(Filed by IFM Dagupan) Teenage pregnancies rising in Mangaldan THE local government of Mangaldan is worried about the increasing number or teenage pregnancy in the town. The Municipal Health Office recorded 96 cases of teenage pregnancy in the town for the last seven months. Last year, the MHO recorded 56 teenage…
COASTAL WATCH IN PANGASINAN INTENSIFIED SOME 900 grams of shabu, placed inside aqua blue plastic pack marked “Cal Yun Li” in Chinese characters were found floating in the water by fishermen in Agno town who were fishing in the West Philippine Sea last week. The Police Regional Office 1 said…
BOYS WANTING TO BECOME MEN – Grade school and high school boys are drawn to the two-day medical mission for their circumcision, organized by the Dagupan City government in cooperation with the UST Medical Missions, Inc. and CSI Group of Companies, Inc. service at West Central Elementary School 1 in Dagupan City last week. (Punchphoto…
MAYOR Belen Fernandez belied rumors being spread by her detractors that she’s running for Congress in the 2025 mid-term election. ” I’m running for reelection. in fact, I can’t wait till October to file my certificate of candidacy,” Fernandez said, briefly departing from her State of the City Address at CSI Stadia….
THE Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in Dagupan City will soon conduct voter registration drives in barangays in preparation for the 2025 midterm elections. In Dagupan City, Atty.Michael Sarmiento, the city election officer, said 90% of the targeted 133,000 registered voters have already been achieved and expects to surpass the target…
DATA at the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) show how breast cancer afflicts the most in Pangasinan than any other type of cancer. Dr. Lazarus Rafacon, a surgical oncologist at R1MC did not disclose the specific number of cancer patients in Pangasinan, but he emphasized in an interview over Aksyon…
MEDICAL MISSION IN BARANGAY MALICO – Residents in Barangay Malico in San Nicolas town wait for their turn to avail of medical, educational and livelihood services of the provincial government’s ‘Lingap ed Barangay’ program last Wednesday. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
THE provincial government’s “Local Initiatives: Guidance and Assistance Program ed Barangay” delivered free health and education services to 120 families in Barangay Malico, a geographically isolated disadvantaged area (GIDA) in San Nicolas, Pangasinan, on July 3 at Malico Elementary School. The residents not only received circumcision, dental services, an electrocardiogram…
SOME 100 pet dogs and cats were vaccinated against rabies, dewormed, spayed, neutered, and received minor surgical services during a free veterinary mission through the collaboration between the local government of Pozorrubio and the Center for Christian Veterinary Mission Pilipinas, Inc. (CCVMP) to promote pet care and wellbeing on July…
STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS MAYOR Belen Fernandez reported to Dagupan residents that the city is already in much better position today than what it was when she began her new term in 2022 with major developments and implementation of new programs in spite of endless attempts of seven opposition…
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