DAVAO del Sur Gov. Yvonne R. Cagas (center) receives the community shares check from Hedcor Inc. VP for Operations and Maintenance Leo Lungay (second from right). Present during the ceremony were (from left) AboitizPower External Relations Theodore Bisnar, Vice Gov. Ai-Ai Cagas-Fernandez, Special As
The Sandiganbayan has granted the appeal of a former congressman of Davao del Sur to be placed under probation instead of serving his two-year prison sentence over his conviction in the pork barrel scam.
Former Davao del Sur vice governor Marc Douglas Cagas IV may spend up to two years in prison for misuse of nearly P13 million of his Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel when he was congressman from 2007 to 2009.
DIGOS CITY - The Department of Health (DOH) has officially declared the downgrading of the Davao del Sur Provincial Hospital (DSPH) from a Level 2 hospital to an infirmary category. In a letter dated Jan. 24, 2022, Dr. Teodora M. Eugenio, OIC-Director of the DOH Health Facilities and Services Regulatory Bureau (HFSRB), informed Dr. Jaime Marcelo Razo, Davao del Sur Provincial Hospital chief of office, that the DSPH has been downgraded to the infirmary class. Eugenio, in her letter, said the DOH-HFSRB had sent a letter through e-mail on Jan. 14, 2022 to Razo regarding the status of the DSPH hospital renewal application for the year 2022 and gave a compliance period of six days to settle all the noted deficiencies. However, based on the copy obtained by the media, the administrator of the provincial hospital failed to submit all the requirements within the specified time frame, prompting the DOH-HFSRB to issue the new category for the DSPH decreasing its capability to infirmary level. Th