DOH 6 appeal for potential liver donors
The Department of Health, Center for Health Development-Western Visayas is appealing to the kind hearted public to help a one-year-old girl who is suffering from liver disease.
Director Lydia Depra-Ramos of the DOH-Center for Health Development-Western Visayas, said that the girl named Serene Pasimio is suffering from neonatal sclerosing cholangitis, a rare congenital liver condition that inevitably leads to end-stage liver disease.
Ramos said that the only treatment is immediate liver transplantation. The girl, according to Director Ramos can accept blood type A+ or blood type O.
Potential donors in Western Visayas are enjoined to please call the Department of Organ Transplantation of the National Kidney and Transplant Institute, East Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City, telephone nos. (02) 920-7707; 924-3601.
Meanwhile, July 8, 2007 and every year thereafter, is observed as National Allergy Day to address the problem of allergies and to increase public awareness on the growing occurrence of this disease among Filipino children.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said during his weekly press briefing that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has signed Presidential Proclamation No. 1313 after a study conducted by the International Study of Allergic and Asthma in Children showed Filipino children aged 13 to 14 years exhibited one of the highest rates of allergic diseases in the region.
The Malacañang press report said that the study placed the Philippines on top of Asian countries like Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea with high prevalence rates of common allergies like rhinitis and asthma.
The observance likewise gather the government, healthcare professionals and other concerned organizations to raise the level of awareness of the public in order to help reduce the incidence of allergies and asthma in the country.
(T.Villavert/PIA)