Remote barangays in seven municipalities in
Agusan del Sur get access to safe drinking water
By David M. Suyao & Edwin S. Fuentes
AGUSAN
DEL SUR, Dec. 20 (PIA) - Nineteen remote barangays from seven municipalities in
Agusan del Sur now have access to safe drinking water after separate simple
turn- over rites were held in various barangays early this month.
Sangguniang Panlalawigan member Allan Santiago,
team leader of the project called Tubig Imnunon Natong Agusanon (TINA) said the
upgraded bio-sand water filter facility is the best means in addressing the sad
plight of residents in outskirt villages who get water from open sources that
pose health hazards being prone to water–borne diseases.
Engineer Pamela D. Yucosing, Agusan del Sur
provincial engineer, said prior to the project implementation, their office
conducts capability training to teach beneficiaries of their responsibilities
to sustain the project.
“Before the project turn-over, villagers have to
contend with drinking water from unsafe sources like, spring, rain collectors,
deep well (locally known as atabay) and wells they dug near their homes, while
others trek kilometers just to fetch water for their daily use”, Yucosing said.
Each bio-sand water filter facility costs
P140,000. For this year, the provincial government has budgeted 2.9 million for
the project.
The barangays which received the said facility
are Mapaga, Lacaridad, Napo, New Maug, and Purok 5 of Patin-ay, all in
Prosperidad town for District 1. For District 2, Barangay 1, Borbon, Rizal, and
Tagapua of San Francisco; Tagbayagan, Maligaya, San Roque, and Manat in Trento;
Mambalili and Poblacion of Bunawan; Aurora and Tapas of Sta. Josefa; Panagangan
and Sagunto of La Paz and Buena Gracia of Talacogon.
Recipients expressed their gratitude to the TINA
project as it answered their long time need for stable potable water supply.
They committed to eagerly look after the facility to ensure its sustainability.
Yucosing said, by order of Gov. Adolph Edward
Plaza, next year’s project allocation is P3.5 million to be sourced out from
the 20% Provincial Development Fund. (PIA-Agusan del Sur)
Police Regional Office XIII opts for a gunless
yuletide
By Noel B. Najarro
BUTUAN CITY, Dec. 20 (PIA) – The Police Regional
Office XIII officers and personnel had the barrel tips of their service
firearms taped and signed by their top officials to assure that these will not
be indiscriminately fired during the celebrations of Christmas and New Year in
ceremonial rites early this morning at the parade grounds of the police
regional headquarters here.
“The ceremonial sealing-off of our service
firearms is a compliance to a directive from Camp Crame to avoid firing our
guns indiscriminately during the Christmas and New Year’s celebrations,” Police
Regional Office XIII Deputy Regional Director for Administration (DRDA) Mario
O. Soriano said during the post-ceremony interview.
Soriano is leading the activity in place of
Caraga PNP Regional Director CSupt. Carmelo Valmoria, who is now in Camp Crame
attending yesterday’s turn-over of the CPNP post.
Soriano said that violation to the directive
from Crame may be meted with a dismissal from police service, “especially when
it will hit somebody.” The official warned that the velocity of a bullet fired
upwards has the same velocity going down which will mean it will still be
potentially fatal.
Soriano
mentioned however during the interview, that despite the recent directive from
Crame of a “gunless” yuletide and new year celebrations, and even with the
declaration of a Chistmas truce with the communist rebels, the police force in
the region is vigilant, ready and capable of responding to any eventuality
which may tend to disturb the peacefulness of the region. He said that these
measures will not hamper them in any way to effect their normal functions as
law enforcers.
“We just
want to assure everyone here in the region a safe and peaceful Christmas and
New Year,” Soriano said. (PIA-Cagara)
International NGO helps typhoon Pablo victims in
Agusan Sur
By David M. Suyao & Melody E. de Vera
PATIN-AY, Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur, Dec. 20 -
An international non-government organization (NGO) will help typhoon Pablo
victims of the two most affected municipalities in Agusan del Sur.
According to Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction
and Management Council office (PDRRMC), Save the Children Foundation will
provide water system to barangays Awao, Sayon and Angas in Sta. Josefa town and
Sinobong, Candiis, Sta. Emelia and Del Monte in Veruela in response to the need
of potable water by the residents of the two municipalities where no one was
spared by the typhoon.
