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Batangas City Comelec nangangailangan
ng technical support staff
MAHIGIT
100
technical
support staff ang kakailanganin
ng Commission on Elections
(Comelec) sa Batangas City para
sa darating na national at local
elections sa Mayo kung kayat
nagbibigay sila ngayon ng written
examination hanggang bukas sa
mga aplikante.

Ayon
sa
Comelec,
requirement
na
ang
mga
aplikante ay nagtapos ng
Information Technology subalit
tumatatanggap din sila ng mga
guro dahil may background na
ang mga ito sa IT. Tumatanggap
sila ng walk-in applicants. Ang
lugar ng examination ay sa
kanilang opisina.

Kapag nakapasa sa
examination, ang mga aplikante
ay sasailalim sa seminar at hands-
on training sa paggamit ng Voters’
Counting Machine IVCM) na
siyang gagamitin sa eleksyon.

Ang mga mapipiling
technical support staff ay
tatanggap ng P6,000.00 para
sa transportation allowance at
honorarium. (PIO Batangas City)
271 children benefit in Food
for Growth Program
By Ruel Francisco
Municipality of Tanza, Cavite (PIA)
– A total of 271 pre-school children
beneficiaries from selected barangays
in the municipalities of Amadeo and
Tanza participated in the closing
activity of the successful 120 days
Food for Growth Program.

The feeding program was
initiated by the Provincial Government
of Cavite thru the Provincial Social
Welfare and Development Office
(PSWDO) in cooperation with the
Provincial Cooperative Development
Council (PCDC) that aimed for the
rehabilitation of almost 100% of the
participating children.

Fr. Arturo Joseph Monzon
Balagat led the event to give
recognition to all the concerned
government agencies and partakers
who gave their support for the success
of the program.

Offcer-in-Charge of the
rovincial Cooperative, Livelihood
and Entrepreneurial Development
Office (PCLEDO), Atty. Khervy
Reyes acknowledged the attendees
and introduced a livelihood program
to help the parents and guardians
increase their income to sustain a
nutritious diet for their children.

During the event, Provincial
Administrator
for
Community
Affairs Mr. Alvin Mojica awarded
the certificate of appreciation to the
programs’ proponents including
the PCDC, Anabu Development
Cooperative, Municipal Nutrition
Action Office-Tanza, Biga Brgy.
Chairman Raymundo Joya and Ms.
Marilou Joya.

The children were also
given certificate of appreciation and
school supplies kit that will help in
their education. (Ruel Francisco,
PIA-Cavite/with
reports
from
PICAD)
New P2P route in Cavite
benefits Noveleta &
neighboring town residents
By Ruel Francisco
Province of Cavite, (PIA) – Another
P2P route in the province was
recently opened to give relief to
commuting residents of Noveleta
and neighboring towns of Salinas,
Kawit, Cavite City and Tanza.

Seven yellow buses of San
Agustin Transport Service Corp.
will ply the route of Noveleta –
Makati from its terminal at Puregold
Noveleta.

Noveleta Mayor Dino
Reyes Chua happily announced this
development saying that “the new
P2P route will bring much-needed
relief for Noveleta commuters.

“This is the answer to
the daily agonies of Caviteño
commuters,
especially
the
Noveleteños. This will not only
benefit people from Noveleta, but
also the nearby towns of Salinas,
Kawit, Cavite City and Tanza,”
Chua said.

The Premium Point-to-
point (P2P) Bus Service which was
opened early December of 2018 is
a collaboration of the Department
of Transportation (DOTr) with the
Land Transportation Franchising
and Regulatory Board (LTFRB),
and Metro Express Connect, Inc. It
started its south routes in June of
2017 connecting Cavite and Alabang
road networks specifically Starmall
Alabang – Vista Mall Daang Hari
Bacoor and Starmall Alabang –
Central Mall Dasmarinas. (Ruel
Francisco, PIA-Cavite/ with reports
from GoCavite)
(PIO Batangas City)
DOH, PSH converge to promote
NCD prevention in Calabarzon
BY JOY GABRIDO
CALAMBA CITY, Laguna, January
16 (PIA) – The Department of Health
(DOH) Calabarzon and the Philippine
Society of Hypertension (PSH) joined
forces in leading the Philippine
Package Essential Non-Communicable
Disease (NCDs) Interventions (Phil
PEN) Summit held at the Taal Vista
Hotel, Tagaytay City last Friday,
January 11.

