Following clamor for environmentally responsible health care, 15 hospitals, four medical universities, a local environment and natural resources office and a national medical association all pledged to support environmental health campaigns in hospitals and health care system in the country.

Los hospitales y centros de salud públicos de todo el país dejarán de utilizar termómetros y tensiómetros que contengan mercurio, según una disposición del Ministerio de Salud de la Nación que retoma una directiva de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS).

More than 140 countries agreed to begin talks on a legally binding treaty to reduce mercury emissions worldwide. Formal negotiations on a treaty on mercury are set to begin in 2010 and to conclude in 2013.

To promote public health and welfare for the environment, the Department of Health in region 7 (DOH-7) in coordination with the DENR-7-Environment Management Bureau will conduct a training on Health Care Waste Management to the public and private hospitals.