At present, the provincial government through
the assistance of the Bureau of Fire Protection is rationing drinking water to
ravaged areas.
These two towns, including Trento and Bunawan
were the worst hit by typhoon Pablo leaving intense damages on properties,
agriculture and infrastructure affecting thousands of residents.
As reaction to the kindness of the NGO, Governor
Adolph Edward Plaza organized and directed a technical working group (TWG)
comprised of personnel from the Provincial Engineering Office, Provincial
Health Office, Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office, Agusan del
Sur Enonomic Research and Business Assistance Center and Provincial Social
Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) to provide support to the needs by the
NGO during the course of the installation of the water system.
According to the latest Provincial Disaster Risk
Reduction and Management Council report released on December 15, a total of
13,049 persons in Sta. Josefa and 16,770 persons in Veruela are still living in
temporary shelters using tents after their houses were totally wrecked by the
typhoon.
As of this posting, Oplan Pablo operation center
volunteers are still packing food stuffs and relief goods for distribution in
the affected areas. (PIA-Agusan del Sur)
PET/CT Scan donated to
Butuan City
By Junesther Jean S.
Iway
BUTUAN CITY, Dec. 20
(PIA) -- The World Medical Relief, Inc., through its president and chief
executive officer George V. Samson recently turned-over the pacemakers and the
Positron emission tomography - computed tomography otherwise known as the
PET/CT Scan to the city government of Butuan headed by Mayor Ferdinand Amante
Jr., and Vice Mayor Law Fortun through Dr. Josephine Chua, the
officer-in-charge/hospital director of the Butuan Medical Center (BMC).
The said medical
equipment is a small device that is placed in the chest or abdomen to initially
help control abnormal heart rhythms. This device uses electrical pulses to
prompt the heart to beat at a normal rate.
On the other hand, the
PET/CT Scan measures important body functions, such as blood flow, oxygen use,
and sugar (glucose) metabolism, to help doctors evaluate how well organs and
tissues are functioning through providing images that pinpoint the location of
abnormal metabolic activity within the body.
PET and PET/CT scans are
performed to:
• detect cancer;
• determine whether a
cancer has spread in the body;
• assess the
effectiveness of a treatment plan, such as cancer therapy;
• determine if a cancer
has returned after treatment;
• determine blood flow
to the heart muscle;
• determine the effects
of a heart attack, or myocardial infarction, on areas of the heart;
• identify areas of the
heart muscle that would benefit from a procedure such as angioplasty or
coronary artery bypass surgery (in combination with a myocardial perfusion
scan);
• evaluate brain
abnormalities, such as tumors, memory disorders and seizures and other central
nervous system disorders; and
• to map normal human
brain and heart function. (http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=pet)
The World Medical
Relief, Inc., is a private not-for-profit organization operating exclusively
for charitable purposes in helping the poor, the sick and the elderly or the
medically-underserved through collecting and distributing medicines, medical
equipment, medical supplies, and related materials.
Butuan City was selected
by the World Medical relief as a beneficiary of the medical donation mainly to
help the it address the medical and health care concerns of its constituents
especially those patients who are financially incapable of supporting their own
medical needs.
For his part, Fortun
thanked the World Medical Relief, Inc. for its donation. He said that the said
equipment is a big help to the people of Butuan and address the growing medical
needs of the city. Fortun also lauded the effort of Mayor Amante who is a
doctor by profession who has put forward the health services as one of his
priority project. (Vice Mayor’s Office/LGU-Butuan/PIA-Caraga)
30IB, Phil. Red Cross
hold bloodletting activity
By Capt. Steve L.
Mangabat
SURIGAO CITY, Dec. 20
(PIA) -- The 30th Infantry "Python" Battalion, 4th Infantry Division,
Philippine Army in partnership with the Philippine National Red Cross, has
conducted a bloodletting activity at the 30IB Headquarters, Sta. Cruz, Placer,
Surigao del Norte.
The bloodletting
activity is in line with this year’s celebration of the 77th Founding
Anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on December 21, 2012
with the theme, “Bayanihan at kahandaan: Tuwid na daan tungo sa kapayapaan.”
A total of 12,600 cc of
different blood type have collective from 28 blood donors.
