A robot that is similar to a big cheerful teddy bear was developed by Japanese scientists. It was designed to boost hospital patients in and out of their wheelchairs or beds. The Robot for Interactive Body Assistance (RIBA) was developed by the government-run Riken research institute. It will be installed in hospitals and retirement homes in 3 years time. Dr. Toshiharu Mukai, Research Team Head, said that they have developed RIBA because to be able to help the caregivers when they are required to transfer patients into hospital beds or wheelchairs.

A policy-maker from Mindanao said that Nurses Assigned in Rural Service (NARS) Project toward organizing a larger number of jobless nurses must be built up by the congress. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza, Cotabato Representative said that it would make a lot of sense to expand the NARS, and perhaps knock additional 10,000 nurses for employment as midwives in municipalities with the highest motherly and infant humanity rates. This means will save thousands of mothers and infants who are at risk each year because of pregnancy and birth-related complications. The lack of access to skilled delivery attendants affects the disappointingly soaring number of mothers and infants being gone during pregnancy and childbirth. According to govt. health surveys 162 mothers die out of every 10,000 births, and that 14 percent of all deaths among Filipino women may be attributed to pregnancy or to childbirth-related causes. Three out of every four maternal deaths happen to very young women 15 to 19 years old, while the infant mortality is unusually high at 24 out of every 1,000 live births. Poor mothers still give birth at home in rural areas and even in metropolitan slums, frequently there were no trained attendants.

A fashion show was viewed last Wednesday morning at Tulare Regional Medical Center. The models are their staff members. The event is a means to aid the employees to have fun with the introduction of a new policy. The show was done to bring in color-coordinated uniforms that will help visitors to promptly identify the staff. The new uniform policy became obligatory last Monday.

The Top 3 Hospitals in the National Capital Region are St. Luke's, Professional Services Inc. Medical City, and Medical Doctors Inc. Makati Medical Center. They had the largest fixed asset investments from 2000 to 2003. Also, the 3 have 22 percent of total book value of fixed assets in the private health-care sector. Dr. Jose F.G. Ledesma doesn’t put on white lab coat. More than thousand of doctors in St. Luke’s Medical Center Inc. doesn’t wear white lab coat. Ledesma was the chief executive officer of St. Luke’s for 13 years. Ledesma told the BusinessMirror that the traditional white coats which mark the professional medical team is a way of St. Luke’s to cut their expenses.