BRING them to court. This was the call made by the Office of Senior Citizens Affairs (OSCA) as complaints against business establishments that refuse to comply with or skirt around the law that require extending the mandated 20% discount to cardbearing senior citizens for certain goods and services.
LINGAYEN—The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) has approved Provincial resolution No. 868-2011 ratifying the memorandum of agreement (MOA) entered into by Gov. Amado Espino, Jr. and the National Food Authority (NFA) on the rice loan program of the province for relief operations.
HELP FROM DDB–Dangerous Drugs Board Chairman Antonio “Bebot” Villar Jr. turns over two checks worth more than P6 million to Dagupan Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez as part of the P10 million assistance fund for the construction of the drug rehabilitation center in the city, which will be operated by the…
THE Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) has turned over P6 million to the Region 1 Medical Center last week for the construction of the dormitory and recreational facilities of the Treatment and Drug Rehabilitation Center in Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City.
THE Maternal & Child Health Care and Anti-Violence against Women and Children Act seminars, sponsored by Senator Pia S. Cayetano, were held simultaneously held in Dagupan last week in line with the city’s observance of Family and Children’s Month.
ADOPT-A-BARANGAY—Doctors and other health workers from the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital (PPH) provide basic health care and medical services to children and adults in Barangays Dupo, Salapingao and Caloocan Sur in Binmaley town under the Adopt-A-Barangay project. The beneficiaries received free consultation, medicines, electro-cardiography, blood typing, and lectures on environmental sanitation,…
SANENGSENG CHORAL COMPETITION THE Dagupan City National High School (DCNHS) and the Francisco Q. Duque Medical Foundation Special Science High School (FQDMFSSHS) were adjudged champions among public and private schools, respectively, in the Sanengseng Choral Competition held October 14 in Dagupan.
PINK AWARD–The Region One Medical Center bags the Pink Award from the Department of Health for compliance to the agency’s “no smoking” policy. Dr. Roland Mejia, R1MC director, said they could have won the higher Red Orchid Award had workers at the various construction sites at the hospital not been…
THE Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC), with its imposing facade, has also undertaken major improvements in its facilities. Dr. Roland Mejia, chief of R1MC, said in a media briefing last week that the government-owned hospital is now at par with modern hospitals in Metro Manila and all the development is…
CITY Health authorities advised the public to be discerning in buying toys as gifts for the Christmas holidays and be alert about toys that may contain toxic chemicals.
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