Prsonnel of the 1503rd
Community Defense Center, 15RCDG, Phil. Army 23rd Infantry Batallion and CAFGUs
participated in the event. (SDR/CMO-30IB/PIA-Surigao del Norte)
Tagalog news: Ayon sa
Pangulo ang nagkakaisang sambayanang Filipino ang nagpapadali ng kanyang
trabaho
Ni Danilo S. Makiling
LUNGSOD NG BUTUAN, Dis.
19 (PIA) -- Sinabi ng Pangulo kamakailan na ang nagkakaisang sambayanang
Filipino ang nagpapadali ng kanyang mga tungkulin.
“Magiging madali po sa
akin ang aking mga tungkulin kung tayo ay nagkakaisa kahit ano man po ang ating
kinakaharap. May mga problema po na nakakaapekto sa sanlibutan kung saan hindi
po tayo nahihiwalay dito, at tayo, bilang sambayanan, tayo po ay humahakbang
pasulong bilang isa, at ito po ay nakakatulong,” ayon sa Pangulo nang siya ay
tinanong sa kanyang mga ina-asahan sa kapaskuhan kasabay ng Christmas Party ng
Bulong Pulungan sa lungsod ng Pasay.
“Yan lang po ang pinaka
personal na aking makukuha sa ngayon. Gusto kong magkaroon ng realistic
objectives--realistic at obtainable na objectives,” aniya.
Binanggit din ng Pangulo
ang RH Bill debates, isang nahahating isyu na naipasa na sa pangatlong pagbasa
ng kongreso.
Bagaman napaka init ng
debate hinggil sa RH bill, sinabi ng Pangulo na ang mga taong nagkakaiba ng
opinyon ay hindi po kailangan na magturingan na magkaaway, paglilinaw na wala
pong kaaway sa bansa dahil sa mga ganitong klase ng isyu.
“Kung ito po ay maging
batas, tayo po ay magmove on para gawin to… para po siguruhin na ang lahat ng
positibong attributes ng batas ay mangyayari,” ayon sa Pangulo.
“Sa pagitan po ng mga
Filipino, hindi po kailangan na i-treat po natin ang bawat isa na kaaway, pero
mga tao po na nagkaisa sa pamamagitan ng napakaraming paraan, at nabibilang din
tayo sa iisang lahi, ito po ay kailangan na maging tugon sa mga
nangangailangan, hindi lang po sa mga naging biktima ng bagyo kundi pati na rin
po sa bawat isa sa atin at sa iba't ibang problema na kinakaharap ng ating bansa.”
Ang RH bill ay hindi po
isang labanan na may natatalo at may nananalo, idinagdag din ng Pangulo na ito
ay labanan kung saan ang bansa ang benepisyaryo, lalo na ang mga kababaihan at
kabataan.
“Kailangan po natin na
magtrabaho upang siguruhin na ang bawat isa ay committed sa pagsasakatuparan nito,”
ayon sa Pangulo. (NCLM/DSM/PIA-Caraga)
Surigaonon news: Mokabat
P50,000 ihatag nan City Agriculture Office isip seed capital sa 4-H Club
Ni Annette P. Villaces
SURIGAO CITY, Dis. 20
(PIA) -- Mokabat sa P50,000 ka pesos an ipan-apud-apod nan buhatan sa City
Agriculture sa pakigtambayayong sa buhatan nan Agricultural Training Institute
(ATI) Caraga, ngadto sa mga miyembro nan Heart, Head, Hands, and Health Club
(4-H Club) kagahapon Disyembre 18, 2012 didto sa HVCC Processing Center, Km. 2,
Brgy. Luna, ning syudad.
An amo na kantidad
gigahin isip capital aron ipalit og mga seedling o liso nga amoy ipananom sa
mga miyembro nan 4-H Club na gikan sa Barangay, Sukailang, Nabago, Cagniog ug
Mat-i.
An amo na kalihukan haom
sa programa na Strategic Agri-Fishery and Livestock Development Program nan
syudad ubos sa administrasyon ni Surigao City Mayor Ernesto T. Matugas. (SDR/City
PIO/PIA-Surigao del Norte)
Cebuano news: 2013
General Appropriations Act gipirmahan ni Pangulong Aquino
Ni Susil D. Ragas
SURIGAO CITY, Dis. 20 (PIA) – Gipirmahan na ni
Pangulong Aquino ang mokabat P2.006-trilyon nga 2013 General Appropriations Act
(GAA) kagahapon.
