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In 2019, the National Audit Report on Health Care Waste Management (HCWM) pointed out that health care waste and solid waste management is a major social and environmental challenge in Sri Lanka which needs urgent attention.
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AMID the plan of private hospitals to disengage from the state health insurer, the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) on Tuesday vowed to pay hospital claims worth P25.45 billion within six months through its Debit-Credit Payment Method (DCPM). During the briefing of the House Committee on Health chaired by Quezon…
The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) on Tuesday, Jan. 11, pledged to settle all the unpaid claims of private hospitals within six months amid threats of some medical facilities to disengage with the state-run corporation.
During a House Committee on Health hearing chaired by Quezon
COVID-19 Response and WASH Lessons Learned in Bangladesh
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• As of 14 November 2020, there have been 430,496 positive cases, 347,849 recoveries, and 6,173 deaths across the country.
• Since the start of the pandemic, UNICEF and the Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) have ensured the continuity of safe water for seven million people (including four million women and girls) out of a target of 10 million people.
• Sustaining behavior-change programms is necessary to continue good handwashing practices as well as scale up innovations in handwashing stations.
• Systematic monitoring and reporting on water quality and handwashing practices in rural and urban areas remains a constraint.