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VAX ROLLOUT. The provincial government of Negros Oriental is offering cash incentives to health centers with high-performance vaccination ratings. This comes as the Provincial Health Office reported a poor accomplishment of about 58 percent of its target population of 1,148.424 individuals. (PNA file photo) DUMAGUETE CITY - The provincial government of Negros Oriental is offering some incentives to health centers to boost their coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccination efforts following a low performance this year. Provincial Health Officer (PHO) Dr. Liland Estacion told the Philippine News Agency on Wednesday that Gov. Roel Degamo promised to give cash rewards to the best municipal or city health units at the end of the year with the highest vaccination record. "This will hopefully bolster the efforts of the municipal and city health offices as well as rural health units to encourage the communities they serve to have themselves vaccinated against Covid-19 or to get their booste ....
(Photo courtesy of Maj. Erwen Diploma) MANILA - The 82-member Philippine Inter-Agency Humanitarian Contingent (PIAHC) in Trkiye will be arriving around 10 p.m. Tuesday. "The PIAHC will be arriving on 28 February 2023, at around 10 p.m., at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3," the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said in an advisory. Before its departure from the quake-battered nation, the Philippine Emergency Medical Assistance Team (PEMAT), which is attached to the PIAHC aided 1,022 patients in Trkiye's southeastern city of Adiyaman from Feb. 11 to 24. The PIAHC left the Philippines for Istanbul on Feb. 8 and arrived there the next day. Meanwhile, PIAHC's urban search and rescue (USAR) team retrieved six bodies and assessed 36 buildings from Feb. 10 to 15. The OCD earlier said Ankara will no longer accept a second contingent from Manila to help in operations in the aftermath of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that rocked the country last February as the chan ....
(File photo courtesy of OCD) MANILA - The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said the Philippine Emergency Medical Assistance Team (PEMAT), which is part of the 82-man Philippine Inter-Agency Humanitarian Contingent (PIAHC), has so far served and treated 938 Turkish patients as of Thursday (local time). "The PEMAT started its operations at 0900H 23 February 2023. The PEMAT catered to ambulatory cases and referral of cases requiring hospitalization," the OCD said in a statement on Friday. The patients catered to by the PEMAT are as follows: Feb. 11 - 14 patients Feb. 12 - 41 patients Feb. 13 - 60 patients Feb. 14 - 53 patients Feb. 15 - 88 patients Feb. 16 - 97 patients Feb. 17 - 105 patients Feb. 18 - 81 patients Feb. 19 - 64 patients Feb. 20 - 65 patients Feb. 21 - 82 patients Feb. 22 - 103 patients Feb. 23 - 85 patients It added that PEMAT's last day of operation will be on Friday. "DOH (Department of Health) continues to provide medical assistance to the P ....
SHOOTOUT. An operative of the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, who was driving a white Mitsubishi Montero during a sting operation with two alleged gunrunners, was injured in a shootout along with the suspects in Bacolod City on Friday (Feb. 24, 2022). The three are now being treated in a private hospital in the city.(Photo courtesy of Bacolod City Police Office) BACOLOD CITY - A personnel of the Philippine National Police- Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) and two suspected gunrunners were injured in a shootout during a sting operation in Barangay Taculing here before noon on Friday. In a report from the Bacolod City Police Office, the policeman was identified as Cpl. Rey Sivestre, who is being treated at The Doctors' Hospital here. The suspects, Michael Bintoroso, 44, a resident of Barangay Codcod, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental province; and Alex Villegas, 33, of Barangay Pahanocoy here, are also admitted in the same ....
(Photo courtesy of OCD) MANILA - The 82-member Philippine Inter-Agency Humanitarian Contingent (PIAHC) to Trkiye will be back in the country by March 1. "The team will (be) back in the Philippines not later than March 1, 2023," Office of Civil Defense (OCD) spokesperson Assistant Secretary Bernardo Rafaelito Alejandro IV said in an update Tuesday. He added that both teams of the PIAHC, the Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) and Philippine Emergency Medical Assistance Team (PEMAT), will be ceasing their operations by Feb. 24 (local time). "Due to the decrease in chance of finding signs of life and rescuing survivors, the USAR team of the PIAHC was earlier placed on stand-by awaiting request for assistance on retrieval operations from the Turkish Local Emergency Management Authorities," Alejandro said. The Filipino USAR team has so far assessed 38 buildings and recovered four cadavers from the rubble. However, the OCD spokesperson said the PEMAT continues to provide medic ....