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CEBU CITY, Philippines — The children ages 5 years old and below, who have not completed their poliovirus immunization, will be the priority for Cebu City’s mass vaccination to prevent polio infection after its presence has been…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH – 7) is now targeting to inoculate an estimated 20,000 children in Mandaue City to prevent the re-emergence of polio. Data from the National Immunization…
CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) in Central Visayas might cancel their planned river clean-up activity in the Butuanon River in Mandaue City. This is after the Department of…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Vice Mayor Michael Rama is concerned with the recent rise of diseases in the city from the poliovirus presence in the Butuan River to the increase in the fatality rate of…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Health Department (CHD) is proposing a mass vaccination here to protect its around 30, 000 children aged 10-years-old and below from poliovirus infection. “We cannot just look into the areas…
MANDAUE CITY, Cebu —The Mandaue City Health Office (MCHO) launched on Tuesday, February 18, 2020, a door to door anti-polio vaccination for children who missed their doses of the anti-polio vaccine. Dr. Rosemarie Ouano-Tirado, city health officer,…
CEBU CITY, Philippines—Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella wants the other rivers in the city to be tested for poliovirus after the Department of Health (DOH) revealed that Butuanon River tested positive for the virus. In a phone…
MANDAUE CITY, Philippines – Rivers played a vital role throughout humanity’s existence. In history, they were used as indicators where some of the world’s first civilizations flourished. In art and literature, the little streams connecting to them…
MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — Government officials in two of Cebu’s major cities are now identifying relocation sites for those who will be affected by their plans to clear ‘danger zones’ along the Butuanon River. These were just…
MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — The Mandaue City Government will be tapping the help of its barangays to monitor several of its tributaries which have been declared off-limits to the public. This was just some of Mandaue City…
MANDAUE CITY, Philippines –What was once a river teeming with life, Josephine Tamayo watched how Butuanon River–which is just on their backyard–became the very thing her children should now avoid. “Before I had kids of my own,…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Three major rivers in Mandaue City, Cebu, and its tributaries, will be off limits to the public. Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes said this after the Department of Health (DOH) announced that samples…
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