Daily Archives: January 30, 2020

Hire former leprosy patients — doc

posted January 30, 2020 at 11:00 pm byRio N. Araja A physician from the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital on Thursday urged the Department of Labor and Employment as well as local governments to consider the employment of those who have already been treated and completely cured of leprosy. At the World Neglected Tropical Disease forum […]

Highly infectious skin disease lurks anew in poor villages in PH

By: Cathy Cañares Yamsuan – @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:48 AM January 30, 2020 A tropical skin disease thought to have been eradicated, or at least controlled, by medical experts in the Philippines in the 1970s continues to lurk in the remotest villages in Mindanao, endangering very young children who are most susceptible to communicable ailments. The World Health […]