July 05, 2021 THE Cebu Provincial Government inaugurated a storage facility for hazardous wastes at the Ricardo Maningo Memorial Hospital (RMMH) in San Francisco, Camotes Island on Thursday, July 1, 2021.
The facility will store used needles, syringes, gauzes, and other hazardous wastes before these are collected by a treatment firm. A hauling company will take care of the disposal of the hazardous wastes after treatment.
Dr. Cristina Giango, chief of the Integrated Provincial Hospital Office, said that the RMMH is the first Capitol-run hospital to have the storage facility worth P1.88 million.
She said that the funds for the facility were sourced through the Health Facilities Enhancement Program of the Department of Health.
Published January 8, 2021, 2:01 PM
CEBU CITY—Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia said she felt vindicated after the Office of the Ombudsman overturned a previous decision, and cleared her and 11 others of criminal charges over alleged anomalies in the construction of the P830-million Cebu International Convention Center (CICC) in 2006.
Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia
(Cong. Gwen Garcia Facebook page / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
“First of all, I am really grateful to God, Senior Sto. Niño and Our Lady of Guadalupe. We have gone through so much, I have gone through so much, my family has suffered greatly because of this baseless accusation,” Garcia said in a press conference Wednesday.