MANILA –Team Unity senatorial candidates want to speed up the construction of more public hospitals in the regions, the improvement of the facilities and quality of services of existing hospitals, and the formation of a Philippine Medical Academy that will produce more medical doctors, to enable the government to meet the growing health needs of the country’s booming population.
MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo called on the country?s physicians today to join her in efforts to make economic prosperity, social justice and peace and security a reality “for a new modernizing Philippines.”
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MANILA — Team Unity senatorial candidates support the “parallel importation” of low-priced drugs, as a way to expand the poor’s access to cheaper medicine and health care.
DAVAO CITY, Philippines — Davao Teen Center (DTC), together with the Family Planning Organization of the Philippines (FPOP), demanded the local candidates of Davao City to include Reproductive Health (RH) policies as their top priority in their legislative agenda.
Jamail Lunar Macla, Youth Coordinator of DTC, pointed that this has been a long time struggle of young people in the city that the problem in reproductive health must be prioritized since there are no comprehensive local legislative order to arrest the said problem of the city.
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MANILA, Philippines — International agency, Oxfam urges the Intellectual Property Office
(IPO) to cancel the patent of Pfizer on anti-hypertension drug,
Norvasc in the Philippines following the recent decision of the US
Court of Appeals nullifying the patent granted to Pfizer for
amlodipine besylate, Norvasc’s active ingredient.
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