KPH limits admission as 25 hospital staff catch COVID-19
Philippine Information Agency
29 Apr 2021, 20:38 GMT+10
CITY OF TABUK, Kalinga, April 29 (PIA) - The Kalinga Provincial Hospital has limited admission of non-COVID patients as 25 of the hospital staff are isolated for testing positive for COVID-19.
Last April 26, the KPH issued an advisory that 13 of its health workers had positive RT-PCR test results. Yesterday, Chief-of-Hospital Dr Marilyn T. Duyan confirmed that 12 more hospital staff tested positive for COVID-19.
The 25 are among the 31 hospital workers who were swabbed due to direct exposure to COVID-19 patients this month.
Chief-of-Hospital Dr Marilyn T. Duyan said mandatory swabbing of the more than 300 KPH personnel is now ongoing. The KPH has recorded 58 health frontliners positive of COVID-19 since January 2021.
Published April 19, 2021, 4:03 PM
TABUK CITY, Kalinga – What was supposed to be a happy family outing ended in tragedy after the Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) they were riding in fell into an irrigation canal, killing 13 people, most of them children, in Barangay Bulo here Sunday.
Tabuk police chief Police Col. Radino Belly said a black Ford Everest with license plates AAK 9184 driven by Jail Officer 1 Soy Lope Agtulao, 36, plunged into the irrigation canal and submerged in the water at about 6 p.m.
Authorities said Soy died along with her children Cydwin Lope, 6, and Cyan Lope, 4; her sister Sony Puking Lope, 22; her father Alfredo Cutit Lope, 59; relatives Judilyn Talawec Dumayom, 31; Seadarn Dumayom, 5; Jeslyn Dumayom,4; Remedios Longey Basilio, 56; Jessibel Basilio Paycao, 27; Cedric Basilio Paycao, 4; Scarlet Paycao, 3; and Marlo Gel Perena, 6.
SunStar
+ April 13, 2021 A DRUG trafficker was arrested after trying to escape from operatives of the Regional Intelligence Division (RID) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Tabuk City, Kalinga by jumping into the Chico river.
“Escape gone wrong,” said Kalinga Provincial Police Office (KPPO) Director Police Colonel Davy Limmong after Ruben Appag, 27, of Loccong, Tinglayan, Kalinga, was arrested after his failed attempt to evade arrest.
Appag was rescued by personnel of the Bureau of Fire Protection. He sustained several injuries after jumping into the river.
Confiscated from the suspect were two bags containing four tubes and 19 bricks of suspected marijuana dried leaves and stalks with an estimated weight of around 23 kilos and worth P2,760,000.
SunStar Cordillera starts Covid vaccination
CORDILLERA’S FIRST. Doctor Ricardo Runez, medical chief of the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center, receives the first shot of Sinovac which arrived in Baguio City on March 4. The 7,800 doses of vaccine will be distributed to all government hospitals in the Cordillera Administrative Region which seeks to inoculate 70 percent of its population to achieve herd immunity from Covid-19. (Photo by Jonathan Llanes)
+ March 05, 2021 MORE than 8,000 government and private hospitals in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) will begin to receive their share of the Sinovac vaccine, following the start of the inoculation procedures conducted at the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC) on Friday, March 5, 2021.
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