Atty. Joey Lina
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And the worsening public health crisis has intensified the desperation felt by many Filipinos.
Thus, leaders of the country’s top business and industry groups, including doctors’ and other professional organizations, have issued a frantic appeal to President Rodrigo Duterte and Congress leaders to make accessible the drug Ivermectin that is highly touted to be effective against the coronavirus.
In a letter signed on March 31, 2021, the multi-sectoral leaders pleaded with President Duterte, Senate President Vicente Sotto III, and Speaker Lord Allan Velasco “to give serious, urgent and immediate attention to Ivermectin as an inexpensive drug to prevent and treat COVID-19 during this public health crisis.”
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It’s still Mactan Cebu International Airport, says PJ. (File photo)
+ IT WILL still be named Mactan- Cebu International Airport.
Rep. Pablo John “PJ” Garcia (Cebu, 3rd) clarified this after news items in some local dailies claimed that House Bill 8986, approved on third reading before Congress went on recess on March 18, seeks to rename the airport to Lapulapu International Airport.
Garcia said the bill merely seeks to name the domestic and international terminals of the airport to Lapulapu Domestic Terminal and Lapulapu International Terminal, while retaining the name Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) for the entire facility itself.
He added that this is a substitute bill following a compromise brokered by Speaker Lord Allan Velasco and Committee on Transportation Chairman Rep. Edgar Sarmiento (Samar, 1st District) between the proponents, led by Rep. Paz Radaza of Lapu-Lapu City, and the opponents of the bill, led by Garcia.
Published April 3, 2021 10:18am
Updated April 3, 2021 10:31am
A health worker shows a bottle of Ivermectin, a medicine authorized by the National Institute for Food and Drug Surveillance (INVIMA) to treat patients with mild, asymptomatic or suspicious COVID-19, as part of a study of the Center for Paediatric Infectious Diseases Studies, in Cali, Colombia, on July 21, 2020. Speaker Lord Allan Velasco urged the Department of Health and the Food and Drug Administration to inform the public of alternative drugs for COVID-19 treatment. Luis ROBAYO / AFP Speaker Lord Allan Velasco urged the Department of Health and the Food and Drug Administration to “promptly inform” the public of the alternative drugs for COVID-19 treatment.
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CEBU. The Cebu Mactan International Airport. (SunStar File)
+ IT WILL still be named Mactan Cebu International Airport.
Representative Pablo John Garcia (Cebu, Third District) clarified this after news items in some local dailies claimed that House Bill 8986, approved on third reading before Congress went on recess on March 18, seeks to rename the airport to Lapulapu International Airport.
Garcia said the bill merely seeks to name the domestic and international terminals of the airport to Lapulapu Domestic Terminal and Lapulapu International Terminal, while retaining the name Mactan Cebu International Airport for the entire facility itself.
He added that this is a substitute bill following a compromise brokered by Speaker Lord Allan Velasco and Committee on Transportation Chairman Representative Edgar Sarmiento (Samar, 1st District) between the proponents, led by Representative Paz Radaza of Lapulapu City, and the opponents of the bill, led by Garcia.