THE Department of Health – Ilocos Region announced last week that it will provide mobilization funds and added financial incentives to local government units (LGUs) to meet their vaccination targets and address the increasing number of susceptible children against vaccine-preventable diseases (VPD) in the country. Regional Director Paula Sydiongco said…
TWO displaced overseas Filipino workers (OFW) from Dagupan City received on Monday P50,000 each as financial assistance from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) in Region 1. The beneficiaries, Fatima Dela Cruz and Rolando Andal, both residents of Barangay Bonuan Boquig, returned to the country from the Republic of Sudan…
OWWA provides financial assistance to displaced OFWs
AFTER successive landslides hitting the Caraballo Mountains, the Villa Verde Trail reopens to motorists and guests. Shallom Balolong of the San Nicolas Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Office said clearing operations have been completed, prompting the reopening of the road towards the province’s summer capital. The San Nicolas local government collaborated…
Villa Verde Trail reopens after landslides
(From 104.7 IFM Dagupan News) Mangaldan SP holds public hearings to regulate swimming in river THE Sangguniang Bayan of Mangaldan is conducting a series of public hearings on the proposed ordinance that seeks to regulate swimming in the Angalacan River to prevent more drowning in the area. The ordinance…
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LEADING BY EXAMPLE — Governor Ramon Guico III administers an oral poliovirus vaccine to a four-year-old child, witnessed Dr. Valerie Anne Tesoro (left) director of the Department of Health (DOH) Health Laboratories Office, during provincial launching of Measles-Rubella Oral Polio Vaccine Supplemental Immunization Activity (MROPV SIA 2023). (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
LEADING BY EXAMPLE
THE provincial government and the Department of Health (DOH) – Ilocos Region recently launched the Measles Rubella and bivalent Oral Polio virus Vaccine Supplementary Immunization Activities (MR-bOPV SIA) 2023 in Lingayen town. DOH is targeting 262,944 children aged 9-59 months old that will be administered with measles, rubella (MR) vaccines…
Capitol launches MR-OPV SIA in Lingayen

WALKING THROUGH KALUTAN — Mayor Belen Fernandez leads the city’s distinguished guests in a leisure walk around the Kalutan ed Dagupan and Bangusan Street Party area. She is joined by DILG Secretary Benhur Abalos, Alice Eduardo, former Rep. Manay Gina, former Speaker Joe De Venecia, Small Luade and visitors from the Department of Foreign…
WALKING THROUGH KALUTAN
MAJORITY: SIMILAR OUTPUTS IN 2022, 2023 BUDGETS DAGUPAN Councilor and Minority Floor Leader Michael Fernandez, slammed the majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod for erroneously drawing similarities between the passage of the 2022 annual budget by the past SP majority, and passage of the annual budget this year by the new…
Minority: “Really? Saan…paano?”

FOR the second time this year, Senator Alan Peter Cayetano extended help to indigent patients in Pangasinan, among them cancer patients and a child born with a rare health condition. The two-day medical caravan, held on May 3 and 4, 2023, was able to help more than 400 patients with…
Patients with cancer, other diseases in Pangasinan get help from Cayetano’s medical caravan
(Filed by 104.7 IFM Dagupan News) Price of rice at Malimgas remains unchanged THE price of rice at the Malimgas Public Market in Dagupan City remains the same despite its reported shortage. A survey showed that the cheapest rice that one can buy at Malingas costs P35 per kilo while…