IT’S still summertime but dengue cases in Pangasinan have already increased by 26 percent from January to date. Dr. Anna de Guzman, provincial health officer, told Aksyon Radyo Dagupan last Thursday that 1,146 dengue cases have been reported this year but with no fatality. Compared to last year, De Guzman said…
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP)urged local executives, that include mayors and barangay chairpersons, to provide a security of tenure to their Barangay Health Workers (BHWs) whose services are indispensable in this time of the pandemic. Fourth District Board Member Jeremy Agerico Rosario, SP chairman on the committee on health, filed a resolution after…
THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) has granted the request of the Dagupan City Police Station to revoke the deed of donation it entered with the Dagupan City government in 2006 over a property on Hererro-Perez where the old Dagupan City Police Station used to be located. The Dagupan PNP station has…
GOV. Amado Espino III is expected to sign a Memorandum of Agreement with the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) for the continuous implementation of the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis (PMDT) project in the province. The Sangguinang Panlalawigan authorized the signing of the agreement for the continuation of the…
FIRE VICTIMS GIVEN A CHOICE – A mother, accompanied by her daughters, rummages through donated clothes, and also given a choice to pick up sacks of cement bags to help reconstruct their homes, Courtesy of Filco Merchandising. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) called for a closed coordination between public and private hospitals and the Dagupan City government amid reports of continuously soaring COVID-19 cases in the National Capital Region (NCR+) and are finding themselves admitted in Dagupan and Pangasinan. The call was made by Councilor Michael Fernandez, the…
THE Region 1 Medical Center in Dagupan City assured that it will continue to cater to poor patients including those turned away by private hospitals during the pandemic. This was assured by Dr. Arnel Gazmen, chief of clinics of R1MC, as he revealed that the hospital continues to serve poor patients or…
THERE were already 15,747 medical frontliners in Pangasinan that have been inoculated with COVID-19 vaccines. This was revealed by Dr. Anna de Guzman, provincial health officer, in an interview. She said these persons were included in the priority eligible population, namely priority groups A 1.1, and A 1.2, said de…
THE spread of misinformation on social media remains to be a challenge to the government’s vaccination program, reason why some are still hesitant to take the COVID-19 vaccines. DOH-CHD 1 spokesperson Dr. Rheuel Bobis said among the worst fake news he saw was a person might become a zombie one…
DUE to increasing COVID-19 cases, persons coming from the National Capital Region and high-risk areas will need to present their negative RT-PCR result with three days validity when going home to Bani town effective April 9. Bani Mayor Gwen Palafox-Yamamoto added that that they also need to present their proof…
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