Aggressive 'Mr. Sia' To Kick Measles Out of the City

City health officials are poised to make Valenzuela City morbilli and rubella (German) measles free with “Mr. Sia” making the rounds of a month-long door-to-door immunizat...

Annual Blood-Letting Campaign Draws More Participants

Valenzuela City Mayor Sherwin T. Gatchalian encouraged citizens to donate blood to the Philippine Red Cross Valenzuela City Chapter in the event dubbed as “Dugo ko, Alay ko: Bir...

Valenzuela City Instills Early Vigilance Against Dengue

As preparation ahead of the possible rise in the cases of dreaded disease dengue during the forecasted early onset of the rainy season when the disease is known to be at its peak, the City ...

Mayor Gatchalian Intensifies Valenzuela City’s Anti-Smoking Campaign

In support of the National Government’s campaign against excessive use of tobacco and tobacco related products, Valenzuela City Mayor Sherwin T. Gatchalian actively set up initi...

Valenzuela City Upholds Efficient Population Management Program
by: Lauro Zyan Caiña

“Eradicat...

Valenzuela City Invigorates Programs for the Elderly

City officials have stepped up programs for the elderly in Valenzuela City by sustaining further its projects designed to address their health and well being needs. ...

Valenzuela City Intensifies Breastfeeding Advocacy
by: Michael King Urieta

As part of the month-long celebration of the 37th Nutrition Month, Valenzuela City upholds its local nutrition campaign anchoring on the nationwide theme, “Breastfeed...

Intensified Vigilance Against Dengue Called At The Height Of Rainy Days
by: Michael King Urieta

City Mayor Sherwin T. Gatchalian called for continuous active participation of sectors concerned in dengue vector containment and extermination, citing sanitation and safety precautio...

Wyeth Sponsors 8-Month Supplementary Feeding Program For 600 Kids
by: Mark Lester Cayabyab

Almost 600 grade one pupils of Gen. T. De Leon Elementary School will benefit from a supplementary feeding program sponsored by Wyeth after the pharmaceutical company partnered with t...

Valenzuela City Partners with SM Foundation, Inc. In Healthcare Advocacy
by: Michael King Urieta

Total of 1,748 Valenzuelanos flocked at SM Center Valenzuela for FREE medical, dental, consultation services and medicines provided by the SM Foundation, Inc., a corporate social resp...

Valenzuela City Continues Intensified Dengue Program
by: Lauro Zyan Caiña

Valenzuela City Health Department implements additional and specific actions to mitigate dengue in aim of protecting the health and welfare of the constituents amidst the prevailing increase in c...

Red Cross Valenzuela Intensifies Dengue Contingency Plan Through Blood Bank Facility Expansion
by: Michael KIng Urieta

The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) – Valenzuela City Chapter recently upgraded its blood bank facility located in their newly-renovated headquarters in Barangay Marulas, Valenzuela City. Now on...

New 82-Million Peso Hospital and Dialysis Center To Rise In Valenzuela City
by: Michael King Urieta

Valenzuela residents will get a boost on health services as the construction of the new City-funded PhP 82 million 3-storey, 50-bed Valenzuela City West Emergency Hospital and Dialysi...

Valenzuela City Joins The Fight Against Cervical Cancer
by: Public Information Office

Valenzuelano women can now avail of anti-cervical cancer vaccines at discounted price through the “Valenzuela’s Big Fight Against Cervical Cancer” in partnership wit...

Buntis Congress 2011 Prepares Valenzuelano Mothers-To-Be
by: Wynndee Penolio

For six years in a row, the partnership of the City Health Department and Rotary Club of Valenzuela dubbed as “Buntis Congress” which aims to raise maternal and new born c...

Valenzuela City’s Barangay Health Institutions Commended
by: Wynndee Penolio

With the theme Magaling na Paglilingkod, Kayamanan ng Lungsod, Valenzuela City Health Department recognized the hard work, efficiency and achievements of barangay health workers and i...

Valenzuela City Health Center, NCR’s Best
by: Wynndee Penolio

Valenzuela City’s Barangay Coloong Heath Center topped all health centers in the National Capital Region (NCR) in Center for Health Development’s (CHD) Best Sanitation Pra...

School Children In Valenzuela To Learn Proper Coughing Manners
by: Wynndee Penolio

“Bata, bata paano ka umubo?” (Kid, how do you cough?) This is the question the doctors ask in setting off the UBOkabularyo, a citywide info...

Vice Mayor, City Veterinary Office Hand in Hand For Rabies-Free Valenzuela
by: Liezel N. Fulgencio

In aim of lessening the risk of rabies contagion of humans due to dog and cat bites in the city, Vice Mayor Eric Martinez re-launched his annual free anti-rabies vaccination program d...

