IF there is one legacy that the Espino III administration will long be remembered for in its last term, it’d be the effective management not only of the COVID-19 pandemic but the upgrading of the services of provincial hospitals that provided quality health care for the poorest.

Governor Amado Espino III was at the forefront, leading a team that refused to lose in the 24/7 battle against the COVID virus and its subsequent variants since 2020. What the administration could not achieve in the economic field in the face of restrictive measures set by the IATF, Guv Pogi’s team delivered to its constituents the best management in health services in the province during the pandemic.

Because Pangasinan is the most populated province in Central Luzon, it was only logical for most to predict that that it’d be one of the most hard hit provinces. But the exact opposite happened. Pangasinan was one of the earliest that attained Alert Level One in the country!

Monitoring the daily and weekly activities of the provincial IATF under Guv Pogi’s leadership always kindled new and dynamic hope that Pangasinan can easily shift to the New Normal, with the least social costs.

It is in this regard that The PUNCH salutes Guv Pogi, Dr. Anna de Guzman, Col. Rhodyn Oro for the yeoman’s job they performed to combat COVID-19. Because of them, Pangasinenses were mostly safe from the impact of the pandemic.

 

Feisty Gwen

GOVERNOR Gwen Garcia of Cebu hogged the headlines last week because of her defiance to a Malacanang order still requiring every Filipino to wear a face mask when in public.  The feisty provincial chief insists the order was “only recommendatory,” telling her constituents through a directive that the use of face masks “is now optional” in Cebu.   The issue, crazily boiling down to a tug-of-war between President Duterte and Garcia, forced Justice Secretary Medardo Guevarra to say that the President’s order is superior over anyone at all times.  Marinduque Governor Presbiterio Velasco, head of the country’s league of governors and a former Supreme Court Justice, concurred with Guevarra.  But Garcia has not backed down.  Interior Secretary Ed Ano, whose department supervises Local Government Unit heads that include Garcia, said a dialogue “will smoothen things out.”

The nation waits with bated breathe.

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