House approves liver cancer and Hepatitis-B awareness month - Philippines

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PIA Press Release

Thursday, April 14, 2011

House approves liver cancer and Hepatitis-B awareness month

CABANATUAN CITY, Nueva Ecija, April 14 (PIA) -- The House of Representatives has

recently approved on third and final reading a bill setting January of each year

as the liver cancer and Hepatitis-B awareness and prevention month.

House Bill 988 seeks to promote proper education and preventive programs

pertaining to Hepatitis-B and liver cancer to protect the public especially

newborn babies from the deadly and contagious disease.

To be known as the Liver Cancer and Hepatitis-B Awareness and Prevention Month

Act, the bill authored by Rep. Alfredo D. Marañon III (2nd District, Negros

Occidental) declares the month of January of every year as awareness and

prevention month.

" The increasing number of Filipinos contracting Hepatitis-B and cancer of the

liver is getting more alarming, " said Marañon, chairman of the House Committee

on Health.

According to Marañon, the government needs to take immediate action on

preventing the spread of the virus and its threat to human health especially to

newborn babies.

Marañon said a comprehensive public education and awareness program to be

spearheaded by the Department of Health (DOH) and each local government unit,

shall be undertaken to ensure a " meaningful observance of the occasion. "

Under the bill, the public education and awareness program shall specifically

discuss the causes, transmission, consequences, diagnoses, treatments and the

prevention of Hepatitis B, including the need for immediate infant immunization

and the indispensability of observing the correct schedule and dosage.

The awareness and prevention campaign must ensure widespread and expeditious

public information about the benefits of a compulsory routine immunization of

hepatitis B on infants within 24 hours after birth.

The co-authors of the bill are Reps. York Bondoc (4th District, Pampanga)

and Augusto Syjuco (2nd District, Iloilo). (JSL/PIA-Nueva Ecija/House of

Representatives)

[Guest guest]

http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1 & t=1 & id=27608

Philippine Information Agency

PIA Press Release

Thursday, April 14, 2011

House approves liver cancer and Hepatitis-B awareness month

CABANATUAN CITY, Nueva Ecija, April 14 (PIA) -- The House of Representatives has

recently approved on third and final reading a bill setting January of each year

as the liver cancer and Hepatitis-B awareness and prevention month.

House Bill 988 seeks to promote proper education and preventive programs

pertaining to Hepatitis-B and liver cancer to protect the public especially

newborn babies from the deadly and contagious disease.

To be known as the Liver Cancer and Hepatitis-B Awareness and Prevention Month

Act, the bill authored by Rep. Alfredo D. Marañon III (2nd District, Negros

Occidental) declares the month of January of every year as awareness and

prevention month.

" The increasing number of Filipinos contracting Hepatitis-B and cancer of the

liver is getting more alarming, " said Marañon, chairman of the House Committee

on Health.

According to Marañon, the government needs to take immediate action on

preventing the spread of the virus and its threat to human health especially to

newborn babies.

Marañon said a comprehensive public education and awareness program to be

spearheaded by the Department of Health (DOH) and each local government unit,

shall be undertaken to ensure a " meaningful observance of the occasion. "

Under the bill, the public education and awareness program shall specifically

discuss the causes, transmission, consequences, diagnoses, treatments and the

prevention of Hepatitis B, including the need for immediate infant immunization

and the indispensability of observing the correct schedule and dosage.

The awareness and prevention campaign must ensure widespread and expeditious

public information about the benefits of a compulsory routine immunization of

hepatitis B on infants within 24 hours after birth.

The co-authors of the bill are Reps. York Bondoc (4th District, Pampanga)

and Augusto Syjuco (2nd District, Iloilo). (JSL/PIA-Nueva Ecija/House of

Representatives)