Mercury Drug Holds “Operation Bigay Lunas” in Punturin
by: James S. Habitan

As part of its 67thAnniversary Celebration, Mercury Drug Corporation, in cooperation with the Valenzuela City Health Department (CHD), the City Social Welfare and Developme...

CAMANAVA Midwives Gather For Quality Maternal And Child Care
by: Wyndee Penolio

On its 7th year, the Integrated Midwives Association of the Philippines (IMAP) CAMANAVA Chapter gathered more than 300 private practitioners on its 7th Annual Sy...

Valenzuela City Proclaimed Aerobics Capital Of The Philippines
by: Liezle Fulgencio with reports by Beng Bautista

Aerobics enthusiasts in the city are now more inspired and empowered to promote a healthy lifestyle after the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) hailed Valenzuela as the &ldquo...

Municipality of Taraka Adopts Valenzuela’s Good Governance Practices
by: Liezel N. Felgencio

How revenues can be raised efficiently and how good governance is practiced through financial management ...

Valenzuela City Awarded Best in Infant and Young Child Feeding Initiatives
by: Liezel N. Fulgencio

The National Nutrition Council (NNC) - National Capital Region of the Department of Health praised Valenzuela City’s efforts in institutionalizing its breastfeeding program and ...

Valenzuela City Awarded Best in Infant and Young Child Feeding Initiatives
by: Liezel N. Fulgencio

The National Nutrition Council (NNC) - National Capital Region of the Department of Health praised Valenzuela City’s efforts in institutionalizing its breastfeeding program and ...

Health and Social Welfare, Focus of Valenzuela City Foundation Day Celebration
by: Lauro Zyan Caiña

Amidst heating debate on privatization of public hospitals, the local government of Valenzuela unveiled the new city-funded PhP 120 million three-storey, 50-bed capacity Valenzuela Ci...

Valenzuela City Hosts 7th Goiter Awareness Week Kickoff
by: Liezel N. Fulgencio

Various medical associations and governmental bureaus have recognized the dedication of the City Government of Valenzuela in actively advocating healthcare and wellness to its constit...

Valenzuela City Receives Barangay Health Worker’s Journal from Unilab
by: Fatima De Guzman

Journals and handbooks that will aid and serve as reference materials for Valenzuela’s Barangay Health Workers (BHWs) were turned over by Unilab to the city yesterday, April 2...

City Government Launches Own Dialysis Center
by: Liezel N. Fulgencio

Valenzuela City Emergency Hospital’s excellent services thrust notches higher with the formal opening of the Dialysis Center to signal the readiness of the City Health Office ...

Valenzuela City Government Emerges as Health Governance Champion
by: Liezel N. Fulgencio

The local government of Valenzuela’s increase of investment for health and the City Health Office’s (CHO) geriatric program paved the way to the city’s newest mile...

Barangay Nutrition Scholars Pledge to End Hunger and Malnutrition
by: Rafael Cañete

Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNS) from all over Metro Manila pledged to end hunger and malnutrition in the country during the annual Barangay Nutrition Scholars’ Forum held at...

Valenzuela City Honors Outstanding Health Workers, Advocates
by: Liezel N. Fulgencio

Three consecutive recognition rites are Valenzuela City’s culminating activities for the nutrition month celebration dubbed as, “Gutom at Malnutrisyon Sama-sama nating W...

Valenzuela City LGBT to become HIV/AIDS Advocates
by: Rafael C. Cañete

The Valenzuela City Health Office (VCHO) is tapping the support of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) community in the city for its campaign to control the spread o...

Valenzuela City Health Department Holds Anti-Measles Mass Immunization
by: Rafael C. Cañete

The Valenzuela City Health Office is calling on parents in the city to bring their children aged six months to five years old to health centers, and have them vaccinated against mea...

Valenzuela Health Stations Renovated, Follow DOH Standards
by: Rafael C. Cañete

The Valenzuela City local government is renovating barangay health stations based on World Health Organization and Department of Health standards. ...

Valenzuela Health Stations Renovated, Follow DOH Standards
by: Rafael C. Cañete

The Valenzuela City local government is renovating barangay health stations based on World Health Organization and Department of Health standards. ...

Valenzuela City Hosts Local Ronda Pilipinas Leg
by: Maricar Eunice Francisco

144 riders competed in the local leg of the international biking tournament Ronda Pilipinas on Saturday, February 8. The riders raced ...

Contraceptive Offers Three-year Protection
by: Rafael C. Canete

Family planning has always been in Mariluna Tumbaga’s mind, but until now, no contraceptive has suited her. “Dati, gusto kong magpaligate...

Forum Culminates National Kidney Month in Valenzuela City
by: Rafael C. Cañete

For the culmination of the National Kidney Month in Valenzuela City, the National Kidney Transplant Institute (NKTI) urged the public to have their urine tested at least once a year...

