URBAN FARMING. Iloilo City Agriculturist Inigo Garingalao on Wednesday (June 29, 2022) says 180 barangays and schools are expected to embark on urban farming. An ordinance approved by the Sangguniang Panlungsod has institutionalized urban agriculture in the city.(PNA photo by Perla G. Lena) ILOILO CITY - This highly urbanized city's 180 barangays and schools are expected to engage in farming after the approval of an ordinance institutionalizing urban agriculture. "This is a landmark ordinance. This ordinance would enjoin all barangays to have area for food sources, may it be temporary or owned by the government," said Iloilo City Agriculturist Inigo Garingalao in a press conference on Wednesday. He said residents may engage in a container, vertical, or any type of gardening doable in the urban setting with the assistance of his office and other departments of the city government. All schools also need to have their vegetable garden. Garingalao added that the ordinance man
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): The Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines Inc. (PHAPi) is encouraging its members to observe a “PhilHealth holiday” from Jan 1 to 5 next year in support of other hospitals that have announced plans to cut ties with the state health insurer.
There are still other hospitals that are contemplating following the footsteps of Iloilo City but they are still trying to convince other members to do the same.
MANILA - Malacanang on Tuesday renewed its call to the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to settle unpaid claims after seven private hospitals in Iloilo announced cutting ties with the state insurer over unpaid claims amounting to more than PHP545 million. "Pangulong Duterte has already issued a directive in previous Cabinet meeting namin na to pay the hospitals immediately, bayaran ang mga ospital (President Duterte has already issued a directive in a previous Cabinet meeting to pay hospitals immediately)," Acting Presidential Spokesperson, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said in a Palace press briefing. Nograles pointed out that Duterte's directive led to PhilHealth coming up with its debit-credit payment method (DCPM), which allows hospitals to receive 60 percent of their reimbursement claims even if PhilHealth is not yet done in processing their documentary requirements. "So because of that directive, nagkaroon nitong (we now have this) debit-credit