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Statement of the Council for Health and Development on the attack against Dr. Barroquillo
The Council for Health and Development, the national organization of more than 70 community-based health programs in the Philippines, strongly condemns another act of violence against a doctor on February 3, 2024 and enjoins the family, friends, colleagues, and patients in calling for justice and immediate investigation. Dr. Sharmaine Barroquillo, a physician working in Sultan…
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Without freedom of expression, the right to health is at risk
In a meeting yesterday, 23 January 2024, representatives of health civil society organizations joined other groups in a dialogue with Ms. Irene Khan, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression (FoOE), during her official country visit to the Philippines. Dr. Edelina De la…
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Reviving Community Health: Basic health skills training of future CHWs recommences in Guimba, Nueva Ecija
The staff and volunteers of the Council for Health and Development (CHD), in partnership with the Nueva Ecija Community-Based Health Program (NE-CBHP), conducted a two-day training at Brgy. Casongsong, Guimba, Nueva Ecija on November 18 and 19, 2023. The training consisted of a lecture on the signs and symptoms of common diseases such as cough…
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CHD, CPRH together with various sectors and organizations staged a protest action in front of the Senate of the Philippines against budget cuts on health, education and other social services.
As the 2024 national budget deliberations in the Senate started, the Council for Health and Development and Coalition for People’s Right to Health –among the co-convenors of the Coalition for Health Budget Increase (CHBI) — together with various sectors and organizations staged a protest action in front of the Senate of the Philippines on Thursday,…
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National organization of community-based health programs join various organizations in condemning the bombing of hospitals in Palestine
Quezon City, Philippines – Various sectors and organizations including the Council for Health and Development hold a protest action in Boy Scout Circle, Timog Ave., Quezon City on Wednesday, Oct. 18 against the ongoing bombing in Gaza by US-backed Israeli government. The Zionist government drop bombs and missiles in Gaza, destroying homes, hospitals, schools and…
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Position paper on the health sector’s call to increase health budget for 2024
We, the Coalition for Health Budget Increase (CHBI), composed of unions, chapters and individual health workers in the public and private sectors, community-based health organizations, health professionals and students nationwide are deeply concerned on the proposed 2024 health budget. We are requesting your good office and committee to review and increase the minuscule allocation of…
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Intervention of the Council for Health and Development in the 54th Session of UN Human Rights Council
The Council for Health and Development, through the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs of the World Council of Churches, delivered an oral intervention through video in the interactive dialogue on economic, social and cultural rights, and COVID-19 recovery in the 54th Session of UN Human Rights Council on September 18, 2023. Full video…
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Health groups call for immediate and independent investigation of DOH’s P7.431 billion worth of expired medicines
With the Department of Health’s (DOH) wastage of P7.431 billion worth of medicines, drugs, and other inventory as flagged by the Commission on Audit recently, the Council for Health and Development and the Coalition for People’s Right to Health today expressed how inefficiencies in a faulty system aggravate inequality that lead to pain, suffering, or…
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Physicians urge PRC to revoke the professional license of Dr. Lorraine Marie T. Badoy
Manila – Medical doctors trooped to the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) in Paredes St., Sampaloc, Manila today to attend the pre-trial hearing for their complaint filed before the Commission versus Dr. Lorraine Marie T. Badoy for her malicious statements against Dr. Ma. Natividad “Naty” Castro, a licensed physician and community medical practitioner, by calling Dr.…
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Message of solidarity of the Council for Health and Development to the 54th anniversary of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines
What more can we say to you but “thank you”? On your fifty-fourth year, no words can ever capture how your selfless work changed so many lives and bore men and women of faith to walk paths less travelled — without fear or question. Because you led by example that there is nothing to fear…
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The recognition of our BHW’s role and sacrifice in our public health system must go beyond the grandiloquence
“More than the grandiloquence (rhetoric) and optic, the recognition for our Barangay Health Workers should translate to immediate and concrete socio-economic benefits in return for their years of commitment and hard work for our people.” This was the Council for Health and Development’s reaction to Sen. Bong Go’s Senate Bill No. 427 or the Barangay…
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Position paper on the proposed House Bill 290 or the E-Health Systems and Services in support of Universal Health Care using Information and Communications Technology
The Council for Health and Development, a national organization of community-based health programs in the Philippines, would like to thank the House of Representatives for its acknowledgement of the Constitution’s provision on the people’s right to health. While it is high time to maximize the benefits of technology to make healthcare available and accessible, especially…
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In Philippines, a hospital serves people on the peripheries
This article is from Global Sisters Report, written by Sr. Edita Eslopor, a member of CHD Board of Trustees. Original article can be found here: https://www.globalsistersreport.org/columns/philippines-hospital-serves-people-peripheries The heart of health care is reaching out to offer relief and well-being to all people, especially the deprived, the underserved — those on the periphery. When we cure,…
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After lifting EO7: Level up government’s role in public health
From Inquirer’s Letter To The Editor. Link: https://opinion.inquirer.net/165060/after-lifting-eo7-level-up-governments-role-in-public-health The Council for Health and Development (CHD) believes that the government should substantially address key concerns in the health system coinciding with the lifting of the pandemic-induced state of public health emergency (Executive Order No. 7) and its responsibility in making science-backed and pro-people public health interventions…
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As the state of public health emergency is lifted, CHD demands level-up of government role in public health
The Council for Health and Development (CHD) believes that the government should substantially address key concerns in the health system coinciding with the lifting of the pandemic-induced state of public health emergency (EO 7) and its responsibility in making science-backed and pro-people public health interventions be realized to its fullest. “Apart from low hospital bed…
Council for Health and Development (CHD) 