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Tag: National Telehealth Center

Floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions: Disaster risk management during COVID

July 27, 2022 by Deina Blancaflor

With the Philippines a hotspot for disasters and the worsening effects of climate change, how can the country’s health sector protect its facilities and frontline workers, especially during a global pandemic? Find out in this week’s episode of UP’s “Stop C.O.V.I.D. Deaths” webinar series, Friday, July 29, 12:00 noon.

How UP tackles teaching, learning in the health sciences in the ‘new normal’

July 20, 2022 by Deina Blancaflor

Given the ever-pressing demand for skilled healthcare professionals, how does UP tackle the challenge of teaching medicine, nursing, and dentistry students in the “new normal”? Find out in this week’s UP “Stop C.O.V.I.D. Deaths” webinar on Friday, July 22, 12:00 noon.

Another surge? UP webinar to talk about COVID-19 updates, rising cases

July 13, 2022 by Deina Blancaflor

COVID-19 cases are again rising, and senior citizens, the immunocompromised, and children under six are still the most vulnerable. What is the course of COVID in children below age six? Find out this Friday, July 15, 12:00 noon, in this week’s episode of UP’s “Stop COVID Deaths” webinar series.

To boost or not to boost? UP webinar to focus on COVID boosters

July 6, 2022 by Deina Blancaflor

Almost 70% of Filipinos have gotten their primary COVID vaccines, but not even half have gotten their first and second booster shots. How do we encourage more people to get booster shots? Do we need boosters in the first place? Find out this Friday, at 12:00 noon, in this week’s UP “Stop COVID Deaths” webinar.

UP “Stop COVID Deaths” webinar takes on public transport in the time of COVID

October 13, 2021 by Deina Blancaflor

With the Delta variant proving highly transmissible, especially in closed spaces, will public transport be safe? Find out in this week’s “Stop COVID Deaths” webinar on Friday, October 15, at 12:00 noon.

Book on pandemic surgery to be virtually launched at 29th UP “STOP COVID DEATHS” webinar

Book on pandemic surgery to be virtually launched at 29th UP “STOP COVID DEATHS” webinar

November 3, 2020 by Celeste Ann Castillo Llaneta

The 29th installment of the UP “STOP COVID DEATHS” webinar series will be the very first Virtual National Book Launch of an ebook on pandemic surgery, set to be held on November 6, Friday, at 12:00 noon.

Kidney patients more vulnerable to COVID-19

May 21, 2020 by Celeste Ann Castillo Llaneta

COVID-19 famously targets the lungs, but it doesn’t stop there. Dr. Elizabeth Montemayor, Vice President of the Philippine Nephrology Society, discusses the way COVID-19 attacks the kidneys, rendering patients with kidney problems especially vulnerable to the virus.

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