Comments on: Supreme Court slaps Gonzalez

By: The Ca t

The Ca t — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:20:13 +0000

I thought, this is just black propaganda against Chinese imports but I personally experienced consuming foodstuffs that gave me skin rashes if not gastro.

I am now very particular with imported items with preservatives. I became a label reader when it comes to active and inactive ingredients of the product. The products in the US are required to specify in their labels, the percentage of composition of some ingredients and their purpose.

With all the information available in the internet, a consumer will be educated as to what he is getting from a product especially those which are taken orally.

By: cvj

cvj — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:52:41 +0000

Justice League, i think you’re right as the number of government doctors as indicated in the nscb’s site is in that range. I’m still looking for the total number of doctors as well as the number of unemployed doctors.

By: UP n student

UP n student — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:50:15 +0000

The Ca t: I am becoming more cautious with made-in-China foodstuff. Just 3 weeks ago, my sister gave me sungsong (you know this, right — peanuts, first boiled, then dried). She did not give me the made-in-the-Philippines brands. The made-in-China sungsong tastes slightly different, is probably cheaper… and now I am worried the made-in-China may have “special ingredients” so I trashed the 3 bags of sungsong remaining.

By: The Ca t

The Ca t — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:55:43 +0000

UPn

DEG is the chemical used in coolant and anti-freeze in the refrigeration systems.

The toothpastes imported from China and are being sold in Dollar Stores because they are cheap contained DEG as a substitute for the real glycerine, the bonding ingredient in the toothpaste that makes the gummy paste.

Glycerine costs three times the DEG.The discovery was not made in the US. It was in Panama and Costa Rica where deaths and paralysis of several people due to expectorants diluted with DEG led to the investigation of a Chinese Company which labeled DEG as pharmaceutical grade glycerine.

By: justice league

justice league — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:06:49 +0000

Cvj,

Atty. Doc Bu Castro seems to have been presented with wrong data. The ratio seems more applicable only to government physicians:population at that time.

And if I’m not mistaken, he was planning suit to go abroad too back then. Can’t say if he left though but he doesn’t seem to be around anymore.

By: cvj

cvj — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:22:44 +0000

I don’t know how true it still is today, but one of my highschool classmates who is into Hospital administration told me a few years ago that what the Philippines lacks is primary medical care (i.e. clinics) as opposed to full-blown hospitals.

By: UP n student

UP n student — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:21:21 +0000

SIDE-TOPIC: CNN.COM headline : Throw Away Toothpaste Made in China

WASHINGTON (AP) — The US government warned consumers on Friday to avoid using toothpaste made in China because it may contain a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze.
Out of caution, the Food and Drug Administration said, people should throw away toothpaste with labeling that says it was made in China. The FDA is concerned that these products may contain diethylene glycol.

…. The ingredient in question, called DEG, is used as a lower-cost sweetener and thickening agent. The highest concentration of the chemical found in toothpaste so far was between 3 percent and 4 percent of the product’s overall weight.

“It does not belong in toothpaste even in small concentrations,” said the FDA’s Deborah M. Autor.

By: UP n student

UP n student — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:48:58 +0000

The Philippine government (the government, not necessarily GMA herself) has had a plan, called DTTB — doctors to the barrio.
Flavier’s “Project 271,” as the DTTB program was first called, aimed to send doctors to 271 fifth- and sixth-class towns that hadn’t had a resident physician in at least 10 years. Flavier had appealed to young medical graduates, especially those from the heavily state-subsidized University of the Philippines, to serve in the countryside. The DTTB program’s success can be gauged partly from the fact that impoverished towns now need only to have been doctorless for two years to convince the national government to assign them a rural health physician.

By: UP n student

UP n student — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:42:28 +0000

A WHO Report on the issue has this paragraph:
…. governments need to seek creative solutions. In Mongolia, where the average health worker earns only $40 a month, scholarships are being offered to medical students willing to return and work in rural areas for at least three years. Thailand has found that training staff with a locally focused curriculum encourages retention in rural areas and a drop in migration.

By: UP n student

UP n student — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:38:46 +0000

For the solutions identified by Dr. Galvez Tan, go to:
http://www.medobserver.com/aug2005/nih.html