Health

As the vanguard who helps patients with Covid-19, the medical staff will receive incentives as promised by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. However, the promised incentives have not yet come down. Chairman of the Indonesian National Nurses Association (PPNI) Harif Fadhilah admitted, if the incentive money promised by President Jokowi for medical personnel, including nurses, had not yet come down. This …

MANILA – The country is already in the middle of its “second wave”, the country’s health chief said on Wednesday. “Actually we are now on the second wave. We are now in the lower part of the second wave.” “There was a very small wave last few days of January, and then there was a lull, and then we had …

Phnom Penh – Cambodia said on Saturday that the last of 122 people in the country who tested positive for the coronavirus has been discharged from medical treatment. The kingdom has detected no new cases of the virus for more than a month. The Health Ministry said that the last patient discharged from the the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital was a …

The government’s COVID-19 center has insisted the lower number of new COVID-19 cases announced each day is not due to an alleged lesser number of tests, while health authorities are working to increase test numbers according to the situation. The Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration’s (CCSA) Spokesman Dr Taweesin Visanuyothin, has stressed that the drop in the daily number of …

SAN FERNANDO, PAMPANGA – Chinese biotech firm BGI group launched its own molecular and diagnostic laboratory in San Fernando, Pampanga to help boost the country’s Covid-19 testing capacity. According to the Chinese Embassy, the new laboratory aims to provide additional 3,000 more testings to help Philippines to increase its detection capacity of the virus. BGI’s Molecular and Diagnostic Pathology Laboratory, …

Dr Taweesilp Visanuyothin, a spokesman for the health department in Thailand has said health officials logged only three new covid-19 coronavirus cases Thursday. On Wednesday Thailand logged only 1 case also only 1 on Tuesday. Thailand’s total confirmed covid-19 cases as of today is 2,992, with only 55 deaths. Over the past 24 hours, 11 more patients were discharged from …

The public health department office in Southern Thailand’s Yala Province has verified 40 new covid-19 cases after thorough testing. The cases include those recently returned for Ramadan from neighbouring countries. Provincial health department chief Songkran Maichum said on Sunday that intense testing since April 20 had uncovered 40 new cases, now confirmed in lab results. Four new cases were found in …

The pandemic virus has challenged medical researchers in stepping up to new strategies to combat COVID-19. One of these is the “Stem cell treatment, also known as regenerative medicine, uses stem cells or their variants to facilitate the healing process to diseased, damaged, or wounded tissue. It is the next step of organ transplantation which uses cells that are small …

Vaccines and drugs against COVID-19 are currently being researched and developed. Scientists are also trying other alternatives that are more practical and brief by using the blood plasma of patients recovering from COVID-19 as a ‘medicine’. The Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) for Jakarta region, expressed willingness to collect blood of recovered COVID-19 patients for trial of treatment using convalescent blood …

PUTRAJAYA – Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said today that Malaysia has not had Covid-19 patients discharged from hospitals have experienced re-infection of the disease. On his daily Covid-19 press conference, he said that of the total of 4,032 patients were discharged from the hospital since the disease were first identified. “So far, no reinfection. We do have maybe …