Hypertension, known as the silent killer, affects 41.3 million employed Filipinos today.
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The Department of Health today reiterated its call to parents and caregivers to strictly monitor their children and prevent them from lighting a firecrackers and fireworks as statistics reveal that most firecracker victims reported belong to the less than 15 years age group (70 cases or 81%).
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Ear, nose and throat infections are very common. The symptoms are usually relatively mild, but infections can sometimes cause problems that need to be treated by an ENT specialist.
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In the Philippines, we celebrate December 6 of every year as National Health Emergency Preparedness Day by the virtue of Proclamation No. 705 series of 1995.
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The first AIDS case in the Philippines was recorded in 1984, with the death of a foreign national from pneumonia. In 1987, the Department of Health established the HIV/AIDS Registry, a passive form of reporting system, to help monitor the HIV epidemic in the country.
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