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KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Afghanistan’s health system is on the verge of collapse, a top Red Cross official warned Thursday, saying more than 2,000 health facilities had been shuttered across the conflict-ravaged country. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned that a dire lack of funding was pushing Afghanistan’s health system to the brink. “People might agree to work without salaries for a few more weeks,” Alexander Matheou, IFRC’s Asia […]
Presses COA audit, submission of annual report of PRC on how it utilized gov’t funds (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte warned the Philippine Red Cross to submit to a government audit and give an account of how it had utilized government funds given to them, or he would cut all government transactions with it altogether. In his “Talk to the People” aired on Sept. 11, Duterte also directed the Commission on Audit (COA) […]
Saliva tests at 98 percent efficacy, officials assure https://youtu.be/YCl1EqoA4OI (Eagle News) — The Philippine Red Cross started its drive-thru saliva tests for COVID-19 which it would be conducting in selected malls in Metro Manila. This was made possible with the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with SM Supermalls. More convenient COVID-19 tests would now be made more available to the public at less cost because of this. Test results would also be […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) once again pressed the Department of Health to allow RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 through use of saliva samples, instead of the usual nasopharyngeal swabs, as its officials demonstrated how this was easier, more convenient, less invasive and cheaper. In a pilot test, PRC chair Senator Richard Gordon showed how it is easier to get saliva samples for RT-PCR tests. Only one milliliter of saliva is needed for […]
(Eagle News) – A brief remark by President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday night, Nov. 5, after Health Secretary Francico Duque III made his report on the effect of the stoppage of COVID-19 tests by the Philippine Red Cross last month is causing a stir. “Mukhang pera,” the President said after Duque’s report that the PRC’s decision to stop COVID-19 tests had severely affected COVID-19 tests for OFWs. The PRC stopped its COVID-19 tests when […]
Ni Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Balik operasyon na ang Philippine Red Cross sa pagsasagawa ng COVID-19 test. Natanggap na kasi ng PRC ang P500 million na initial payment ng Philhealth nitong Lunes ng gabi, Oct. 26, May kabuuang utang ang Philhealth na P1.1 billion noong Oct. 15. “We’re preparing a letter, saying we thank you for your payment, but we need you to pay the full amount in accordance with […]
Expresses hope that PRC would continue COVID-19 tests for gov’t (Eagle News) – The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Philhealth) said that it will start paying its debt on Monday, Oct. 26, to the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) for the COVID-19 tests it had conducted. With this development, Philhealth said that it hoped the PRC would continue conducting COVID-19 tests which had affected thousands of returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) Earlier estimates said Philhealth owed […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte made the assurance that the Philippine government will pay the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) which is owed by Philhealth. In his regular address to the nation on Monday night, Oct. 20, President Duterte said that the government will look for the money that will be paid to the Red Cross. The President said that they are still “looking for a way to present the solution” to the Commission […]
by Emily Manuel Contributor, Eagle News AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands (Eagle News) — With no end in sight for the COVID-19 pandemic, I decided to join 391 stranded Filipino seafarers, workers, and tourists in a repatriation flight organized by the Philippine Embassy in the The Hague last July 3, 2020. KL 875 would take us from Amsterdam to Manila via Bangkok in approximately 15 hours and 45 minutes. – Check-in – Schiphol Airport stands eerily quiet. […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) is set to open another bio-molecular laboratory, this time in Cebu City, which is currently still under the stricter protocols of Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) that will build testing capacity in the Central Visayas region, even as it announced plans to open 19 more laboratiories nationwide for COVID-19 testing, PRC had already opened two testing centers in its national headquarters in Mandaluyong City that are both equipped […]
PORT VILA, Vanuatu (AFP) — Vanuatu’s rigid coronavirus lockdown is hindering critical relief efforts to rebuild the island country after it was pummelled by Tropical Cyclone Harold, aid agencies said Saturday. Nearly two weeks after the deadly monster storm barrelled through the South Pacific, local media reported that newly homeless families were still sleeping in the open. Australia, New Zealand and China have rushed in emergency aid but distribution has been hampered by strict quarantine […]
by Nina LARSON Agence France-Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The Red Cross called Friday for increased psychological support to health workers and others fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, warning of rising suicides as a result of pressure and isolation. Countries around the world have taken dramatic measures to try to halt the spread of the virus, which first emerged in China late last year, with more than three billion people now living under lockdown. The demand for […]
