We need health-centered response to COVID-19 outbreak
PEOPLE are actually waiting for
concrete medical actions like massive free testing in every barangay. They need
information on how to prevent and combat COVID-19.
The current...
Service to the most vulnerable
(We
yield this space to the statement of the Promotion of Church People’s Response
due to its timeliness. – Ed.)
AS QUARANTINE descends upon the
entirety of Metro...
Find, isolate, test and treat
THE WORLD Health Organization (WHO)
has made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.
Pandemic is not a word to use lightly
or...
Self-protection skills
ASIDE from the elderly and those with
underlying medical conditions, the other sectors vulnerable to COVID-19
transmission are children and schools. Actions to be taken must...
Let hope be the antidote to fear
(We
yield this space to the WHO Director-General’s opening remarks at the media
briefing on COVID-19, March 9, 2020 due to its significance. – Ed.)
NOW THAT...
Basic protective measures vs COVID-19
(Due
to its urgency, we yield this space to the World Health Organization’s
coronavirus disease 2019 advice for the public. This can also be accessed at
the...
Putting prime value on public health
PRESIDENT Duterte’s issuance of
Executive Order (EO) No. 106 prohibiting the manufacture, distribution,
marketing, and sale of unregistered and/or adulterated electronic cigarettes
and other related products is...
Do we have enough health workers?
THE THREAT of the novel coronavirus causing the
pneumonia-like disease now called COVID-19 is real, with five cases already confirmed by the
Department of Health. One...
Working women
IT IS ALREADY a challenge to be a
woman in a country that is led by macho-f ascist, misogynistic leaders, but it
is even more difficult...
Abused
WITH a few days before the
International Working Women’s Day (March 8), the Center for Women’s Resources
(CWR) bared the most recent data on violence against...