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Hospital not giving salary for 5 months.

Hospital not giving salary for 5 months.

Filipino doctors and nurses working in one of the hospitals in Jubail KSA are now despairing because salary have not yet been given for the past three months. This is also true for Doctors of other nationalities who have no salary for 4-5 months. Employees of the said hospital are complaining of poor management. In one year not even one staff meeting had been called. The General Manager is rarely seen … Read entire article »

Filed under: Doctors, Glimpse of the past

Americans get most radiation from medical scans

Americans get most radiation from medical scans

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Medical Writer Marilynn Marchione, Ap Medical Writer – Mon Jun 14, 10:59 am ET We fret about airport scanners, power lines, cell phones and even microwaves. It’s true that we get too much radiation. But it’s not from those sources — it’s from too many medical tests. Americans get the most medical radiation in the world, even more than folks … Read entire article »

Filed under: Health News, Most Read, Safety and Rescue

City hall’s lies

I AM one of the 18 (or possibly more) doctors who resigned from the JR Borja General Hospital last month. I am writing to express disgust on a news item aired over ABS-CBN last Monday (July 1, 2009), in which our own mayor, Constantino Jaraula, said the physicians who tendered their resignations did so because they have higher plans for their career. I recalled Mayor Tinnex saying “Kay gusto man sila muadto sa Amerika.” This is a blatant lie that I and my colleagues in the profession cannot allow to perpetuate. It may be good for the mayor and the general public to know that most of those who resigned had immediately taken positions in community-oriented health care services. Some of us are in small-staffed clinics that cater services to the … Read entire article »

Filed under: Health News

J.R. Borja General Hospital Sentiments – An open letter

I am writing this to show my sentiments on the current issue that the Chief of Hospital of J.R. Borja General Hospital in the person of Dr. Dures Tagayuna received an order recalling her to the City Health Office. What’s all the fuzz? Dr. Tagayuna has done more for the Hospital and it’s Personnel and Staff in the past 2 years she served as Chief of Hospital than any of her predecessors who served the same period. She was sweet-talked into running an almost dying institution probably not so much as to save it but more so in the hope of making her a political ally by the way things are going. However, seeing that her being in her present office is not serving IT’S ORIGINAL PURPOSE but rather going in a … Read entire article »

Filed under: Doctors, Hospitals

WELCOME TO PGH, THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL (by virtue of Republic Act 9500, or the UP Charter of 2008)

WELCOME TO PGH, THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL (by virtue of Republic Act 9500, or the UP Charter of 2008) Mabuhay from PGH, the Philippines’ 102-year old national tertiary referral center and teaching hospital of UP Manila (The Health Sciences Center) that includes the UP College of Medicine, UP College of Nursing, UP College of Dentistry and allied colleges. It is the largest government hospital administered by the UP System (not by the Department of Health); occupies 10 hectares of prime Manila real estate, 45 interconnected and stand-alone buildings, and 125,000 square meters of floor area; consists of 19 clinical departments distributed in the in- and outpatient sections, 1500 patient beds (1000 charity, 500 pay and special units); and includes modernized and upgraded service, training and research facilities, the latest of which are … Read entire article »

Filed under: Hospitals

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