CDOTIMES August 29 - September 4, 2016

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CAGAYANLifestyle TIMES Weekly de Oro

Volume 4 | No. 03 | Cagayan de Oro City | Aug. 29-Sept. 4, 2016

Fireworks light up the sky during the traditional and yearly pyro festival at SM City Cagayan de Oroas part of fiesta celebrations in the city. photo by mark francisco

2nd Mindanao Daily Men’s Physique held

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By MARK FRANCISCO

IXON Pepito, a 38-year-old from Bacayo, Iligan City became the classic winner in the 2nd Mindanao Daily Men’s Physique held last Saturday at Dynasty Court in Cagayan de Oro City. He bagged home the P6,000 grand prize while the first runner-up got P4,000 while the third placer got P3,000. The fourth placer got P2,000, P1,000 for the fifth placer and another P1,000 for the sixth placer.

For the tall category, the adjudged champion was Brian Honculada who got the same prize with his classic counterpart. The champ for the short category was Paul Delez. There were a total of 64 bodybuilders from all over the country who participated in the tilt with some coming from as far as Cebu, Davao, General Santos, Pagadian, Cotabato, Iligan and the host city of Cagayan de Oro who joined in the fiesta

celebration of the City of Golden Friendship’s patron, St. Augustine. In competitive bodybuilding, participants aspire to develop and maintain and aesthetically pleasing body and balanced physique through the following poses – fron t lat spread, rear lat spread, front double biceps, side chest, side triceps, most muscular, thighabdominal pose and posedown. Contestants were judged according

to mass, definition, proportion, symmetry and stage presence. Key persons involved in the event are event organizer and

Mindanao Daily CEO Dante Sudaria, event director Jerry Ebarle, fitness instructor Marlo Tajale, businessman physique/PAGE 7

Classic champion Nixon Pepito smiles after being awarded his P6,000 prize by event organizer and Mindanao Daily publisher Dante Sudaria (left) Shiela Lofranco and Dynasty Manager Ruel L. Pagulong. photo by gerry lee gorit

JR Borja General Hospital pioneers remote medical consultations By Mark Francisco

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The city-owned JR Borja General Hospital may be the first medical facility in the country to provide remote consultations. While certain charitable health organizations such as VSee conduct medical missions in remote areas through video conferencing or BPM companies providing telemedicine support, this will be the first time a medical facility

pilots telemedicine in the country. On the eve of the city hospital’s 53rd anniversary last Tuesday, JR Borja General Hospital debuted the project with a teleconferencing between Dr. Reagan Joseph Villanueva from Southern Philippines Medical Center in Davao City and a 29-year-old female schrizophenic at a holding room in the facility.

The exchange was witnessed by Mayor Oscar S. Moreno, city health officer Fe S. Bongcas, city social welfare officer Teodoro Sabuga-a and JR Borja General Hospital executive officer Ramon M. Nery. Mr. Moreno said they are prioritizing psychiatric patients in the teleconsultation program so City Hall could get rid of vagrants roaming aimlessly in the urban thoroughfares of the city. “These people come

as far as Zamboanga and they have been evicted by their own families. Our doors are open to them,” the mayor said. It can be recalled that in 2015, almost a hundred vagrants were rounded up in Cagayan de Oro City, shipped to Davao City and transferred custody to the mental facility there. But another viable option would be teleconferencing, Mr. Moreno said. Under this scheme, the hospital/PAGE 7

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