DSWD turns over P18.9 M isolation facility to Alegria town

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 05/28/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has unveiled one of its biggest isolation facilities in Cebu Province through the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS) in…

IC3 will no longer be an isolation center

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 01/21/2022

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — The IEC Convention Center Cebu (IC3) will no longer be an isolation center despite earlier plans to transform it into an isolation facility. The facility should have had 300 beds and would…

Lapu-Lapu City opens another isolation facility

Futch Anthony Inso 09/22/2021

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — The Lapu-Lapu City Government has formally opened on Wednesday, September 22, 2021, its second isolation facility located at the Mactan National High School. The isolation facility can accommodate 260 Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)…

Isolating patient hits untidy state of City Central School isolation facility

Dyrecka Letigio 08/28/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) will be checking the conditions of the City Central School isolation facility after a patient complained on social media about the facility’s untidy state. Kris Lang,…

Bañacia thanks Lapu City Council for approving P43M for city’s COVID-19 response

Futch Anthony Inso 08/13/2021

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Lapu-Lapu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO) head Nagiel Bañacia has expressed gratitude to the members of the city council after they approved the P43,984,569 budget intended for the city’s Coronavirus…

Lapu to open another isolation facility soon

Futch Anthony Inso 08/11/2021

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu—The Lapu-Lapu City Government will open another isolation facility as soon as possible. This Lapu-Lapu Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan said after the city’s isolation facility at the Lapu-Lapu City College has already reached its full…

CCSC still open for joggers until 1st patient comes in

Morexette Marie Erram 08/08/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Cebu City on Sunday, August 8, opened another isolation facility for COVID-19 patients. Called the Mega Stay In Center, the 150-bed facility, is housed within the Cebu City Sports Center (CCSC). City government…

Cebu City Sports Center mulled as mega-isolation facility

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 07/23/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is eyeing the possibility of transforming the Cebu City Sports Center (CCSC) into a mega-isolation facility. This developed as the current number of isolation beds in…

EOC not worried with closure of NOAH

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/15/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is not too worried about the closure of the New Oasis for Adaptation and a Home (NOAH) Complex at the end of this month. NOAH is…

Mandaue City’s EOC chief notes ‘slight drop’ in active cases

Mary Rose Sagarino 03/30/2021

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines- Mandaue City still has 964 active cases of the coronavirus disease as of March 28, 2021, data from the Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) showed. But the accommodation of individuals who tested…

Lapu gov’t eyes DOH accreditation for Hoops Dome as isolation facility

Futch Anthony Inso 03/24/2021

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu—The Lapu-Lapu City Government wants the Hoops Dome in Barangay Gun-ob to get accreditation from the Department of Health (DOH) to be an isolation facility. Lapu-Lapu Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan said that they already have…

Gwen: Covid isolation facilities now a lucrative business 

Morexette Marie B. Erram 02/10/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia has been publicly raising reports, alleging irregularities of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) claims from the state’s health insurance corporation. The latest involved isolation facilities for patients infected with COVID-19.  Garcia,…

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