EDGEDAVAO VOL. 6 ISSUE 30 • FRIDAY - SATURDAY, APRIL 26-27, 2013
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‘Musikahan’ proceeds benefit ComVal’s typhoon victims
hE Tagum City Local Government Unit has purchased 800 pieces of corrugated G.I. sheets out of the proceeds of their Musikahan Festival for the super typhoon Pablo victims in ComVal. On April 18, Tagum City Tourism Council Chair Madam Alma Uy turned-over the corrugated G.I. Sheets to the provincial government through Governor Arturo T. Uy for distribution to the typhoon victims with partially damaged houses in Brgy. Andap, New Bataan. In the ceremonial turn-over at the Capitol, Governor Uy gratefully recognized the Tagum City LGU being one of the leading LGUs in the country which
really supported ComVal in trying times. Added to the cash and food donations, relief goods, and other interventions were the 22 units of Chain Saw provided by Mayor Rey T. Uy for the ComVal LGUs in the clearing and debri management operation in their respective areas. Each municipality is afforded with 2 units by Governor Uy. With the clearing operation, those coconut trees that fell down during the typhoon Pablo are utilized into lumber materials/ coconut wood utilization, which Governor Uy finds it very helpful for the construction of bunkhouses for the typhoon victims. [IDS-COMVAL]
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MARINE FORMATION. Marine Battalion Landing Team 3 troops stand in attention during their arrival presentation held at the Army camp in Bancasi, Butuan City on April 23, 2013. [MindaNews/Erwin Mascarinas]
Igacos, first Salintubig recipient Maternal deaths seen to go down
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hE city government of the Island Garden City of Samal (IGaCoS) received a P2-million pesos grant from the Sagana at Ligtas na Tubig para sa Lahat (SALINTUBIG) Program of the national government identified as one of the priority areas for the BottomUp Planning and Budgeting Projects (BUPBP). The Salintubig program aims to provide sufficient and potable water to all the households in the barangay that anchored to the local poverty alleviation reduction program of the national government. Barangay Aumbay of Island Garden City of Samal is the first recipient of the SALINTUBIG Program fit to avail of the project which belonged to a waterless munici-
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pality/city and one of the poorest barangay with reports of high level of waterborne diseases. An initial grant fund of P1M out of the P2M was received by the city government here for the implementation of water supply project last April 11. Department of Interior and Local Government Manila Engr. Richard Cruz with DILG Region XI Engr. Gail Gravador accompanied by personnel from the office of DILG-Samal, IGaCoS Water District, City Engineer and City Planning conducted an ocular inspection and evaluation of the project area last March 5, 2013. The IGaCoS Technical Working Group of the Salintubig Program was responsible for the speedy preparation of all
‘As a brother nation in ASEAN, our country is committed to nurturing our relationship; we commit to enhancing cooperation with Brunei and with all Southeast Asian states, not only through economic and cultural engagements, but also through dialogue for maritime security.’
-President Aquino in honor of His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei Darussalam, ApriL 16, 2013
documents needed for the release of the grant fund. The IGaCoS Water District prepared the feasibility study while the detailed engineering design was prepared by the City Engineer’s Office. The SALINTUBIG program is consistent with the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) No. 7 that is to reduce by 50% the world’s population without access to safe and potable water which our governments committed to provide water to all Filipinos particularly for the poor and waterless communities. Priority to water and sanitation is also stipulated in the Philippine Development Plan for 2011 – 2016. The national agencies tasked for the Salintubig Program were the National Anti-poverty Commission (NAPC), Department of Social Welfare and Development, DILG, Department of Budget and Management, Local Waterworks Utilities Administration and the Department of health which were responsible in identifying priority areas for the BUPB project and to provide safe and potable water through the “Sagana at Ligtas na Tubig sa Lahat Program. [Lorderly CPDO/Melrose]
with ultrasound at health centers
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ATERNAL Mortality Rate in Mindanao is expected to go down with more rural health doctors trained to use the ultrasound for early detection of pregnancy complications. Department of health assistant secretary Dr. Romulo Busuego shared this vision as he revealed the target of DOh to train about 100 rural health doctors to use the ultrasound in diagnosing complications of pregnancy. The DOh formally started rolling out the program Tuesday on the first day of the 10-day OB-Sonography Training for Primary Care Physicians at the Davao Regional hos-
pital located in Apokon, Tagum City, Davao del No rte. Two rural health doctors from Bukidnon, one from Lanao del Norte, one from Zamboanga Sibugay, one from Misamis Occidental and one from Misamis Oriental join the first batch of OB-Sonography training hosted by DRh with which Dr. Busuego also serves as the chief of hospital. The training bills each participant a fee of P160,000 for a package of one unit of portable ultrasound machine, board and lodging and the training which brings a panel of experts among whom are from the Institute of
Diagnostic Medical Sonography (IDMS). “They can readily bring home the ultrasound machine,” Dr. Busuego said while he viewed ultrasound to become a common medical equipment available at the municipal, provincial and district hospitals , “just like the stethoscope”. “What is ultrasound? It’s but a simple technology that can be learned by anybody trained to use it,” he said in putting emphasis on the need to provide “justice to the health needs” of those who badly need it at the community level especially the pregnant women. [PIA 11I/ Jeanevive Duron-Abangan]
the Poll Automation Law requires the Comelec to release to parties the source code for independent review. RA 9369 states that “the Commission shall promptly make the source code..available and open to any interested political party or groups which may conduct their own review thereof.” “The release of source code is not optional. It is a legal requirement precisely because it is an important safeguard against possible massive electronic cheating. The Comelec should
be held legally liable for failing to comply to such requirement,” he said. he said the Comelec should “stop making lame excuses and should stop decieving the public.” “The Comelec’s excuse that the source code was not reviewed in 2010 is not a defense. It is an admission that they broke the law before and that they intend to break the law again,” he said. Crisostomo said the failure could be a “deliberate ploy” of the Aquino administration to “manufacture” election results.
No source code: Comelec breaking law, putting elections in peril - youth group
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OUTh group Anakbayan yesterday assailed the Comelec, saying it is breaking the law for its failure to release the source code of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines for the May 2013 elections. Anakbayan national chairperson Vencer Crisostomo said that without the source code release, the public should brace for massive “e-cheating” and manufactured results. Crisostomo said Section 14 of RA 9369 or