Health authorities are closely monitoring the condition of seven of 15 Filipino OFWs who returned last month from Sierra Leone, in West Africa, where an Ebola outbreak has killed more than 700 people, reports Inquirer.net. Most of the OFWs were construction workers repatriated from Sierra Leone on orders of their employers due to the Ebola outbreak, which has also stricken Guinea and Liberia.
The Department of Health on July 31 reported there were 494 new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases in June 2014, a 15-percent increase compared with the 431 recorded in the same period last year. This brought to a total 2,814 cases this year, with 66 deaths, reports Interaksyon.com.
Filipino community leaders and the Philippine Embassy on June 28 lauded a California-based company for its decision to delete a scene in its customer service training video that negatively portrayed Filipino healthcare workers, reports Inquirer.net. Entitled “It’s a Dog’s World,” the video showed two Filipina healthcare employees gossiping in Tagalog in front of an American patient.
The Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed that a female Filipino nurse in Tripoli, Libya was abducted, raped, and then released July 30, reports Inquirer.net. The Filipino nurse was abducted in front of her residence by four Libyan youths, taken somewhere, raped and then released.
World Bank data showed that alongside the expansion of the Philippines’ gross domestic product (GDP) came the rise in the purchasing power of Filipino consumers, reports Inquirer.net. From a GDP per capita of $1,832 in 2009, it steadily rose until last year, when the Philippine economy grew to second fastest in Asia with a 7.2-percent expansion, the GDP per capita further climbed to $2,765.
A baby girl born early Sunday, July 26, has officially pushed the population of the Philippines to 100 million, highlighting the challenge of providing for more people in the already-impoverished nation, reports Inquirer.net. The child, Jennalyn Sentino, was one of 100 babies born in state hospitals all over the archipelago who received the symbolic designation of “100,000,000th baby.”
After 17 years, the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) Terminal 3 will become fully operational by July 31, announced the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC), reports Inquirer.net.
All Mary Grace Demafeliz could now wish is to have more days to tell her two-year-old son, Dave Gabriel, how much she loved him. But her boy died unexpectedly Monday night, four days after he underwent free heart surgery at the Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, reports ABS-CBN News.
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