Alma Mondragon of Alliance Against AIDS in Mindanao (ALAGAD) on Thursday said that the city needs P133 million budget to implement the program for awareness campaign and treatment of HIV-AIDS. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
As of now, there are about 9, 216 cases of EVD recorded around the world with 4,555 casualties.
Residents here have started publicly airing their worry over the plan of private hospitals to bill in full the patients' hospital expenses leaving the patients to collect by themselves the reimbursements from the office of the Philippine Health Insurance Commission (PhilHealth).
This city lags behind in awareness to prevent the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes the dreaded acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), as the number of HIV-AIDS cases rose in the first quarter of this year.
Costs remain steep for kidney patients such as Alfredo, a 61-year old farmer who was brought by his family all the way from Tulunan, North Cotabato to a private hospital in Davao.