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Friday, December 16, 2016
RxBox: Advancing Community Health Care
WHAT IS RxBOX?
RxBox is a multi-component program (biomedical device, electronic medical record system and telemedicine training) designed to provide better access to life-saving health care services in isolated and disadvantaged communities nationwide. It is one among the Department of Science and Technology’s efforts for a “Smarter Philippines”. It is also an ICT (Information...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
RXBOX’S ECG SAVES COST IN MALIBCONG
ABRA — In some areas of the Philippines, patients need to travel hours through vehicles, boat, or even by walking, just in order to visit the nearest rural health unit. It would take even longer for them to reach a hospital or a higher care facility equipped for more specialized services. The sad thing is a handful of these patients spend so much in travelling to a town...
Friday, December 9, 2016
Cañao: Heart of the Cordilleran Culture
Cañao, familiar to the lowland culture as the a community celebration of the
Igorots, is a ritual of animal sacrifice, feasting and dancing performed
for healing, thanksgiving, entertainment and for asking for a bountiful
harvest. It is usually performed during native feasts or celebrations in the
highlands of the Cordilleras–in the Luzon...
Thursday, December 8, 2016
FEATURE: Inayud, battling the desolate state of health services
TINOC, IFUGAO — In a far-flung village of this town, a mother cries for help as she is expecting her water bag to break any hour in the evening. Her women neighbors call for the able bodied men to prepare the ayud or the hammock made of blanket fastened to sturdy wood or bamboo. They will transport the mother by way of the hammock to the barangay health station. Women in the...
Sunday, December 4, 2016
IKSP as agenda of Research
The Regional Unified Health Research Agenda (RUHRA), a major document produced by the Research Management Committee of the Cordillera Regional Health Research and Development Consortium, serves as the region's template for health research and development efforts. This RUHRA specified the health research areas and topics that need to be addressed for 2014-2016. It was launched...
Saturday, December 3, 2016
The Legendary Ones
This is a portrait of an elderly woman at the Botanical Garden of Baguio City. She represents a resilient group of Filipinos from the mountain regions of Luzon who are exemplary for being hardworking. Their cultural contributions to the country are legendary and can in no way be undermined.
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