WIDER SCOPE. Members of PhilHealth's "Konsulta" package can now enjoy a wider option as PhilHealth has partnered with 18 public health centers in Davao City. PhilHealth officer Johanna Blason (in photo) said Monday (June 13, 2022) the agency is partnering with private facilities to offer a more expanded version of the package. (Contributed Photo) DAVAO CITY-The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) now has 18 accredited public health service providers in Davao City which cater to their "Konsultang Sulit at Tama" package. PhilHealth-11 public relations officer Johanna Blason said Monday the package is an expansion of primary care benefits which is newly implemented, to cover all Filipinos as mandated by the Universal Health Care Law. "This is in response to the demand to have outpatient health services. So we do not have to wait until our health becomes worse until we can avail of PhilHealth services in the hospital," Blason said in a pre
Published April 5, 2021, 5:17 PM
DAVAO CITY – Eight vendors and one health worker tested positive for COVID-19 during “surveillance testing” at the Agdao Public Market where around 300 individuals had been subjected to reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test last week, Mayor Sara Duterte here said Monday.
Hundreds of vendors in Agdao Market, Davao City undergo Covid- 19 tests as part of the local government’s “surveillance swabbing.” The “surveillance swabbing,” which will also be conducted in “high-risk” areas of the city, also aims to jack up the daily tests from 600 to 1,000 daily to capture individuals who are positive of Covid-19.(Keith Bacongco / MANILA BULLETIN)
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+ April 05, 2021 NINE vendors of the Agdao Public Market and a health worker tested positive for the coronavirus in a recent surveillance testing by the Davao City Health Office (CHO), Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio said on Monday, April 5, 2021.
Duterte-Carpio said in a radio interview that the city started its first surveillance swabbing last week in Agdao, wherein 300 were tested.
The mayor said all of them were asymptomatic, including the health worker from Agdao Health Center, who recently received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
The mayor said the city also conducted mass swabbing at Bankerohan Public Market on Monday.