The Negros Occidental provincial government will build animal hospitals in all six districts across the province to boost veterinary health care and services. These facilities will be called the Abanse Negrense District Animal Health Center. In a statement on Thursday, Dr. Renante Decena, provincial veterinarian, said these will serve as the satellite centers of the Provincial Animal Learning Park and Hospital located at Panaad Park and Stadium in this city. In the first district, the animal hospital will rise in Sitio Medina, Barangay Rizal in San Carlos City; second district — Crossing, Barangay 1-A in Manapla; third district — Barangay

New markets are emerging for Filipino healthcare workers (HCWs) amid the global coronavirus crisis, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said on Thursday. “During the pandemic, the number of other countries in our Asean is increasing, Singapore, and Hong Kong. In the Middle East, there is the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, and Kuwait. They need a large number of nurses. Bahrain and Oman, the demand for nurses continue to grow,” POEA chief Bernard Olalia said in a virtual forum. He, however, said the top destinations also continue to hire Filipino HCWs. “Our top destination countries before the pandemic, Saudi

The Marikina and Pasay governments have ramped up protocols to keep their constituents safe against the more transmissible coronavirus Delta variant. None among the 25 cases of the hypertransmissible variant in the National Capital Region are from either cities. In a statement on Thursday, Mayor Marcelino Teodoro said the city government will impose stricter measures while expecting more vaccine doses. “With the threat of the new variant, Marikina will exhaust all possible measures and available resources, as well as employ stricter protocols to prevent the entry and spread of the variant and stem the increase in cases,” he said. Since

The Laoag International Airport (LIA) has temporarily stopped accepting regional flights of returning residents to contain the more contagious Delta variant which is already confirmed present here. According to Governor Matthew Joseph Manotoc, the alarming surge of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases in the province which brings to another record high of 297 new cases in a single day on July 28, needs to be addressed first before they can start accepting regional flights again. “No plans to accept regional flights as of now because I think, we have to clearly address first our problems in the province,” said

The city government here targets to vaccinate over 12,000 more senior citizens who are yet to receive a coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccine. “With the mobile vaccination teams to be deployed to the different barangays, the city government hopes to expedite the inoculation of the most vulnerable sector,” Mayor Benjamin Magalong said in an interview Thursday. He said many senior citizens refuse to queue in vaccination sites for fear of exposure to the virus. Magalong said barangay officials should coordinate with the district coordinator and register the elderlies as well as persons with disabilities (PWDs) for the dispatch of a