Forum Culminates National Kidney Month in Valenzuela City
by: Rafael C. Cañete

For the culmination of the National Kidney Month in Valenzuela City, the National Kidney Transplant Institute (NKTI) urged the public to have their urine tested at least once a year...

First 1K Days Crucial to Child’s Health
by: Rafael Cañete

Good nutrition starts in the womb. That is why the Valenzuela City Health Office (CHO) has launched an information campaign on good nutrition aimed at pregnant ...

Barangay health workers susceptible, cautioned against Ebola
by: Jay Exiomo

The Department of Health (DOH) urged barangay health workers (BHWs) to be vigilant on possible cases of Ebola, a disease that has claimed thousands of lives worldwid...

Barangay health workers susceptible, cautioned against Ebola
by: Jay Exiomo

The Department of Health (DOH) urged barangay health workers (BHWs) to be vigilant on possible cases of Ebola, a disease that has claimed thousands of lives worldwid...

Valenzuela City gets DOH Gawad Kalusugan Award
by: Rodrigo de Guzman

The Department of Health (DOH) presented the Kalusugan Pangkahalatan grand prize award to Valenzuela City f...

‘Lata,’ ‘sita’ bring dengue deaths to 0 in Valenzuela
by: Rafael Cañete

No one died of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Valenzuela City in 2014 – a first in 17 years – the ...

Valenzuela Health Department welcomes American docs
by: Jay Exiomo; with reports from Liezel Fulgencio and Mark Cayabyab

Valenzuela City welcomed doctors and medical students from the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and S...

Don’t fear, HIV test results tight, doc says
by: Rafael Cañete

By way of encouraging more people to have themselves tested for human immunodeficiency virus, the City Heal...

Maternal deaths dip as Valenzuela short film ‘unbinds’ pregnancy myths
by: Rafael Cañete

Expectant mothers in Valenzuela City...

Blood test at Valenzuela public hospital now high-tech, faster
by: John Mark D. Exiomo

It used to be that patients would have to set an appointment weeks ahead to have their blood chemistry chec...

11 inhale mosquito fogging smoke, now stable
by: Rafael Cañete

The 11 persons who found it difficult to breathe after inhaling smoke during a mosquito fogging in an urban...

CT scan rates at Valenzuela public hospital lower than most
by: Beng Bautista and Rafael Carpio Cañete

Valenzuela City residents who ne...

Dengue vaccine safe, now in Valenzuela
by: Rodrigo Carganilla de Guzman

Dengvaxia, the world’s first vaccine to prevent dengue hemorrhagic fever, is now being administered i...

Valenzuela health office to hold anti-dengue vaccination anew
by: Rafael Carpio Cañete

For the second time since April, the C...

New mobile dental clinic on way to Valenzuela med missions
by: Rodrigo Carganilla de Guzman

A new mobile clinic is serving at the city government’s medical missions in Valenzuela City....

Valenzuela City Celebrates 2017 World No Tobacco Day
by: Evelyn S. Bautista

Government offices that advocate anti-smoking habits joined forces in Valenzuela City’s celebration of the 2017 World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) with the theme, “Tobacco – ...

Two New Health Stations Inaugurated
by: Sharmaine Tan

In line with the week-long celebration of Dr. Pio Valenzuela’s 148th Birth Anniversary, additional health stations located at Lower Tibagan and Duhat, both in Barangay Ugong, were ...

Valenzuela City Partners with DOST to Innovate Complementary Baby Food
by: Liezel N. Fulgencio

Sustainability of the City Government of Valenzuela’s Barangay-Based Feeding Program (BBFP) is being strengthened as the Food and Nutrition Research Institute of the Department of...

Valenzuela City Designates Common Areas for Firecrackers and Pyrotechnic Devices
by: Maria Krizel Hiyas H. Villanueva

In line with the national government’s aim of regulating the use of firecrackers and pyrotechnic devices in the country, the City Government of Valenzuela implements local Executi...

Two Valenzuela Villages Get New Health Station
by: Public Information Office

It is a Merry Christmas indeed for the Barangays of Gen. T. de Leon and Ugong, as their communities get newly-built Barangay Health Station (BHS) which were inaugurated and bl...

New Satellite City Hall Opens in Barangay Balangkas
by: William Chua

Closer services are now within reach of residents of Barangay Balangkas with the opening of their own Sentro ng Sama-samang Serbisyo or 3S Center on February 16, as part of the weeklong...

Valenzuela City Lays Out Local nCOV Response Protocol
by: Public Information Office

In the light of concerns raised about by the novel coronavirus or 2019-nCOV, City Mayor REX Gatchalian convened the Valenzuela City Disaster Risk Reduction an...

