HEALTH ADVISORY
MERS-Corona Virus UPDATE: Saturday, April 19, 2014: In a press conference on Saturday, DOH Secretary Enrique Ona said further tests on the Filipino male nurse showed he is not infected. The urged OFWs coming home from...
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Air Ambulance – not in the Philippines
Last Friday we had a medical emergency here in Camiguin and needed immediately an Air Ambulance. No problem I thought, because 8 out of 11 listed air charter companies offer “Air Ambulance”, “Patient Transport”,...
Solar Power – it’s more fun! Is it?
You may have discovered that Silent Gardens is more and more using solar power. Today we discovered a dragonfly getting energy on one of our solar outlets … … but there is a big...
Traveler’s health in the Philippines
We would like to inform you that our “Health page” is now adapted to the new website layout. All new pages are readable on desktop devices, tablets and smartphones. Click on the picture above...
Large solar power plant to rise in Palawan
Palawan will soon be home to the Philippines’ largest micro-grid solar power plant, generating 1.3 megawatts of clean renewable energy. Costing PHP 325 million, the plant will have 5,000 solar panels that will provide...
Long Rotational Brownouts
I am writing this article with solar power. All over Mindanao long rotational brownouts are making life a bit more difficult. 100-MW power barge moored at Brgy. San Roque, Maco, Compostela Valley in Mindanao...
After Super Typhoon HAIYAN / Yolanda – find your family
Meanwhile we all know what happened especially in Samar and Leyte and lesser in the central Visayas. If you are missing somebody or would like to get in contact, try one of the links...
Fire Dancing in Boracay
GMA NEWS reported today that local government wants to regulate fire dancing in Boracay. The government of Malay is particularly concerned that the fuel used by fire dancers leaves black stains on Boracay’s pristine white...
Chikungunya outbreak in Antique (Panay) confirmed
The Department of Health (DOH) yesterday confirmed an outbreak of the Chikungunya virus in Patnongon, Antique on Panay island with 313 cases as of April this year. Chikungunya is a viral disease that is...
Milky Island – Camiguin
MAMBAJAO, Camiguin, June 7 (PIA) — Farmers as well as children will soon benefit from a new dairy farm, expected to open this month in the province of Camiguin. The first on the island...
Still red tide in three bays in Mindanao
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) warns of eating of shellfish caught in Dumanquillas Bay in Zamboanga del Sur province, Murcielagos Bay in the provinces of Zamboanga del Norte and Misamis Occidental, and...
Swiss cop helps children in CdO
Thomas Oliver Kellenberger was an ordinary policeman in Switzerland. But not to children working in the garbage dumps in Cagayan de Oro. Thomas Kellenberger when he still had been a policeman Kellenberger, 27, quit...
Number of Dengue cases decreases
The number of Dengue cases decreased by 60% in January 2012, the Department of Health (DOH) informed Thursday. In their report, the DOH said there were 4,753 dengue cases reported in different sentinel hospitals...
Dengue is still a DANGER
The Philippines Department of Health reported: 18,705 Dengue cases all over the country, from January 1, 2007 to September 1, 2007. 119 deaths with a case mortality rate of 196. 77% of cases were...
Septic Infection
I have ever told that one should be careful with small skin scratches. I did not! (See also our MEDICAL advice page ) I rubbed an itching mosquito-bite and bingo! The small wound infected with...
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