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As of September 2020, the Philippines has a population of nearly 110 million and a population density of 368 per square kilometer. 32% of the population of the Philippines is under 15 years old, and only 22.2% is over 60. In the Philippines, 16.6% of the population lived below the national poverty line in 2018. [8] [9]
The COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 . [4] As of December 30, 2024, there have been 4,173,631 [ 1 ] reported cases, and 66,864 [ 1 ] reported deaths, the fifth highest in Southeast Asia , behind Vietnam , Indonesia ...
Health care in the Philippines has been defined by the World Health Organization as "fragmented", meaning there's a large gap between the quality and quantity of health services for the poor and the rich. With different reasons such as low budget, low number of personnel, or general neglect for the poor, the Philippines has always been unable ...
President Duterte during a meeting with members of the IATF-EID at the Matina Enclaves in Davao City in June 2020. The COVID-19 Immunization Program Management Organizational Structure was formed on October 26, 2020, to facilitate the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in the Philippines, however this was replaced by a vaccine cluster within the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of ...
On March 16, Mayor Teodoro announced that around 3,000 testing kits would be procured and the government would partner with Manila Health Tek and the Philippine National Institutes of Health, to test "patients under investigation" (PUIs) and "patients under monitoring" (PUMs) for COVID-19. [146] Field testing was scheduled to begin on March 24.
The Philippines was among the countries which reported cases during the 2022–2023 global outbreak of human mpox caused by the West African clade of the monkeypox virus.The outbreak was first reported in the Philippines when a suspected case was confirmed on July 28, 2022, according to the Department of Health.
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) announced that it would provide ₱30-billion ($581-million) worth of advance payment to its accredited health facilities for health care providers to obtain the liquid capital required to efficiently respond to the crisis. PhilHealth also subsided some of its policies on its members; it ...
The Department of Health (DOH; Filipino: Kagawaran ng Kalusugan) is the executive department of the government of the Philippines responsible for ensuring access to basic public health services by all Filipinos through the provision of quality health care, the regulation of all health services and products.