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Press Release
April 19, 2021
Bong Go hails second batch of Visayan frontliners deployed to NCR, reaffirms gov t commitment to ensuring welfare of medical workers
Senator and Chair of the Senate Committee on Health Christopher Bong Go sincerely thanked the second batch of medical frontliners from the Visayas who volunteered to be deployed to overwhelmed hospitals and health care facilities in the National Capital Region following the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the region.
On Friday, April 16, a ceremonial send-off was held in Cebu City for 30 nurses from Central Visayas. Twenty nurses are assigned to the National Center for Mental Health in Mandaluyong City while the rest will be deployed to the Las Pin~as General Hospital and Satellite Trauma Center.
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LTFRB 7 deploys 10 buses to provide free rides to health frontliners. (File photo)
+ April 17, 2021 THE Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) 7 has started deploying 10 public utility buses (PUBs) for the second scheme of the free-ride service contracting program in Cebu on Friday afternoon, April 16, 2021.
LTFRB 7 Director Eduardo Montealto Jr. said the first batch of PUBs are all Ceres buses, operated by the Vallacar Transit Inc. (VTI).
Three of the PUBs follow the route Naga City to Chong Hua Hospital Mandaue via South Road Properties-SM Seaside City-Mambaling-N. Bacalso-Imus Road and vice versa.
Four other buses travel from the Danao Provincial Hospital to the University of Cebu Medical Center and vice versa, while another three buses travel from the Banilad-Talamban Road to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center and vice versa.
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(Photos from OPAV) April 16, 2021 PATRIOTISM and the desire to help fellow Filipinos are among the reasons given by the second batch of nurses from Central Visayas who volunteered to be deployed to the National Capital Region and nearby areas (NCR+) as part of the Covid-19 response.
In an interview, Princess Diane Antolihao, a nurse from Compostela, Cebu, explained that she had been deployed to Bacolod City as a volunteer so she volunteered again for the NCR Covid response.
“Sa una, I find it overwhelming nga maka help sa isig ka tawo nato. That’s the reason why ni volunteer ko karon (Based on my previous experiences, I find it overwhelming to be able to help our fellowmen. That’s the reason why I volunteered again),” Antolihao said.
April 15, 2021 TALISAY City Mayor Gerald Anthony Samsam Gullas urged health officials to thoroughly investigate the case of Sydney Rose Panimdim.
Panimdim, the cleaning woman who works for the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC), reportedly died from adverse effects after she received the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
Gullas told reporters that he visited Panimdim s relatives in Barangay Tanke on Wednesday, April 14, 2021.
Gullas had vowed to Panimdim s family, especially to her common law husband and two kids, that the City will provide financial and food assistance to them. I am awaiting the official report from the Department of Health. So I cannot give a comment on her death. But I assured her (Panimdim) family that we will be there to help them, Gullas said.