HEALTH

SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao --Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go opened Tuesday the 109th Malasakit Center in the country at the Cotabato Sanitarium Hospital (CSH) here.

Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo and Maguindanao Governor Bai Mariam Sangki-Mangudadatu accompanied the senator here together with other representatives of national government agencies.

“This center is to make you feel that you are not forgotten by President Rodrigo Duterte,” the senator told health officials, nurses, and several beneficiaries.

COTABATO CITY -- Region 12 or the Soccsksargen region has recorded a single day highest tally of COID-19 infections AT 183.

In its Regional COVID-19 tracker issued at 6 p.m. on May 8, 2021, the DOH-12 said 49 patients have also recovered while three persons have died.

Below is part of the DOH-12 daily tracker: 

COTABATO CITY --- The regional health minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao dismissed as “baseless” insinuations that COVID-19 vaccines are forbidden in Islam.

Anti-COVID-19 medical workers from the Integrated Provincial Health Office-Maguindanao gave Bangsamoro Health Minister Bashary Latiph a Sinovac anti-coronavirus jab Thursday.

Latiph, a physician, is a Muslim who hails from Lanao del Sur, a component province of BARMM.

LOOK:  Regional COVID-19 tracker as of May 3, 2021 (6:00pm)

ONE-HUNDRED-EIGHTEEN (118) NEW CONFIRMED CASES

FORTY-FOUR (44) NEW RECOVERIES

ONE (1) COVID-19 RELATED DEATH

One (1) reported death from General Santos City, the 6847th reported confirmed case, 59 years old male. Final Diagnosis of Acute Respiratory Failure secondary to severe metabolic acidosis, Fatal ventricular Arrhythmia secondary to Hyperkalemia, Sepsis secondary to COVID-19 Pneumonia Severe on top of chronic Kidney Disease secondary to obstructive uropathy, Cervical Cancer Stage III.

KORONADAL CITY - Muling ipinatupad ng Koronadal local government unit (LGU) ang barangay clustering.

Ngunit nilinaw ni City Legal Officer Atty. Joy Sollesta na magiging applicable lamang ang naturang implementasyon sa Brgy. GPS at Brgy. Sta Cruz na isinailalim sa modified enhanced community quarantine, batay sa inilabas na executive order no. 16-A ni Mayor Eliordo Ogena.

COTABATO CITY — Bangsamoro Government’s Ministry of Health (MOH) turned over eight (8) units of ambulance to seven towns and a hospital in Lanao del Sur province on Friday, April 30, in this city.

MOH Minister Dr. Bashary Latiph said the ambulances will help address Bangsamoro people’s lack of transport to hospital that in turn will prevent the loss of lives in traumatic and critical incidences.

DAVAO CITY – The Ministry of Health of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (MOH-BARMM) and the National Department of Health (DOH) signed the Bangsamoro region’s Universal Health Care (UHC) Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) in a ceremony held here on Monday, April 26.

MOH Minister Dr. Bashary Latiph said the IRR would pave the way for the full implementation of UHC in BARMM, and that it is reflective of the region’s uniqueness and distinctive structure.

KIDAPAWAN CITY - Sumailalim sa vaccination na ginanap sa Cotabato Provincial Hospital ngayong araw si North Cotabato Governor Nancy Catamco gamit ang Sinovac vaccine.

Nabakunahan si Governor Catamco kasabay ang ilan sa mga Chief of Offices ng probinsya at nurses mula sa Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) kasama ang ilang medical health frontliners mula sa Integrated Provincial Health Office o IPHO.

KORONADAL CITY - Naka-isolate na ang 17 mga kawani ng Koronadal city hall na nagpositibo sa COVID-19.

Ang mga ito ay kabilang sa dalawamput anim na COVID-19 cases na naitala sa lungsod kamakalawa.

Sinabi ni Vego na nakuha ng mga COVID-19 positive ang virus sa kanilang mga opisina at tahanan.

Dahil dito, ayon kay Vego, aasahan na simula sa Lunes ay may pagbabago na ipatupad sa pagreport sa trabaho ng kanilang mga kawani ang city government. Ito ayon kay Vego ay napagusapan nila ng Human Resources and Management Office.

COTABATO CITY – The Cotabato City government has started Wednesday its vaccine rollout for senior citizens with one COVID-19 survivor as among its clients.

Among the early birds was 83-year-old Emergancia Diaz who used a wheelchair in queuing for her first anti-Covid shot. Diaz survived the killer virus when last year she tested positive of Covid-19.

Her husband, Quintin Diaz, 86, have shown symptoms of the disease but did not submit himself for swab tests but went on isolation/