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HEALTH

SoCot veterinary office vaccinates 38,000 dogs

KORONADAL CITY
- At least 38,000 pet dogs were given anti rabies vaccine in South Cotabato
from January to September this year, veterinary officials today said.

This is higher
compared to 23,000 recorded in the same period last year.

Flora Bigot, South
Cotabato provincial veterinary office head, said that they have conducted dog
vaccination in all barangays of eight out of ten municipalities in the
province.

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DOH-12 pushes breasfeeding

KIDAPAWAN CITY
– Health authorities in North Cotabato today urged mothers not to deny their
babies with the most important food they need as they build muscles and
strength.

The appeal came
as the Department of Health starts celebration of Breastfeeding Week in the province.

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Arakan malnourished kid survives

ARAKAN, North Cotabato (Sept. 27) -- Four years ago, he was suffering from severely acute malnutrition (SAM). Today, Emman, as neighbors fondly call him, is a shy 5-year old boy. We thought he was going to die,” says his day care teacher Mary Jane Alegarbes. The boy's neighbors in the remote village of Kinawayan, some 10 kilometers from the town center of Arakan, North Cotabato, had the same thoughts. He was so thin. He was skin and bones,” neighbor Mary Joy Magbanua said. Luwas lost his mother when he was barely a year old.

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Lack of support hampers ARMM immunization

COTABATO CITY (Sept. 27) --The office of Health Secretary Enrique Ona is blamed for much of the constraints besetting the government’s immunization programs in impoverished Moro communities in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).For field personnel of the Department of Health (DOH) in the ARMM’s five component provinces, the lack of funding support from the department’s central office for their immunization thrusts in predominantly Muslim towns is causing demoralization in their ranks.

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RDC 12 backs DOST 12 halal advocacy

KORONADAL CITY
(Sept. 25) – The Regional Development Council 12, in its regular meeting
Tuesday, backed the request of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST 12)
for the promotion of its halal laboratory in Cotabato City.

Arturo Valero,
RDC-12 acting chairperson, said request was favorably endorsed by the RDC
because it will ensure 100 percent Philippine Halal products.

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DOST Halal initiatives presented in Japan

COTABATO CITY
(Sept. 19) – The halal initiatives by the Department of Science and Technology
in Region-12 take center stage in the recentJapan Halal Summit in Tokyo.

Dr. Zenaida
Laidan, DOST-12 regional director, was invited by Halal Development Foundation
of Japan Incorporated as one of the speakers during the summit.

Laidan
presented the Halal initiatives in the Philippines and in Mindanao that the
Japanese government took notice and proposed to replicate the program.

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NorCot provincial health team reached out to indigents

KIDAPAWAN CITY (Sep 16/NDBC) –- The North Cotabato provincial health team has conducted medicaloutreach program that benefited more than 1,000 indigents here andin Aleosan, North Cotabato, the NorthCotabato media bureau said today.The
Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) was backed by soldiers and other volunteer health providers.Held
at Barangay Kalaisan, Kidapawan City and Barangay Katalicanan, Aleosan, North
Cotabato, the outreach team conducted medical and dental services to more than
1,000 indigent patients.

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South Cotabato suspected measles on the rise

KORONADAL CITY,
(Sept. 15/NDBC) – Health authorities here said four children have died due to measles assuspectedmeasles cases in South Cotabato
rose to more than 950 this year.

Nineteen of
these suspected cases are confirmed measles,” Cecil Lorenzo, Provincial Epidemiology
Surveillance Unit (PESU) head told DXOM-Koronadal, adding that her office
recorded 955 suspected cases from January to date.

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Girl dies of measles? DOH Koronadal probes

KORONADAL CITY
(Sept. 13/NDBC) - Health Officials in South Cotabato are still investigating the
case of a 9-year-old girl who died of suspected measles, a health official said
Monday.

The
fatality who hails from Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, died on September 12 because
of pneumonia, one of the complications of measles.

But Cecil
Lorenzo, Provincial Epediomology Surviellance Unit (PESU) chief, said the case
is still being verified.

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Kabacan Village officialand 3 kids die of measles

KABACAN, North
Cotabato (Sept. 11/NDBC) — Measles have claimed the lives of at least three
children in a remote village here, a village official today said.

Corazon
Antonio, village chair of Pisan, Kabacan, North Cotabato, said the fatalities
were from two separate sitios (sub-villages).
Two of whom were identified as Angel Heart Adim and her sister Precious,
both residents of Purok Cueva and a still unidentified child from Purok Kalimudan
of Barangay Pisan, Kabacan.

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