SunStar CebuDoc group opens physical rehab center
HOLISTIC. The state-of-the-art facility features complete rehabilitation medicine equipment and offers holistic services that help patients regain mobility after an injury, surgery or illness. / CEBUDOC GROUP’S FACEBOOK PAGE
+ January 17, 2021 TO SERVE patients with physical and developmental disabilities, the CebuDoc Group has launched its new Center for Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (CPRM) at the CebuDoc Health and Science Bldg. along Osmeña Blvd., Cebu City.
The center offers various rehabilitative specialties of physiatry, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech language pathology and orthotics prosthetics.
“We envisioned this center to be outside the hospital which makes it accessible and convenient for the patients. It is very timely as well because with the coronavirus pandemic, patients don’t really want to go inside the hospital,” CebuDoc Group president
Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian(Senate of the Philippines / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
Gatchalian, chairman of the Senate energy committee, took note of the January 4, 2021 directive issued by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to VECO demanding an explanation on the high cost of electricity. The directive cited that from January to October 2020, the power purchases made from Cebu Private Power Corp. (CPPC) averaged at P35.3853 per kilowatt hour (kWh), with generation rate spiking significantly high at P1,470.90 per kWh for the month of September last year.
“Kung mapapatunayan na hindi makatwiran ang singil ng VECO, dapat ibalik nila ang binayad ng mga kunsyumer. Mandato ng ERC na protektahan ang interes ng publiko lalo na kung may pang-aabuso ngang nagawa,” Gatchalian said. (If it is proven that the VECO electricity rate is not justified, it is but right that it refunds the payments made by consumers. It is the mandate of ERC that it protects the interest of the public, parti
Existing generating facilities with definitive expansion plans will be excluded from the coverage of the coal moratorium policy that was finally firmed up by the Department of Energy (DOE) in an advisory that it issued this week.
Aside from expansion projects, exempted from the prohibited coal pl
Samples of coffee produced in SOCCSKSARGEN Region
KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, Jan. 6 (PIA) SOCCSKSARGEN Region s Regional Development Council (RDC XII) enjoins government offices to support efforts advancing the region s coffee industry.
RDC XII, in its 71st regular meeting on December 7, passed Resolution No. 103 s. 2020 requesting all regional line agencies and local government units in SOCCSKSARGEN Region to serve locally-produced coffee during meetings and similar activities.
Said resolution backs an earlier decision of the Economic Development Committee (EDC) XII recognizing local coffee production as one of the important growing industries in the region that can provide employment and additional income for small farmers.
DAGUPAN CITY, Dec. 29 (PIA) - The Regional Research, Development and Innovation Committee in the Ilocos (RRDIC-1), as the research and innovation coordinating arm of the Regional Development Council in the Ilocos (RDC-1), has launched a series of webinars to endorse seven technologies born from government-funded researches.
Regional Director Armando Ganal of the Department of Science and Technology in Ilocos, who sits as RRDIC chair, said the webinars aim to introduce the features and potential benefits of the technologies to the local government units and other interested adopters.
“Technology generates new technologies. It supports the growth of biotechnology industry in the Philippines and contributes to the macroeconomic growth of the country. Local scientists will also have more opportunity to hone their skills, Ganal said.