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DOH: Mercury spilled at Fabella hospital

By Sheila Crisostomo | August 11, 2013 - 12:00am

Forty patients were moved from the pediatric ward at the Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital after mercury spilled from a broken container in a storage room adjacent to the ward last Aug. 8, the Department of Health...

Metro

“Green and Healthy” hospitals pushed

By Jessa Agua | March 13, 2013 - 12:00am

Cebu City is slowly catching up towards having a green and healthy hospital services.

Cebu News

Proper medicalwastedisposal pushed

By Deborah Mae C. Fortich | April 11, 2011 - 12:00am

In line with the implementation of the government’s measles vaccination program, environmental-health group Health Care Without Harm—Southeast Asia (HCWH—SEA) and Department of Health (DOH) introduced...

Cebu News

Security forces join Miss Earth beauties in post-election clean-up

By Alexis Romero | May 13, 2010 - 12:00am

Security forces yesterday took part in a post-election activities by cleaning up the mess left by last Monday’s historic vote.

Headlines

Quezon City joins global drive vs mercury in medical devices

September 15, 2009 - 12:00am

The Quezon City government joined yesterday a global campaign to phase out and eliminate mercury-based medical devices in health care facilities and households in the city.

Health Care Without Harm and nurses partner to improve system

May 17, 2009 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines – In celebration of International Nurses Day, Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) and nurses all over the world are partnering to create a cleaner, healthier and more environment-friendly health...

The Good News

Global campaign on to replace mercury-based thermometers

By Sheila Crisostomo | December 8, 2008 - 12:00am

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) launched yesterday a global initiative to replace more than 70 percent of mercury-based thermometer and blood pressure devices around the...

Headlines

Alarming practice

July 21, 2007 - 12:00am

Last June 30, channel 7’s Imbestigador featured a very serious and alarming practice of health care waste disposal of some major hospitals in Metro Cebu.

Letters to the Editor

Plastic chemicals migrate from jars to human body

By Rudy Brul | December 3, 2006 - 12:00am

Those functional plastic containers used for packaging and storing foods, candy wrappers, juice bottles, among others, have invaded every nook and cranny of everybody’s kitchen worldwide. It is hard...

Agriculture

DOH asked to check alleged ills of mercury in medicines

March 6, 2006 - 12:00am

A Provincial Board member has requested Health Secretary Francisco Duque to verify the warning of an international group on the imprudent use of mercury in vaccines and medical or dental health care devices, and...

Cebu News