Butuan dad thanks constituents, donors for help
& support for Typhoon Yolanda victims
By Jennifer P. Gaitano
BUTUAN CITY, Nov. 15 (PIA) – After their recent
visit in Tacloban City to personally deliver the relief goods to typhoon
victims, Mayor Ferdinand Amante Jr. expressed his warm thanks to all his
constituents and donors for their help, support and prayers.
“It will be formidable work to help build
Tacloban and Northern Leyte and thank God we as a small LGU was given a chance
to help,” said Amante.
Amante also relayed that there were some 49
members composed of the Peace Keeping Force courtesy of Butuan City Police
Office-CMG Unit, two doctors which included Councilor Virgilio Nery Jr. and
seven nurses including Ivy Amante, four heavy equipment operators, one
speedboat operator, and the rest was the Butuan City Search and Rescue Team
(BUSART) headed by Ging Espere and Bong Catedral who visited Tacloban City to
help typhoon victims.
“Thank you to all who extended their help and
support to our brethren in Tacloban and other nearby municipalities. Through
this effort, we hoped to express them our love and care for them as
co-Filipinos,” stressed Amante.
Mayor Amante together with the team left the
city on Sunday and arrived in Tacloban on Monday bringing with them two dump
trucks filled with rice, canned goods, water, used clothing, food packs, medicines
and some hospital supplies.
The mayor also urged the Butuanons to send in more
goods thru the city hall. (JPG/PIA-Caraga)
DOH Caraga reorganizes regl committee on tobacco
prevention and control
By Nora L. Molde
BUTUAN CITY, Nov. 15 (PIA) – With the aim to
achieve a healthier and Tobacco-free Caraga region, the Department of Health
(DOH) Caraga region leads in the reorganization of the Regional Committee on
Tobacco Control, Friday in one of the convention centers, here.
DOH Caraga non-communicable disease program
coordinator Delma Legaspi, who leads in the forging of the regional committee
on tobacco control said, with the fact that tobacco is the most preventable
cause of death and diseases worldwide, “there is a need to fully comprehend the
severity of the tobacco problem and to urgently respond by adopting
comprehensive approaches to reduce and subsequently eliminate tobacco as a threat
to public health,” she said.
Legaspi also said, ordinances, memoranda and
other local policies are already crafted by independent initiatives or from
national laws, they must now be calibrated to current standards to provide and
ensure better protection to the public.
She further said that policies are useless
without enforcement, that’s why there is a need to do local action,
legislation, enforcement and networking to support local tobacco control and
prevention programs and ensure compliance to laws.
The regional committee on tobacco control is
geared towards the following: develop and/or influence public policy; change
people’s perception and behavior; and create a healthier community which
includes physical well-being and environmental health.
The committee also involve in the following:
address an urgent concern; equip the partners with knowledge and skills; bring
about the interventions and action as a collective force; pool resources
together; faster communication and exchange of information; and gain better
political clout with network-wide initiatives and unified campaign efforts.
The committee is chaired by DOH with partners
from national government agencies, local government units, health workers and
others. (NCLM/PIA-Caraga)
Typhoon Yolanda leaves P24.466M damage in
Surigao City
By Susil D. Ragas
SURIGAO CITY, Nov. 15 (PIA) - The Surigao City
Disaster Risk, Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) has released on
Thursday its post-assessment report of the Super Typhoon Yolanda (international codename: Haiyan) that
devastated the Visayas region and some parts of Mindanao including this city.
In its latest update, the CDRRMC said the damage
to agri-fisheries was estimated at P5,625,000.00 which includes damage on fish
cages, lobster production, backyard fishpond, fish coral and seaweeds
production.
Damage to infrastructure reached P14,945,000,
livestock recorded a total damage amounted to P101,500.00, and damage to
lifelines P3,795,000.00, the report said.
The CDRRMC also said that during the onslaught
of super typhoon Yolanda, a total of 3,378 families (13,265 individuals) were
evacuated in 36 identified evacuation centers.
“The City DSWD has distributed 2 sacks of rice,
1 box of sardines and noodles per barangay,” the report said.
The City Health Office (CHO) recorded at least
16 cases of minor injuries, treated 66 cases of illness, provided vitamin A
capsule to children with common colds, conducted advocacy on health in the
evacuation centers and accommodated seven families at the CHO office.
(PIA-Surigao del Norte)
