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Exploristics - Innovative Analysis Solutions for Data Exploration, Pharmacogenetics, Biomarkers, Exploratory Statistical Analysis
Exploristics - Innovative Analysis Solutions for Data Exploration, Pharmacogenetics, Biomarkers, Exploratory Statistical Analysis
Environmental Problems
The Unconcealed Metaphor of Mother Earth Janet An Braza The Earth is our mother who gives birth, nurtures her child and undergoes all the pain and agony to give it utmost comfort. Mother Earth is also indomitable patient, it adjust to many changes like climate, nutritional levels and natural calamities to maintain an equilibrium. Life on Planet Earth exists in a delicate balance, system of interdependency among plants, animals, insects and the environment. The planet supports an infinite variety of ecosystems, each of which is untimely dependent upon all others for survival! If a single species becomes instinct, everyone on the planet is affected, Our concept of justice should therefore be widened to include generations yet unborn, since ant action taken today necessary affects them. ...
Dr. Howard Sobel, a World Health Organization
WHO Representative Visits Iligan Janet An Braza D r. Howard Sobel, a World Health Organization (WHO) representative from New York , USA , visited Iligan City last October 19, 2007. Sobel was welcomed by City Health Officer Dr. Levi Villarin, together with the DOH Representative Dr. Janet Braza, some doctors from Region 10, and few representatives from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). With the entourage, Sobel went to the Iligan City Hall to see the Mayor; unfortunately, the Mayor was out of town for a very important business. They were then entertained by Atty. Cenas, the Executive Assistant of Mayor Lawrence Cruz. Sobel would be here in the country for one month (from October 15-November 15) to monitor the cities of the country’s three-hundred-thousand-strategy of their 20% topographic coverage for his passions for children through his ‘Iwas Tigdas’ Campaign. In a related development, it can be recalled that last Monday, October 15, the flag raising...
Nurse No Rest
Nurses’ 40 Hour-Duty in Six Days jsbraza Iligan City - -- O ne of the city’s hospitals and institutions here has a number one topnotch in the recent Philippine Nursing Board Exam, RN Clarie Morales Bontol. She wishes to serve her city by being an employee to her alma mater. Sangyaw hopes that she will not complain later after her few weeks, months, or years in service. Most hospital has a PM:7am-3pm, AM: 3pm-11pm, and Night:11pm-7am working shifts without rest hours to its nurses, nursing aids, and midwives, thus making them serve 40-hours per week as mandated by the labor code___________. This makes 8-hours per day but some hospital institutions made it beyond the mandate. Nurses in a certain hospital of the city have six working days per week with one day rest. Because of this kind of work condition, they ...
Iligan City Public Hospital
Lapses of Iligan City Public Hospital Nurses Janet An Braza A seven year old girl (name withheld), grade one pupil of Iligan City Central School, was bitten by a neighbor’s dog on January 24, 2010. She was sent by the owner of the dog to the city hospital for a vaccine called Rabipur (one vial cost Php1,395). On the next schedule, the girl’s parent availed of an indigent’s card and was told that the indigence program of the City is given only once. The Girl who was bitten by the dog waiting for the City Hospital Indigency Office to be opened to claim her vaccine Rabipur. The girl’s second injection was at City Health Office (CHO) done by a CHO nurse, who informed the parent that her daughter was not supposed to be injected with an im (intramuscular) injection since the victim has only one bit...