SMOKE-FREE WORKPLACES. BARMM Health Minister Dr. Bashary Latiph (3rd from left) poses with the awardees during the Ministry of Health Red Orchid Awards 2021 awarding ceremonies held in Cotabato City on Monday (Jan. 31, 2022). The award is given to local government units, government offices, hospitals, and jail facilities for implementing 100 percent tobacco-free workplaces and environments in the region. (Photo courtesy of MOH-BARMM) COTABATO CITY - The health minister of the Autonomous Bangsamoro Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) has expressed confidence more institutions will fully implement tobacco-free workplaces and environment programs this year. This came about after the Ministry of Health (MOH) - BARMM has awarded Monday institutions and government offices in the region with "Red Orchid Awards" for effectively enforcing tobacco control measures in its facilities in 2021. "BARMM institutions that fully implement the anti-tobacco program this year will be also be d
Published July 3, 2021, 2:40 PM
DAVAO CITY – The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) inaugurated Friday, July 2, a 100-bed isolation facility for COVID-19 patients in Buluan, Maguindanao.
“This facility is just one of the various infrastructures built throughout the BARMM, in the hope to treat our fellow Bangsamoro who (are) locally infected by this virus,” said Chief Minister Ahod Balawag Ebrahim in his message delivered by Cabinet Secretary Mohn Asnin Pendatun during the inauguration at the Buluan District Hospital (BDH) grounds.
Ebrahim also said that the “building is a living testament that even though the Bangsamoro government is still undergoing the very complex transition period, we are doing everything we could in fulfilling our common aspiration of a better life for all.”
Published March 6, 2021, 4:46 PM
DAVAO CITY – Three hundred health workers from the Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) in Maguindanao received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Sinovac of China last Friday.
Health Minister Dr. Amirel Usman is the first medical frontliner in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) to get a dose of the Sinovac vaccine at the Integrated Provincial Hospital Office (IPHO) in Maguindanao. (Photo courtesy of the Bangsamoro Information Office / MANILA BULLETIN)
“Today marks the beginning of that long been wished for event that a vaccine against coronavirus disease gets into our arms,” IPHO Maguindanao Provincial Health Officer Dr. Elizabeth Samama said in a statement released by the Bangsamoro government.