San Carlos City council holds 2nd out-of-the-hall session discussing projects, agreements, and assistance programs. Find out the highlights of the session here.
ABOITIZ Equity Ventures Inc. (AEV) said Tuesday its net income for the first nine months of 2023 stood at P18 billion, 16 percent lower than the P21.4 billion in 2022 because of lower revenues from most of the firm's business units.
May 05, 2021 THE vision to construct a community hospital in San Simon town is finally a step closer after Mayor Abundio Punsalan Jr. was able to source funds for its construction.
Punsalan said the local government has a savings of P20 million from years 2019 and 2020, which can be used for the construction of the community hospital and a central power house.
On Tuesday, May 4, the mayor asked for a Municipal Council special session to tackle and approve the ordinance authorizing a supplemental budget for the said projects.
The special session, however, did not push through due to lack of quorum as only six of the councilors were present.
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+ February 27, 2021 THE SUMMER capital shelled out P18 million for the advance payment of over 380,000 doses of anti-coronavirus disease vaccines for the city.
In a report from the Baguio City Public Information Office, City Administrator Bonifacio dela Peña said the city’s finance officers were able to remit the amount to AstraZeneca via bank transfer to formalize the procurement of the needed vaccines.
The report added local officials are keeping their fingers crossed on the arrival of the vaccines, as the city plans to roll out the initial 30 vaccination sites.
The local government earlier procured from the pharmaceutical company over 380,000 doses of vaccines that will be used to vaccinate more than 190,000 adult population of the city to achieve the prescribed 70-percent herd immunity.
January 10, 2021 THE Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) inaugurated on Saturday, January 9, 2021, its P18-million molecular laboratory that could "quadruple" its testing capacity.
The facility was donated by the Metrobank Foundation (MBFI) and George Ty Foundation and constructed by the Ateneo de Davao University (AdDU). The facility was formally turned over to SPMC over the weekend.
The molecular facility will be conducting a real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test of up to 200 samples a day, with a result turn-around time of three operating days.
Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, in a statement read by Assistant City Health Officer Dr. Marjorie Culas, said the new molecular laboratory will help improve the city government's testing efforts in its Covid-19 response.