instructions to the police not to release such individuals until he says so. “I’d like to order the police. If there’s a report of somebody harassing or […]
by Miguel MEDINA Agence France Presse VARESE, Italy (AFP) — The shiny new robots gently check the pulses of highly infectious patients on life support in the Italian epicentre of COVID-19. The doctors and nurses love them because they also help save their own lives. Italians have seen the world around them turn unrecognisable from the various lockdowns and social distancing measures used to fight the new coronavirus outbreak. But little appears to have […]
(Eagle News) — Nine doctors have already died due to coronavirus as lack of protective personal equipment started to take its toll on the country’s health profession in the frontlines of the battle against COVID-19. The war against the coronavirus has in fact taken some of the best doctors in the Philippines, among them a top cardiologist Dr. Raul Jara, the former head of the Philippine Heart Association; a Pampanga provincial health officer, Dr. […]
