MANILA -The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Wednesday reminded the public to refrain from engaging with unknown individuals and not to give sensitive personal information through text message, email, or phone call to any stranger. In a press statement, the department advised the public to be extra vigilant and not to entertain text messages about "unclaimed" relief allowances or any other supposed benefit allegedly being granted by any DSWD office. The stern warning came out after the DSWD received a report from a concerned citizen about a text message circulating among mobile phone users regarding the alleged "unclaimed" relief allowances for senior citizens and retired business owners. The DSWD clarified that "it is not true." "The department did not issue or publish such a message. Likewise, there is no such relief allowance that is being provided to the seniors," the statement read. However, the agency said its financia
COVID-19 PROTECTION. Dennis Toledo poses with his two sons, aged 10 and 11 after they were inoculated during the launch of pediatric vaccination for children aged 5 to 11 years old in Iligan City on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. Posing with them is the doctor who gave the vaccine jab to the boys. (PNA photo by Divina M. Suson) ILIGAN CITY - The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccination rollout for pediatric categories here was launched on Wednesday at the Adventist Medical Center Iligan (AMCI) in Barangay Tibanga. Ed Krishna Alivio, the city health office (CHO) education and promotion officer, said they target to inoculate 57,480 children aged 5 to 11 years old. The children will be vaccinated for their first dose in three months as per advice by the Department of Health (DOH). "We target to inoculate 1,300 kids daily to reach the 60 percent of the total number of children we target to be vaccinated in one month from the start of the roll-out. That is the advice we got from the
SHED LIGHT. North Cotabato 2nd District Rep. Rudy Caoagdan on Wednesday (Feb. 9, 2022) says he has filed a House resolution seeking a probe on the delays of the government housing project for 2019 earthquake victims in North Cotabato. The lawmaker said he filed Resolution 01-2022 requesting the House Committee on Good Governance to investigate the matter. (Photo courtesy of the office of Rep. Caoagdan) COTABATO CITY - North Cotabato 2nd District Rep. Rudy Caoagdan has filed a bill seeking a congressional investigation as to why, despite the national government's intervention, many earthquake-displaced families in the 2019 calamity remained at evacuation sites in the province. On Wednesday, Caoagdan said he filed Resolution 01-2022 requesting the House Committee on Good Governance to investigate, in aid of legislation, the release of allocation by the national government through the National Housing Authority (NHA) for the establishment of evacuation facilities, housing and relocati