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                    [ArticleID] => 1485158
                    [Title] => Budget allocation 41% higher in 2016: DOH to recruit 15,000 nurses
                    [Summary] => 

The Department of Health will be hiring 15,000 nurses for the Nurse Deployment Project (NDP), formerly RNHeals, next year.

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-05 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1445687 [AuthorName] => Kristine B. Quintas/NSA [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1313970 [Title] => Ona orders review of ‘doctors to barrios’ program [Summary] =>

Health Secretary Enrique Ona has ordered a review of the Department of Health’s Doctors to the Barrios Program (DTBP), saying that it has been abused by local government leaders.

[DatePublished] => 2014-04-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20140421/health-seccretary-enrique-ona.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 330094 [Title] => A revolution of hope [Summary] => He probably doesn’t know it, but Tony Meloto of Gawad Kalinga’s speech before the 2006 graduating classes of Ateneo de Manila University is being spread around via the internet. A statement he made is considered noteworthy. He said: "I honor the nameless and unrecognized workers and heroes of other initiatives like Leaders for Health and other NGOs and case-oriented groups who love this country. Today there are tens of thousands of them . . . tomorrow there will be millions. Together we will build a slum-free, squatter-free, crime-free Philippines. . . [DatePublished] => 2006-04-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 215231 [Title] => Ateneo project uplifts rural health situation [Summary] => A holistic approach to alleviate health problems in rural communities has yielded encouraging results since its initiation over a year ago.

Developed by the Health Unit of the Ateneo Graduate School of Business, the Leaders for Health Project (LHP) is being conducted in partnership with the Department of Health through the Doctors to the Barrios Program and Pfizer Inc., through its Pfizer Foundation.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 190742 [Title] => A doctor’s mission nobly accomplished [Summary] => Former Secretary of Health Juan Flavier, now a senator, initiated the Doctors to the Barrios Program which is being diligently carried out by the current Secretary of Health Manuel H. Dayrit.

Certain medical graduates shirk the required two-year barrio stint, fearful of primitive living conditions. What a shame! What a pity! Through their duplicity these new graduates will never know what invaluable experience they are missing or have missed by evading their medical duties.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135822 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 155426 [Title] => ‘Books for the Barrios’ plan backed [Summary] => To uplift the quality of education in the country and provide Filipinos with quality learning materials, Las Piñas Rep. Cynthia Villar is pushing a bill dubbed "Books for the Barrios Program" that will give young people in far-flung barangays access to textbooks and various literature.

In a press statement, Villar stressed that despite the proliferation of computers and modern modes of acquiring information in cities, students in the countryside "seriously lack" basic learning materials like books.
[DatePublished] => 2002-03-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 142752 [Title] => Mirant, DOE ink pacts with rural cooperatives [Summary] => Mirant Philippines Corp. through its social development arm, Mirant Philippines Foundation, has signed with the Department of Energy and representatives of 45 electric cooperatives a memorandum of agreement to signal the start of the electrification of 1,000 unenergized barangays in Luzon and some parts of Mindanao.
[DatePublished] => 2001-12-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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