Sick, abandoned dogs in Cebu City face death

Ador Vincent Mayol, Nestle Semilla, Wenilyn Sabalo 05/30/2023

CEBU CITY, Cebu, Philippines — At least 77 abandoned dogs in this city may have to be euthanized due to their deteriorating health condition. Dr. Jessica Maribojoc, the Cebu City veterinarian, said these dogs were among the…

More fall ill due to spill; oil slick reaches Palawan

Dexter Cabalza, Geraldford Ticke, Madonna Virola 03/11/2023

CITY OF CALAPAN — At least 81 residents in the coastal villages of Pola town in Oriental Mindoro have fallen ill due to the industrial oil spilled by the sunken tanker MT Princess Empress that has washed…

Trinity in the family

Fr. Jerry M. Orbos SVD - @inquirerdotnet 06/12/2022

The story is told about a little boy who approached the priest after the Mass and told him that he was donating his allowance money which he had saved. When the priest asked him why, almost in…

Police: No foul play in death of man, who was found dead inside his house in Talisay

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 06/05/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Police have ruled out foul play over the death of a 56-year-old man, who was found dead inside his house in Sitio Mananga 2 in Barangay Tabunok, Talisay City, at past 10 a.m.…

Boy from Toledo City with relapsed leukemia pleads for help

PR 12/13/2019

An eleven-year-old boy from Barangay Poblacion, Toledo City pleads for financial help as he presses on with his journey towards complete healing against childhood cancer. John Carl Benting was first diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) last…

P4M aid to give indigent patients in Bantayan town free boat ride to mainland Cebu hospitals

Rosalie O. Abatayo 01/10/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Sick indigent patients in Bantayan town in northern Cebu, who would need to be transported by ambulance from the district hospital to a provincial hospital on mainland Cebu, would not have to worry…

Priest jokes during Mass for Trillanes: ‘I prayed Duterte will get sick’

Inquirer.net 09/06/2018

A priest who celebrated Mass to pray for the peaceful resolution to the chaos brought about by the arrest order against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV joked during the homily that he prayed for President Rodrigo Duterte to…

Osmeña: No work stoppage on CCMC

Morexette Marie B. Erram 05/26/2018

The construction of the Cebu City Medical Center has not stopped. Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña on Saturday belied reports that he suspended the construction of the new CCMC building, saying this is nothing but “fake news.”…

Papal nuncio visits sick, elderly priests

Ador Vincent Mayol 01/25/2018

  The representative of Pope Francis in the Philippines on Tuesday skipped the afternoon session of seminary formators in the country to visit the sick and elderly priests in Cebu. Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia, the Apostolic Nuncio…

19 became sick of dengue after getting Dengvaxia shot – DOH

Futch Anthony Inso, Jessa Mae Sotto 12/27/2017

  The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) has already identified 19 children who were given the anti-dengue vaccine this year and became sick with dengue. Dr. Jaime Bernadas, DOH-7 director, said 18 of the children…

Construction of cancer center starts Dec. 1

Futch A. Inso 11/29/2017

WORK on the cancer center of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) starts tomorrow, December 1, a hospital official said yesterday. Dr. Antonio Roque Paradela, VSMMC chief of professional medical clinics, said the cancer center building…

Capitol wants to reduce dengue cases

Morexette Erram 07/14/2017

THE Cebu Provincial Health Office (PHO) will target the reduction of dengue cases to 200 a month. Cyril Pangatungan, Provincial Epidemiology Surveillance Unit Officer, said the number of dengue patients from the first half of 2016 and…

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