Category: Health

CLARK FREEPORT– Bataan Governor Albert Garcia disclosed on Wednesday that the provincial government is allocating at least P25 million next year for the operations of the Bataan General Hospital (BGH) in Balanga City.

Garcia, who was interviewed at the Holiday Inn Clark during the Central Luzon Stakeholders Meeting attended by governors and mayors from October 9 to 10, said the allotment of funds is part of the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Department of Health (DOH) signed earlier this year. The BGH is the frequent refuge of the poor residents of Bataan.

CLARK FREEPORT—Bataan Gov. Albert Garcia disclosed on Wednesday that the provincial government is alloting at least P25 million next year for the operations of the Bataan General Hospital (BGH) in Balanga City.

Garcia, who was interviewed at the Holiday Inn Clark during the Central Luzon Stakeholders Meeting attended by governors and mayors on October 9 and 10, said the allotment of funds is part of the memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Department of Health (DOH) signed earlier this year.

Garcia said the province is committed in the same MOA to shoulder 25 percent of the expenses of the 350-bed BGH for 2014.

MARIVELES, Bataan— Health officials in the province have joined forces to check the Chikungunya outbreak in Mariveles that has already affected more than a hundred people.

Chikungunya is a viral disease that is spread by Aegis aegypti mosquito, the same carrier of dengue. It causes fever, severe joint pain, muscle pain, headache, nausea, fatigue and rash, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

It is often misdiagnosed as dengue as it shares clinical signs with the deadly disease,  WHO documents revealed. Though Chikungunya has no cure, treatment is focused on relieving the symptoms.

BALANGA CITY, Bataan- As the coastal areas of Bataan was hit by red tide phenomemun, the provincial government is readying relief assistance to fishermen severely affected by it.

This was revealed yesterday by  Imelda Nieto, provincial agriculturist, who said that since there are around 611 fishermen, shellfish gatherers and operators in the province displaced from their jobs, she said  that Gov Abet Garcia had instructed them to come up with a relief assistance scheme to  have these affected Bataenos be given relief assistance and livelihood projects.

BALANGA City – The provincial agriculture office on Tuesday afternoon announced the raising of a shellfish ban due to red tide in the whole province of Bataan.

Provincial agriculturist Imelda Inieto said that based on a Shellfish Advisory they received Tuesday from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, gathering, selling, transporting  and eating of shellfish in the province are prohibited.

She said that from 54 milligrams Saxo-Toxin per 100 mg STx shellfish meat last Thursday, the toxin level of samples taken in Orani, Bataan rose to 265 mg STx per 100 mg STx. Tolerable level for shellfish to be safe for eating is 60 mg STx.

This fast emerging educational and commercial city where cigarette smoking has been banned since 2008 set another milestone by launching its local version of the Department of Health’s “Pilipinas Go4Health” movement last Friday July 26,2013 at the Plaza Mayor de Balanga. 

Balanga is the first city in the country to launch this healthy lifestyle campaign. DOH officials led by the famous “dancing” Asec. Eric Tayag, tobacco control program chairperson Asec. Paulyn Rosell-Ubial, regional director Leonita Gorgolon and WHO technical officer Dr. Florante Trinidad graced the occasion organized by Bataan Provincial Governor Albert Garcia & Balanga City Mayor Joet Garcia. 

The Bataan General Hospital (BGH) is starting to gain national fame as other hospitals and health bodies visit the multi-awarded institution to benchmark on its best practices.

The hospital, which recently won the national Red Orchid Award for 100 percent tobacco-free environments, is frequented weekly by hospitals and health offices from all over the country to learn from its efficient system of admission of patients and implementation of policies, as well as its intensified PhilHealth processing system.