KORONADAL CITY Two Indigenous People (IP) centenarians from General Santos City and South Cotabato province received their respective P100,000 centenarian cash gifts from the government on Thursday afternoon. The recipients were Luheng Aloy Cayok, a 103-year-old Tboli elder from Barangay San Jose, General Santos City, and 101-year-old Blaan matriarch Rebecca Latimbon…
SELFIE. A vaccine recipient (right) takes a selfie as a volunteer healthcare worker (left) prepares to administer a shot on Monday morning (Nov. 29, 2021) inside the McDonalds branch in Barangay Lagao, General Santos City, which is designated as a Covid-19 inoculation site. Hundreds of residents lined up outside the fast-food branch to avail of the Covid-19 jabs in line with the three-day National Vaccination Days. (PNA photo by Richelyn Gubalani) GENERAL SANTOS CITY - Health authorities here have brought their coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccination campaign to the "purok" or zone level as they aim to inoculate some 105,267 individuals in the next three days. Dr. Rochelle Oco, head of the City Health Office (CHO), said on Monday they adopted such a strategy in line with the opening of the three-day nationwide Covid-19 mass vaccination activities. She said hundreds of residents were monitored to have already lined up early in the morning in each of the 32 established
SELFIE. A vaccine recipient (right) takes a selfie as a volunteer healthcare worker (left) prepares to administer a shot on Monday morning (Nov. 29, 2021) inside the McDonalds branch in Barangay Lagao, General Santos City, which is designated as a Covid-19 inoculation site. Hundreds of residents lined up outside the fast-food branch to avail of the Covid-19 jabs in line with the three-day National Vaccination Days. (PNA photo by Richelyn Gubalani) GENERAL SANTOS CITY - Health authorities here have brought their coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccination campaign to the "purok" or zone level as they aim to inoculate some 105,267 individuals in the next three days. Dr. Rochelle Oco, head of the City Health Office (CHO), said on Monday they adopted such a strategy in line with the opening of the three-day nationwide Covid-19 mass vaccination activities. She said hundreds of residents were monitored to have already lined up early in the morning in each of the 32 established
Dr. Arvin Alejandro, Sarangani health officer (PNA GenSan photo) GENERAL SANTOS CITY -Health authorities in Sarangani province have tapped local tribal or indigenous peoples' (IP) leaders to help increase its vaccination coverage against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). Dr. Arvin Alejandro, Sarangani health officer, said on Friday the number of vaccinated individuals in some upland and remote villages and communities in the province's seven municipalities remained low, especially among the IP residents. He cited as an example the case of Barangay Amsipit in Maasim town, where only six of its 2,000 population are vaccinated. "We still have a problem in really advocating for the vaccine among our IPs and those in marginalized communities," he said in a briefing. Alejandro said it includes beneficiaries of the government's anti-poverty initiative Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). Sarangani has seven cultural groups composed of the Blaan, Tboli, Tagak
Dr. Edvir Jane Montaner, Department of Health-Region 12 immunization coordinator (PNA GenSan photo) GENERAL SANTOS CITY -The Department of Health (DOH) and rural health units (RHUs) in Region 12 (Soccsksargen) are all set for the upcoming three-day national vaccination campaign for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) that aims to cover some 935,688 individuals. Dr. Edvir Jane Montaner, the DOH-12 immunization coordinator, said on Friday they have already finalized the necessary preparations in coordination with the RHUs for the nationwide mass vaccination activities set on November 29 to December 1. She said they are targeting to inoculate some 311,894 individuals per day in Soccsksargen's four provinces and four cities, as well as Cotabato City in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. Soccsksargen comprises the provinces of South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, North Cotabato, and the cities of General Santos, Koronadal, Tacurong, and Kidapawan. Montaner said s