With its commitment to help uplift the overall health condition of Filipinos, GlaxoSmithKline Philippines (GSK) is sponsoring the deployment of 100 nurses in underserved municipalities under the government’s NARS (Nurses Assigned to Rural Service) Program. In the presence of President Arroyo, GSK president and managing director Roberto Taboada (left) signed the memorandum of agreement with Labor Secretary Marianito Roque (right). Also present were Philippine Regulation Commission-Board of Nursing Commissioner Ruth Padilla (second from left) and Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association of the Philippines president Oscar Aragon (fourth from left). The NARS project will deploy a total of 10,000 unemployed nurses in the country’s poorest municipalities to improve the delivery of health care services in rural areas. The second batch of nurses will be deployed on Oct. 1, 2009. –Daily Tribune
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
“Safety and health at work every day!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government
(NUG) of Myanmar.
Reject Military!
#WearMask #WashHands #Distancing #TakePicturesVideos
Monthly Observances:
March – Women’s Role in History Month
April – Month of Planet Earth
Weekly Observances:
Last Week of March: Protection and Gender Fair Treatment of the Girl Child Week
Last Week of April – World Immunization Week
Daily Observances:
Mar 25 – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transallantic Slave Trade
Mar 27– Earth Hour
Apr 21 – Civil Service Day
Apr 22 – World Earth Day
Apr 28 – World Day for Safety and Health at Work