Valenzuela City Readies Protocol Orientation, New “Thermal Guns” to Boost Local Schools’ nCoV Preps
by: Angelica R. Porciuncula / Public Information Office

Following the session of the Valenzuela City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (VCDRRMC) led by Mayor REX Gatchalian last January 30, 2020, the City cons...

Private Schools and Hospitals in Harmony with Valenzuela City amid 2019-nCoV ARD Threat
by: Angelica R. Porciuncula / Public Information Office

Mayor REX Gatchalian calls for another NCOV coordination meeting, this time with the officers and representatives of Valenzuela Association of Private School Ad...

Valenzuela Mayor: Follow SRPs on Surgical Mask and N95 Face Mask
by: Janine Aguarino / Public Information Office

As a move to safeguard the interest of the Valenzuelanos against profiteering business establishments, retail outlets, and traders, in the wake of novel coronavir...

Valenzuela City Barangays, Local NGOs Gear Up for 2019-nCoV ARD Protocol
by: Angelica R. Porciuncula / Public Information Office

With local government units (LGUs) in-charge of the promotion of health and safety within their jurisdictions, Valenzuela City leads the prevention and control of...

DOH Sheds Light on COVID-2019 Protocol for Heightened City-Wide Prevention Measures
by: Angelica R. Porciuncula / Public Information Office

Mayor REX Gatchalian holds a coordination meeting with the Department of Health – Metro Manila Center for Health Development (DOH-MMCHD) and private hospita...

Valenzuela City Imposes Anti-Hoarding and Anti-Panic Buying Measures Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic
by: Public Information Office

Valenzuela City Council passed after its 5thSpecial Session today, March 12, 2020, City Ordinance No. 669, Series of 2020, otherwise known as,...

Valenzuela City Temporarily Defers Tax Payment Deadlines, Waives Penalty
by: Janine Aguarino / Public Information Office

To provide a reprieve to taxpayers who will not be able to file real property and transfer taxes because o...

Sanitary Permits, Health Certificates Now Available Online with Valenzuela’s ‘Paspas Permit’
by: Angelica R. Porciuncula / Public Information Office

Provisional sanitary permits of businesses and health certificates are the newest integration to Valenzuela City’s Paspas ...

COVID-19 Vaccine C.O.D.E. Team Visits Valenzuela City, Approves VCVax Rollout Plan
by: Angelica R. Porciuncula / Public Information Office

The COVID-19 Vaccine Coordinated Operations to Defeat Epidemic (C.O.D.E.) Team has given a go-ahead for the implementation of Vale...

A4 Priority List Up For COVID-19 Vaccination in Valenzuela City; Basic education frontliners urged to register
by: Jelly Porciuncula / Public Information Office

The City Government of Valenzuela begins the COVID-19 vaccination for the first batch of the A4 priority list ...

Valenzuelano BHWs Get Professional Training
by: Mary Margaret Magat

SYNERGEIA Foundation’s first health program is in unison with Valenzuela City Health Office, a month-long training was conducted to prepare the 31 Barangay Health Workers (BHW) fr...

Valenzuela City Launches “Balik Eskwela, Bantay Kalusugan sa Valenzuela” Program
by: William Chua

With the students returning to face-to-face classes, Valenzuela City launches Mobile Medical and Dental Vans that will cater exclusively to children and schools. Dubbed as “Balik Eskw...

Valenzuela City Celebrates National Oral Health Month with the Launch of “Bertong Sipilyo”
by: William Chua

The City Government of Valenzuela, under the leadership of Mayor WES Gatchalian and the City Health Office launched “Bertong Sipilyo” as...

Valenzuela City Launches “Health Check – Belly Good!” for Public Order and Safety Office Employees
by: William Chua

“Health is Wealth”, especially for the city employees working in the field, with this, the City Government of Valen...

Valenzuela City Rolls Out Bivalent Booster Vaccination for the Valenzuelano Healthcare Workers
by: Gillian Roldan

Serving as additional protection to the health and immunity of every Pamilyang Valenzuelano, the City of Valenzuela rol...

Valenzuela City Hosts Breastmilk Letting Activity, Family Planning Caravan
by: William Chua

Healthcare, being one of Valenzuela City’s priority for the Pamilyang Valenzuelano, the City Government of Valenz...

Valenzuela City Excels in Healthcare: Recognized at the Metro Manila Center for Health Development Program Implementation Review
by: William Chua

Valenzuela City under the leadership of Mayor WES Gatchalian takes center stage in healthcare excellence as the Departm...

Valenzuela City Honored for Excellence in Newborn Screening
by: William Chua

With a continuous display of commitment to public health, Valenzuela City, under the leadership of Mayor WES Gatchalian...