(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 pregnancies.

The MHO is set to conduct Sexually, Healthy and Personally Empowered (SHAPE) Peer Counseling and Training for the youth in the town to explain the bad consequences of teenage pregnancy. The youngest reported pregnancy was an 11-year old girl who was impregnated by her boyfriend, a 26-year old man.

 

Pangasinan records 700 dengue cases

THE Provincial Health Office recorded some 700 cases of dengue from January to July this year, lower than the 8,742 cases of dengue recorded throughout the province for the same period in 2023. And five already died from dengue this year. These came from Binmaley, Lingayen, Sual and San Carlos City.

The PHO declared 10 towns under dengue watch this year, namely Lingayen, Bugallon, Mangatarem, Binmaley, Urbiztondo, Labrador, San Carlos City, Calasiao, Bayambang and Malasiqui. (Rona Racca)

 

DTI’s Balik-Eskwela Diskwento Caravan until August 31

THE Department of Trade and Industry launched the DTI Balik-Eskwela Discount Caravan that sells school supplies at huge discounted prices in several shopping malls across the province last July 1 and will last till August 31 this year.

DTI Provincial Director Natalia Dalaten called on students and parents to buy school supplies from the Department of Trade and Industry that launched the DTI Balik-Eskwela Discounted Caravan caravan so that they can save money, noting that the prices of school supplies in many stores had already risen from to as much as 25 percent. The caravan can save parents from 5 to 70 percent discount.

 

Reduced tariff on imported rice to hurt local farmers — Bantay Bigas 

FARMERS will lose some P80 billion yearly if the government reduces the tariff on imported rice.  This was the contention of Cathy Estavillo, spokesperson of the group Bantay Bigas, who said a reduced tariff will flood the country with imported rice that will result in reducing the price of palay produced by farmers by as much as P7 per kilo all over the country

She said importation will never bring down the price of rice if the only solution that the government can institute is through importation. Her group, Bantay Bigas, will join in the protest rally during the SONA of President Marcos to call his attention on the true state of agriculture in the country since he promised to bring down the price to P20. Which now sells art P50 (Mathew Pacheco)

 

Price  of eggs up by P2 per piece

 THE sale of eggs in the public markets of Dagupan has slackened since the price of the commodity increased by P2 per egg recently. Vendors told IFM Dagupan that it is no longer easy for retailers to get their supplies from their usual suppliers because of the marked increase in the price of eggs per piece. But the Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura pointed out that it is shortage of supply that triggered the price increase. (Jordan Pulido)

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