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[Title] => DOH: Mercury spilled at Fabella hospital
[Summary] => Forty patients were moved from the pediatric ward at the Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital after mercury spilled from a broken container in a storage room adjacent to the ward last Aug. 8, the Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday.
[DatePublished] => 2013-08-11 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1804896
[AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo
[SectionName] => Metro
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[ArticleID] => 919124
[Title] => “Green and Healthy” hospitals pushed
[Summary] => Cebu City is slowly catching up towards having a green and healthy hospital services.
[DatePublished] => 2013-03-13 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 0
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1386325
[AuthorName] => Jessa Agua
[SectionName] => Cebu News
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[ArticleID] => 674869
[Title] => Proper medicalwastedisposal pushed
[Summary] => In line with the implementation of the government’s measles vaccination program, environmental-health group Health Care Without Harm—Southeast Asia (HCWH—SEA) and Department of Health (DOH) introduced alternatives to treat and dispose wastes generated during the campaign.
[DatePublished] => 2011-04-11 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1250083
[AuthorName] => Deborah Mae C. Fortich
[SectionName] => Cebu News
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[Title] => Security forces join Miss Earth beauties in post-election clean-up
[Summary] => Security forces yesterday took part in a post-election activities by cleaning up the mess left by last Monday’s historic vote.
[DatePublished] => 2010-05-13 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805309
[AuthorName] => Alexis Romero
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[Title] => Quezon City joins global drive vs mercury in medical devices
[Summary] => The Quezon City government joined yesterday a global campaign to phase out and eliminate mercury-based medical devices in health care facilities and households in the city.
[DatePublished] => 2009-09-15 00:00:00
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[Title] => Health Care Without Harm and nurses partner to improve system
[Summary] => MANILA, Philippines – In celebration of International Nurses Day, Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) and nurses all over the world are partnering to create a cleaner, healthier and more environment-friendly health care system.
[DatePublished] => 2009-05-17 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
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[SectionName] => The Good News
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[Title] => Global campaign on to replace mercury-based thermometers
[Summary] => The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) launched yesterday a global initiative to replace more than 70 percent of mercury-based thermometer and blood pressure devices around the world.
[DatePublished] => 2008-12-08 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1804896
[AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo
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[Title] => Alarming practice
[Summary] => Last June 30, channel 7’s Imbestigador featured a very serious and alarming practice of health care waste disposal of some major hospitals in Metro Cebu.
[DatePublished] => 2007-07-21 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
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[SectionName] => Letters to the Editor
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[Title] => Plastic chemicals migrate from jars to human body
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Those functional plastic containers used for packaging and storing foods, candy wrappers, juice bottles, among others, have invaded every nook and cranny of everybody’s kitchen worldwide. It is hard to imagine life without them.
However harmless they may seem, these ubiquitous plastic containers are serious health risks, according to Merci Ferrer, Asia coordinator of Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), a global campaigner for environmentally responsible health care.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-03 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1724661
[AuthorName] => Rudy Brul
[SectionName] => Agriculture
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[Title] => DOH asked to check alleged ills of mercury in medicines
[Summary] => A Provincial Board member has requested Health Secretary Francisco Duque to verify the warning of an international group on the imprudent use of mercury in vaccines and medical or dental health care devices, and see if it needs government action.
PB member Jose Maria Gastardo recently filed a proposed measure requesting the DOH to validate the warning, issued by the Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) group, which has been the gist of its "Making Medicine Mercury-Free" program since 1998.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-06 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
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[SectionName] => Cebu News
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September 15, 2009 - 12:00am