Ang mokabat P2.006
trilyon nga 2013 National Budget nga ginganlan og Empowerement Budget mi-umento
ug 10.5 porsyento kumpara sa kasamtangang budget nga P1.816 trilyon.
Sa 2013 nga budget,
pinakadako nga parte niini ang gigahin alang sa mga social services sa nasod
sama sa Department of Education nga mokabat P232.6 bilyon, ang Department of
Social Welfare and Development P56.3 bilyon ug P51.1 bilyon alang sa Department
of Health.
Ang nasangpit nga budget
namugna uban ang tumong ug tinguha sa paghatag prayoridad ug pondo ngadto sa
mga public services nga maghatag og mga trabaho, edukasyon sa mga kabataan,
pagseguro nga himsog ang mga katawhan aron sila maaghat pagpartisipar sa mga
ekonomikanhong kalihukan. (PIA-Surigao del Norte)
Cebuano News: Ang
panggamhanan sa Aquino midayeg sa pagpasa sa Resposible Parenthood Bill
Ni Nida Grace B.
Tranquilan
TANDAG CITY, Dis. 20
(PIA) -- Ang administrasyong Aquino midayeg sa mga magbabalaod kalabot sa
paglusot sa Resposible Parenthoon Bill, pagpasayon sa mga Pilipino aron
mapataas kon mapa-usbaw ang matag pamilya sa pamaagi nga matarong ug paghatag
ug gahum, ang opisyal sa Palasyo miingon.
Si Presidential
Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda mipagawas sa iyahang pamahayag subay sa paglusot sa
Rasponsible Parenthood Bill sa ika-tulong pagbasa didto sa Senado ug sa House
of the Representatives niadtong Lunes sa gabie.
“Ang paglusot sa
Responsible Parenthood Bill sinyas dili lamang sa bag-ong yugto sa atoang
adyenda sa “iclusive growth; kana usab sinugdan sa prosesong pag-ayo sa mga
kadaut nga madangat hawan sa kanunay sa feisty democracy” ("The passage of
the Responsible Parenthood Bill signals not only a new chapter in our agenda of
inclusive growth; it also begins a process of healing for the wounds that may
have been opened by an often feisty democracy,") sulti ni Lacierda.
Ang administrasyon sa
Aquino namahayag sa kumpiyansang positibo ug makahulogan ang kasabutan sa mga
nagkadaiyang branch sa gobyerno nga magpadayon, sulti ni Lacierda.
Si Lacierda mibutyag nga
ang administrasyon nagpasalamat sa mga magbabalaod kinsa mihimo sa
makasaysayanong pagboto niadtong Lunes ug nagmalampuson nga mipalusot sa
Responsible Parenthood Bill.
“Kami partikularmente
mapasalamaton kang Speaker Sonny Belmonte; Majority Floor Leader Boyet
Gonzalez; Congressman Edcel Lagman kinsa maoy awtor sa balaod ug maoy nagbantay
sa pagpalakat sa sobra na sa dekada; Senator Pia Cayetano, kinsa maoy
misagubang sa mga kalisod nga pakigbugno sa senado; ug ang matag magbabalaod
kinsa mibotar sa maong pahat, “ ("We are particularly grateful to Speaker
Sonny Belmonte; Majority Floor Leader Boyet Gonzales; Congressman Edcel Lagman
who authored this bill and shepherded it through for more than a decade;
Senator Pia Cayetano, who waged an equally difficult battle in the Senate; and
every legislator who voted for this measure,") Sulti ni Lacierda.
“Sila mihimo niana gani
tataw --- nga ang mga katawhan karon dunay gobyerno sa ilahang kiliran sa
pagbarog kon pagpataas sa ilahang mga pamilya sa pamaagi nga husto ug paghatag
ug gahum,” ("They have made it even clearer ---that the people now have
the government on their side as they raise their families in a manner that is
just and empowered,"), matud pa niya.
"As President
Aquino asked, our representatives voted according to conscience. Discussions
regarding this bill were heated and did not lack for passionate advocates from
either side," Lacierda noted.
Si Lacireda
mipahinungod,kadtong mga magbabalaod mipatuman sa ilahang mga obligasyon nga
dunay kadungganan sa pagpatigayon ug balaod nga tinuoray nga mihaum sa
gikinahanglan sa mga katawhan. (NGBT/PIA-Surigao del Sur)
