Groups opposed to the privatization of the Philippine Orthopedic Center (POC) warned that the move, while modernizing the state-run hospital, could mean the end of free services to some 140,000 indigent patients treated there each year.
Nelson Mandela is making “steady progress” while being treated for a recurring lung infection and he had a full breakfast on Friday, South African authorities said.
Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa’s first black president, has been admitted to a hospital with a recurring lung infection, South Africa said Thursday.
A 75-year-old Japanese man died after 25 hospitals refused to admit him to their emergency rooms 36 times over two hours, citing lack of beds or doctors to treat him, an official said Tuesday.
A professional singer who was robbed and wounded in an attack in Mandaluyong City last week is bent on filing charges against the management of the private hospital where he was treated after he accused them of giving out his personal information, including his address, to media.
A family spokesman said Friday that former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, who has been hospitalized for more than a month, “continues to improve” but remained in intensive care at a Texas hospital.
A CEBU City hospital lost P50,000 in cash, two gadgets worth at least P32,000 to burglars last Sunday.
A Sydney radio station at the heart of the British royal prank call scandal on Monday said it tried to contact the London hospital five times to discuss what it had recorded before going to air.
Two Australian radio presenters who duped a nurse at a London hospital which treated Prince William’s pregnant wife Catherine have been taken off air as they face public fury after the woman was found dead.
A nurse at the hospital which treated Prince William’s pregnant wife Catherine was found dead on Friday, days after being duped by a hoax call from an Australian radio station, the hospital said.
Starting next month, residents of Valenzuela City who seek medical attention need not worry about insufficient beds or flash floods entering the city hospital.
AN emergency hotline for Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) and district hospitals in Cebu is being considered by the Capitol in partnership with Smart Communications.
The provincial government of Northern Samar is in search of funds for a P400-million hospital that it plans to turn over to the private sector.
