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                    [Title] => Marinduque gears up for mercury-free health care
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In a continuous bid to make the Philippines 100-percent mercury-free, Health Care Without Harm-Southeast Asia (HCWH-SEA) recently turned over non-mercurial thermometers to the province of Marinduque, which sits at the heart of the country.

[DatePublished] => 2011-11-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 623838 [Title] => Envi-health group demands fair share of budget [Summary] =>

Health Care Without Harm-Southeast Asia(HCWH-SEA) recently asked members of the House of Representatives (HOR) Committee on Appropriations to push the Department of Health to report on the still unreleased 2008 and 2009 envi-health budget.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 601682 [Title] => Group raises alarm over plan to revive incinerators [Summary] =>

Calling it "revival of the unfittest," an environmental health group, Health Care Without Harm-Southeast Asia (HCWH-SEA), has raised alarm over the proposal to revive the use of incinerators by the Department of Health.

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 504977 [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 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 467954 [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 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => The Good News [SectionUrl] => the-good-news [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 438112 [Title] => Civic groups sign statement to protect consumers versus toxic chemicals [Summary] =>

More than 60 civic organizations have signed the Citizens’ Statement for Consumer Protection against Toxic Chemicals in a bid to change the way toxic chemicals are produced and used.

[DatePublished] => 2009-02-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 430623 [Title] => Treatment facility needed for Baguio hospital wastes [Summary] =>

The Health Care Without Harm-Southeast Asia (HCWH-SEA) has asked the Baguio City government to speed up the purchase of a “more efficient” treatment technology for the city’s infectious hospital wastes.

[DatePublished] => 2009-01-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 373050 [Title] => Plastic chemicals migrate from jars to human body [Summary] => 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 [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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