MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH. JUSTICE. PROGRESS.
Volume IX, No. 271
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Hunger Rescue Initiative vs. Covid-19 launched in Oro
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AGAYAN de Oro— A multi-sectoral fund raising initiative to fight hunger at this time of global pandemic was officially launched yesterday amid the clamor for more aid as the city scamper for community safeguards following reports of Covid-19 related victims in the city.
The Mindanao Daily Group of Companies -led Multisectoral Hunger Rescue Initiative has tap its resources to fan the fund raising effort in the widest scale possible, said Dante Sudaria, President and CEO
of MDN group of companies. The city has been classified by IATF or the Inter Agency Task Force as general community quarantine along with the province of See RESCUE, page 7
Bukidnon Provincial Medical Center (BPMC) chief of hospital Dr. Sulpicio Henry Legaspi accepts some 2,000 antibody diagnostic kits or COVID-19 test kits from Senate majority leader Juan Miguel Zubiri and Bukidnon 3rd district representative Cong. Manuel Zubiri. (BGE/PIA10)
Senator Migz Zubiri turns over 2,000 COVID-19 test kits to BPMC M A L AY BA L AY C I T Y, Bukidnon--Senate majority leader Juan Miguel Zubiri and Bukidnon 3rd district congressman Manuel Zubiri on Monday turned over 2,000 test kits to Bukidnon Provincial Medical Center (BPMC) for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) detection. The donated test kits are the rapid antibody test kits recently promoted by President Rodrigo Duterte during his weekly briefings.
These kits can be used without testing laboratories. "I know the gold standards of testing for COVID-19 are the PCR test kits, like those we donated to PGH. But in the absence of accredited laboratories across the country, these rapid test kits will have to do for now," Zubiri said. The senator is also donating test kits to Misamis Oriental, Surigao del Norte, and the Bangsamoro AuSee KITS, page 7
FUND DRIVE. Food packs are being prepared at the operations center as the Mindanao Daily-initiated Hunger Rescue Initiative in partnership with multisectoral groups takes off the ground for distribution to less served barangays in Cagayan de Oro City.
DOST invites local designers to develop ventilators for COVID19 treatment With the spread of COVID-19 in the Philippines, the Department of Science and Technology – Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD) together with the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD) is looking for designs of ventilators and respirators to augment the health care system cope with COVID-19 DOST invites inventors to design locally fabircated ven- patients needing these meditilators for COVID-19 treatment
cal devices. “As a leader in enabling scientific solutions through R&D, the DOST-PCIEERD together with PCHRD opens its doors to our innovators and researchers to share their innovations that will ultimately aid our government respond better to the pandemic and contribute to the healing of our nation,” said DOST-PCIEERD executive director Dr. Enrico Paringit. See DEVELOP, page 7
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