RIGHT TO HEALTH
Landgrabbing is backed up by Oplan Bayanihan in Pantabangan Igorot Communities; Lucio Tan no-show at hearing of charges filed by families of Eton victims; Filipinos concerned about nuclear emergency in Japan; Morong 43 file suit vs GMA, police
Rights groups protests over recent killing in Bicol; Hospital Union Files Notice of Strike Today; Happy International Women's Day! ; New poverty methodology is detached from real situation (Use of food bundle questioned)
Alliance of Health Workers | PRESS RELEASE |References: Jossel I. Ebesate, AHW National President, Mobile number: 0918-9276381; Robert T. Mendoza, AHW Secretary-General, Mobile number: 0932-4649757 | The Coalition for Health Budget Increase (CHBI) claims its initial victory in the fight for higher health budget when the House of Representatives approved on its October 11 final reading the P200M addition to DOH budget and P400M for Government-Owned and Controlled Corporation Hospitals for 2012.
Clarizza Singson | Karapatan Negros | Karapatan Negros condemns the false, misleading, malicious and deceitful claim of Lt. Col. Ramil Bitong that together with his troops, they joined the Medical-Relief Mission in Sitio Calabaclabacan, Brgy. Trinidad, Guihulngan City last July 17-18, 2011. The relief and medical mission is part of the NEGROS SOLIDARITY HEALTH AND RELIEF MISSION simultaneously held in Escalante City, Negros Occidental as part of the Filipino American Health Workers Association (FAHWA) annual health service to the rural folk in the Philippines. They were joined as sponsors by the local peasant organization KAUGMAON, Negros Island Health Integrated Program (NIHIP), Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc (VPHCS), Community Empowerment Resource Network (CERNET), BAYAN MUNA, Franciscan Mountain Clinics, Iglesia Filipina Independiente together with Karapatan. Mayor Reyes of Guihulngan also joined the activity by providing four (4) vehicles to doctors, dentists, nurses and other development workers. A total of 892 (dental – 80, circumcision – 41, medical – 561, feeding-60, relief-150) farmers benefitted the said activity.
For Reference: Roberto Villaram, President, Bacolod Our Lady of Mercy Specialty Hospital Employees Union | Mobile phone: 0949.942.8940 (Smart) | 0915.338.0721 (Globe) | The Bacolod Our Lady of Specialty Hospital Employees Union (BOLMSHEU) urges National Labor Relations Commission to resolve Union busting and illegal dismissal cases involving 7 union officers and 6 members because the union functions to its members are put in jeopardy especially during collective bargaining negotiation.
AGHAM | PRESS RELEASE | March 12, 2011 | Following reports that the nuclear plant in Japan around 250 kilometers northeast of Tokyo had explosions and vented smoke to the environment, Philippine activist groups under the No to BNPP Revival!
News Release | For reference: Roberto Villaram, President Bacolod Our Lady of Mercy Specialty Hospital Employees Union | Mobile phone numbers: +63915-3380-721 (Globe) | +63949-9428-940 (Smart) | The Bacolod Our Lady of Mercy Specialty Hospital Employees Union filed a Notice of Strike at 2:15 p.m.
A PRESS RELEASE | Reference: Greg G. Ratin, Chairman, BAYAN-Negros – 09214550046 | It’s been 25 years when the Filipino People ended the US – Marcos Dectatorship. It was tagged as EDSA People Power which is known to the whole world and put into power, Mrs. Corazon Cojuanco-Aquino, the mother of the President Noynoy Aquino. This was the culmination of almost two (2) decades of people’s struggles after Martial Law has been declared. BAYAN was a big part in toppling down this dictatorship.
HRDS head documentor cries foul over ‘mission order’, fabricated charges. DAVAO CITY – The head documentor of the Human Rights Documentation System Project (HRDS) in Southern Mindanao
