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[Title] => In less than a year: Capitol doctors up from 177 to 303
[Summary] => The number of doctors deployed across Cebu provincial government-run hospitals has surged by 71 percent in less than a year, rising from 177 in July 2025 to 303 as of April 15, 2026, according to Capitol data.
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[Title] => Angel Companions
[Summary] => I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way. — Exodus 23:20
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[Title] => Public shaming
[Summary] => A number of Filipino doctors have been in the news for alleged unethical practices, involving among others ownership of shares in pharmaceutical companies, prescribing and selling branded medicines and drugs, and the imposition of excessive doctors’ fees.
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[Title] => For provincial and district hospitals: 78 doctors needed
[Summary] => Amid an acute shortage of healthcare professionals in provincial and district hospitals, Cebu Governor Pamela Baricuatro has ordered the immediate hiring of 78 medical doctors.
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[Title] => Doctors’ group finds 1,280 Tondo residents with TB
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[Title] => South Korea says will not punish striking doctors
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[Title] => EDITORIAL - Doctors doing business
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[Title] => Marcos signs laws opening new medical colleges in five provinces
[Summary] => President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has signed into law bills establishing five new college of medicine programs in different state universities across the country, some of which are set to be the first public medical schools in their respective regions.
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[Title] => Surgeon’s death, ‘unjust’ conviction stir up doctors
[Summary] => Doctors are up in arms over the conviction and death behind bars of orthopedic surgeon Dr. Benigno Agbayani Jr., with one group claiming in a Change.org petition that he had been “wrongly accused and convicted” of malpractice after a patient complained of post-operative site infection.
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[Title] => Surgeon’s death, ‘unjust’ conviction stir up doctors
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