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The Community Medicine Foundation, Inc. (COMMED), is a private, non-stock, non-profit organization, established in 1986, that addresses its efforts towards improving the health care system of the country by fielding physicians in the different marginalized areas all over the Philippines.
COMMED as a training and resource center shall:
Promote and advocate the practice of medicine in a community setting among physicians, health professionals and students in the health sciences;
Develop and enhance their competencies adapted to community health and development initiatives;
Field and monitor health personnel to economically disadvantaged and medically underserved communities.
HEALTH WORKERS’ DAY ACT Filed on November 15, 2007 by Angara, Edgardo J., Cayetano, “Companera” Pia S. (click link to download) http://www.senate.gov.ph/republic_acts/ra%2010069.pdf
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