Capitol sets P25.8M budget for hospitals

Nestle L. Semilla 11/15/2016

The Provincial Board (PB) set aside a P25.8 million supplemental budget for provincial and district hospitals in its session last Monday. Provincial Board member Miguel Magpale said the budget will fund the purchase of medicines and medical…

Arleigh Sitoy, former PB member, passes on at 58

Nestle L. Semilla 11/14/2016

“HE wanted to live.” Presidential Legislative Liaison Office (PLLO) head Adelino Sitoy said that his son, former provincial board member Arleigh Sitoy, fought for his life until the end. “Iyahang gusto g’yud di unta siya kuhaon usa…

Hospital upgrades prioritized in Capitol’s 2017 budget

Nestle L. Semilla 11/02/2016

Cebu’s countryside residents will no longer have to travel to Cebu City for their hospitalization needs if plans to upgrade the hospitals in the cities of Danao and Carcar push through next year. Almost 25 percent of…

3 dead, 10 hurt in Argao accident

Jhunnex Napallacan 10/25/2016

A Canter truck loaded with vegetables for the city’s biggest public market lost its brakes and killed two boys and one adult past 1 p.m. on Tuesday in Argao town, southern Cebu. Ten passengers of the truck…

Bizman killed in upland Cebu City

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 10/24/2016

A STORE owner was shot dead by an unknown assailant in the mountain barangay of Taptap, Cebu City past 6 p.m. on Sunday. PO3 Cristobal Geronimo of the Cebu City police’s homicide division said Ian Goc-ong sustained…

Are you brave enough to enter the horror hospital?

Apple Ta-as 10/20/2016

You’re lost in an abandoned building. An eerie calm fills the air. All is still except for a flickering light and what sounds like water dripping. The faint sound of a woman wailing… Footsteps echo along the…

PHO eyes P200M budget next year

Izobelle T. Pulgo 10/11/2016

THE Cebu provincial government is looking into a P200-million budget for next year in order to focus on the upgrading of two major district hospitals considered as “gateways” in the province — the district hospital in Carcar…

DON’T FEAR ZIKA

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 09/21/2016

“Do not be scared of Zika.” This was the message conveyed by Dr. Jaime Bernadas, director of the Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7), following reports that there are nine new cases of the mosquito-borne Zika…

Pinamungajan district hospital personnel seek doctor’s removal

Nestle L. Semilla 09/14/2016

STAFF nurses and nursing attendants of the Dr. Jose Ma. V. Borromeo Memorial District Hospital of Pinamungajan town in southwestern Cebu are seeking the transfer or removal of a doctor of the hospital for “unprofessional behavior” towards…

Espinosa confined; brother also in Cebu

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/09/2016

Controversial Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. is confined in a Metro Cebu hospital since last Saturday, the regional Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA-7) said yesterday. “He was admitted to a hospital because of chest pains,” regional PDEA…

Dr. Duterte back as CCMC chief

Nestle L. Semilla 07/19/2016

CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña has brought in the former Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC) chief, Dr. Gloria Duterte, to become again the city hospital’s new chief under the new administration. Duterte was the CCMC chief before…

Electrician lands in hospital for accidentally touching live wire

Edison Delos Angeles 07/19/2016

AN electrician of Barangay Guadalupe is in critical condition after he touched a live wire while trying to fix electric wires damaged by strong winds and rains which hit Metro Cebu area past 2 p.m. on Tuesday.…

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