The DOH and PSH
converged to promote prevention of
NCDs as risk factors to cardiovascular
diseases through the Phil PEN Summit.

PSH members, doctors,
provincial and municipal health
executives, and Barangay Health
Workers (BHWs), among others,
from around the Calabarzon region
participated in a dialogue on
Cardiovascular Risk Assessment and
Management Initiatives.

This engagement with the
local health practitioners is aimed
towards reducing the rates of lifestyle-
related NCDs in the provinces of
Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal
and Quezon through early screening
and consultations including timely
treatment at the local level.

By definition, PEN is
a prioritized set of cost-effective
interventions for NCDs such as
cardiovascular diseases, diabetes,
cancers, and chronic respiratory
diseases that can be delivered to an
acceptable quality of care, even in
resource-poor setting.

Phil PEN is then employed
to the provincial and municipal levels
due to the limited resources therein.

DOH and PSH noted that
“cardiovascular
diseases
(CVD)
comprise more than one-thirds of all
deaths worldwide and 85% is due to a
heart or a brain attack.”

Moreover, four of the top
causes of death in the Philippines in
2016 involves CVDs and accompanying
complications which cover one-third of
all deaths in the country. With this, they
have recognized the need to address
the problem by assessing the behaviors
that can cause or worsen and finding
ways to manage these diseases.

Dr. Deborah Ignacia D.
Ona, PSH Secretary and UP-PGH
Clinical Associate Professor, tackled
the guidelines on Hypertension; while,
Dr. Carmela N. Granada of the DOH
Lifestyle-related Disease Division
talked about the integrated and public
health approach to Hypertension and
Diabetes in a low-resource setting of
primary health care.

“It is gladdening that we’re
here together for this is how to do it,
this is how we should make things
happen for the health system, not for
the Department of Health, but for the
Health System,” DOH Calabarzon
Regional Director, Dr. Eduardo C.
Janairo said.

He added that the public and
private health sector must go together
like this and see how to make things
new and different in order to succeed
this time.

“Our population continue
to be exposed to the behavioral risk
factors that may cause heart diseases.
People of the working age are
especially affected which is a serious
risk to the economic potentials of this
country.”

He explained that the
strategies of the government in
addressing this challenge is currently
embedded in the newest FOURmula
One Plus strategy of the Department,
also known as F1 Plus, which is seen
to boost the Universal Health Care by
ensuring the accessibility of essential
quality health products and services at
appropriate levels of care.

“The DOH’s mission is to
lead the country in the development of
a productive, resilient, equitable and
people-centered health system.”

He pointed out that this is
in context of achieving better health
outcome, more responsive health
system, and more equitable healthcare
financing.

In result, it is seen to
strengthen five strategies in the
areas of financing, service delivery,
regulation, governance, and the Plus
of the FOURmula One Plus which is
performance accountability.
The cooperation, he said, of different
sectors is vital in achieving greater
progress in addressing cardiovascular
diseases, since NCDs are driven both
by health and non-health variables that
the health sector cannot adequately
prevent and control on its own.

“Multisectoral
approach
is required to establish enabling
environment in the communities so
that healthy choices become the more
attractive choices.”

To better address the NCD
situation particularly in the region,
DOH Calabarzon is set to fund and
conduct surveys in the five provinces
of the region to identify the five-year
trend of NCDs in the area.

Finally, Janairo advised that
prevention of the NCDs and CVDs
starts at home. In a practical note, he
said, parents must train and teach their
children to eat healthy as a way of early
prevention.

This way, he added, they
will not be at risk of acquiring NCDs
when they grow old. (Joy Gabrido,
PIA4A)