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(Eagle News Service) — The Department of Health said that one of the Filipino peacekeepers who recently came home from Liberia is suffering from high fever and had to be transferred to an isolation room after his temperature reached 39.6 degrees Celsius. Acting Health Secretary Janette Garin said the soldier is also suffering from chills. She said that the peacekeeper might be suffering from malaria, or even ordinary flu, and not the dreaded Ebola virus. […]
(Reuters) — More than 100 Philippine peacekeepers arrived at an airbase in Manila on Wednesday (November 12) after staying for almost a year in Liberia. Family members were not allowed contact with the Filipino soldiers and had to watch their arrival in front of monitors set up inside the air force museum, which was around a kilometre away from the peacekeepers. Social workers from the Health Department assisted in debriefing the families with a psycho-social session to help them understand […]
Filipino peacekeepers arrived from Liberia on Wednesday, and are now being readied for a three-week quarantine in Caballo Island.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines will send a new batch of Filipino peacekeepers to Haiti after the Filipino peacekeepers from the Golan Heights returned to the country.
President Aquino stood by the action of the Filipino peacekeepers who escaped from Syrian rebels in Golan Heights.
MANILA, Sept. 5 (PNA) — The Philippine National Police (PNP) is closely coordinating with the Department of Health (DoH) on the conduct of medical examinations for returning peacekeepers from Liberia to prevent possible Ebola infection in the country. Chief Supt. Reuben Theodore Sindac, PNP Public Information Office (PIO) head, said Friday said that post-arrival medical examinations will be conducted on all returning peacekeepers who are due to come home in October. The PNP sent 30 […]
Chief of Staff of the UN Disengagement Observer Force resigned following the standoff and the escape of the Filipino peacekeepers.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines will give a heroes’ welcome to the more than seventy Filipino peacekeepers after their seven-hour battle against Syrian rebels in the Golan Heights.
(PUERTO GALERA, ORIENTAL MINDORO) President Benigno S. Aquino III said here Friday that Filipino soldiers serving as United Nations (UN) peacekeepers in the Golan Heights remain safe despite a stand-off with Syrian rebels. “Sa ngayon, bagama’t tense ang sitwasyon ay tila wala naman ho talagang masasabi nating panganib na inuulat sa ating Kagawaran ng Tanggulan,” said President Aquino.The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said in a bulletin issued on Friday that Syrian rebels surrounded […]
MANILA, Aug. 16 (PNA) — President Benigno S. Aquino III wants a detailed assessment of how safe Filipino peacekeepers are in Liberia and Golan Heights in the midst of security and health threats in those areas, a Palace official said. It was reported that the Department of National Defense made a recommendation for the pullout of Filipino peacekeepers in Golan Heights and Liberia because of increasing tensions in the Middle East and the spread of […]
