Cebu City councilor wants mental health helplines set up

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 07/22/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Councilor Alvin Dizon is urging the City Health Department (CHD) to set up mental health helplines in health facilities including the Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC). Dizon said in a resolution…

Cebu City to VVOC: We deserve more vaccines

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/25/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The vaccine supply cannot catch up with Cebu City’s speedy vaccination program. The Cebu City Health Department (CHD) reported that they had completed the roll-out of nearly 5,000 Sinovac vaccines in only one…

Cebu City Health needs supplemental approved to hire more doctors, nurses

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/04/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Health Department (CHD) is banking on the approval of the P206 million budget they have proposed to the City Council’s committee on budget and finance to be able to hire…

Appeal to Cebu City gov’t: Reopen farmer’s market

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/27/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Around 56 farmers in Cebu City uplands is sincerely appealing to Mayor Edgardo Labella to reopen the farmers’ market or “tabo” at Plaza Sugbo with the overproduction of vegetables this season. City Agriculuture…

Dengue cases in Cebu City drop significantly – CHD

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/15/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The dengue cases in Cebu City have significantly dropped from January to May 2021 as compared to the same period in 2020. The Cebu City Health Department (CHD) revealed that in the first…

Walk-ins, anxiety, cause bottleneck in vaccine roll-out in Cebu City

Delta Derycka C. Letigio 03/24/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The vaccine roll-out among barangay health workers in Cebu City has been so far successful, but not without its challenges. City Health Department (CHD) officer-in-charge, Doctor Jeffrey Ibones, said that one of the…

Cebu City contact tracers assured: Salaries to be released by year’s end

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 11/27/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Health Department has assured the public that the salaries of over 200 contact tracers hired by the city government since July 2020 will be released by the end of 2020.…

Cebu City records 150 new COVID cases for July 2

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 07/02/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City recorded 150 new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases on July 2, 2020 with 13 deaths and 88 recoveries. In the data released by the Cebu City Health Department (CHD), they revealed…

8 new COVID cases reported in Lapu on May 22

Doris C. Bongcac 05/23/2020

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – Eight new cases of the coronavirus disease were reported in Lapu-Lapu City on Friday, May 22, 2020. Mayor Junard Chan said in a Facebook post that the new cases were discovered from ongoing…

Casas to Villa: Don’t make me a scapegoat

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/09/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Administrator Floro Casas, Jr., expressed in an official statement his dismay over City Health Officer Daisy Villa’s claims during a Cebu City Council special session that he lied about the supposed…

Cebu City Health Dep’t intensifies pest control in the city

Delta Derycka C. Letigio 02/08/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Health Department (CHD has become concerned with the recent online post of rodents seen inside food establishments such as the famous barbecue hub, Larsian, and a bakery in downtown Cebu…

Villa: 1 in Cebu City placed under home quarantine

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 02/05/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Health Department (CHD) is closely monitoring a person under investigation (PUI) for the 2019-novel coronavirus (2019-nCov) who is now undergoing home quarantine in one of the barangays here. City Health…

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