Day: September 12, 2024

MANILA – The Metro Manila Council (MMC) has approved a resolution that urges local government units (LGUs) in Metro Manila to conduct an information and education campaign to raise awareness about leptospirosis among the populace on the nature, symptoms, and risks to life and health of the disease caused by exposure to floodwaters. In a press briefing held at the MMDA head office in Pasig City on Wednesday, MMDA Acting Chairman, lawyer Don Artes, said through MMDA Regulation No. 24-003 (series of 2024), children and adults are prohibited from swimming, playing, gallivanting and/ or unnecessary wading or doing any other

MALASIQUI, Pangasinan – The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) paid PHP5.1 billion in medical and procedure claims in the Ilocos Region from January to July this year. Citing agency data, PhilHealth Ilocos Region Vice President Dennis Adre, in a statement on Thursday, said moderate-risk pneumonia is the leading medical case in the region with a total of PHP381.7 million paid in claims in the first seven months this year. Among the top medical cases that the agency has paid claims include hypertensive emergency, acute gastroenteritis, peptic ulcer disease without hemorrhage, urinary tract infection (admissible), dengue fever, upper respiratory tract infection,

MANILA – The Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) on Thursday expressed optimism that the 2011 killing of Puerto Princesa City broadcaster Gerardo “Doc Gerry” Ortega will soon be resolved following the surrender of former Palawan governor Joel Reyes. ‘This a very good development, considering that Reyes is among the high-profile suspects in the government’s list of those wanted for the murder of the members of the press,’ PTFoMS executive director Undersecretary Paul Gutierrez said in a statement. Reyes, the alleged mastermind behind the killing of Ortega, surrendered to authorities on Tuesday while undergoing treatment at a hospital in

MANILA – Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla on Thursday said investigators will look into the circumstances of uncovered mass graves in Porac, Pampanga apparently arising from operations of illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO). ‘Yung organized crime nila, lumipat dito, nagdala ng lagim, kaya nga yan ang isang dahilan kung bakit nangayaw na ang Pangulo (Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.) sa POGO kasi kasama na ang social ills at criminal aspect na hindi talaga katanggap-tanggap sa atin (Their organized crime has moved here, and brought terror, and that is the reason why President Marcos rejected the continuation of POGOs and their

MANILA – National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Administrator Eduardo Guillen on Thursday said the agency’s transfer to the Office of the President (OP) is crucial in realizing the administration’s target to achieve food security. President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. earlier ordered the reorganization and transfer of the NIA from the Department of Agriculture (DA) to the OP under Executive Order No. 69. During the Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon briefing, Guillen said the President’s move only shows his ‘sincerity’ in his vow to achieve food security as part of his 8-point economic agenda. ‘Kasi ang kailangan talaga ng food security ay itong irigasyon.