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The Puerto Rico Department of Health ( PRDOH) ( Spanish: Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico) is one of the Cabinet-level agencies directly created by Article 4, Section 6 of the Constitution of Puerto Rico. It is headed by a Secretary of Health, appointed by the Governor of Puerto Rico and requiring the advice and consent of the Senate of ...
The Secretary of Health of Puerto Rico ( Spanish: Secretario de Salud de Puerto Rico) leads the Department of Health of Puerto Rico and all efforts related to health in Puerto Rico. [1]
The Puerto Rico Department of Health reported first noticing an increase in dengue fever cases on the island at the end of 2023. With 146 cases reported by the third week of January, ...
Puerto Rico Department of Health. ‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out. The COVID-19 pandemic in Puerto Rico was an ongoing viral pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19 ), a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute ...
The Puerto Rico Health Reform — Spanish: Reforma de Salud de Puerto Rico, refers to the Medicaid health plan which is a "subset of the larger public government healthcare delivery system" of Puerto Rico. [1] It was once called " La Reforma ", later it was called " Mi Salud " and now called Vital (The Vital Plan) but they are all Medicaid, a ...
Antonia Coello Novello (born August 23, 1944) is a Puerto Rican physician and public health administrator. She was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as 14th Surgeon General of the United States from 1990 to 1993. Novello was the first woman and first Hispanic to serve as Surgeon General.
On April 19, 1932, Puerto Rico enacted Act 12, "An Act to Punish the Planting, Importation, Purchase, and Sale of Marijuana, and for Other Purposes" (Spanish: "Ley para castigar la siembra, importación, compra y venta de la marijuana, y para otros fines"). The included penalties were a minimum of one month and maximum of one year in jail.
Effects of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Between September 19-21, 2017, Hurricane Maria devastated the entire island of Puerto Rico and caused a major humanitarian crisis. Originally as a powerful Category 5 hurricane, Maria was the strongest storm to impact the island in nearly 90 years. Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico on September 20 as ...