MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume XI, No. 038
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Thursday, August 12, 2021
Names of cash aid beneficiaries need updating - DSWD By NEF LUCZON
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) 10 (Northern Mindanao) has extended the encoding of profiles of cash aid beneficiaries who are affected by the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), after about 90,000 names in the initial list needed to be updated. In an interview Tuesday, Oliver Inodeo, the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) information officer, said the staff of the City Social Welfare and Development (CSWD) of the local government found a discrepancy that needed to be corrected. The move was in response to the complaint of some households that they received only PHP1,000 when they have four or more members, entitling them See NEED, page 11
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Non-combustible nicotine delivery technology can reduce 4M deaths, says expert
UP to 4 million deaths from smoking each year can be avoided with the advancement of noncombustible nicotine delivery technology, which encourages millions of smokers to switch to less harmful alternatives, according to a global health expert. The world is experiencing a revolution in nicotine delivery technology, as there are now more than a hundred million people using harm reduction products, said Dr. Derek Yach, president of the Foundation for a SmokeFree World said during the 8th Global Forum on Nicotine on June 18, 2021. “Projections suggest that if these tools were more widely available, we would be able to cut the long-term trends of deaths by maybe between 3 and 4 million, if we acted more vigorously,” Yach said. E-cigarettes or vapes, and heated tobacco products (HTPs), such as Philip Morris International’s IQOS are non-combustible nicotine delivery alternative. The IQOS system use a patented HeatControl™ Technology that precisely heats, without burning, tobacco-filled sticks wrapped in paper called HEETS™ to release a water-based aerosol. Unlike cigarettes, IQOS does not burn tobacco and therefore produces no smoke and no ash. The device and heat sticks were made available
See REDUCE, page 11
BARMM Police top brass orders probe on PNP Official’s killing By SONY SUDARIA MDNN BARMM Bureau and OSCAR LEDESMA MDNN Bukidnon Bureau
BARMM Region - A topranking official of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PRO-BARMM) has ordered a speedy investigation into the killing of Sulu Police Director Colonel Michael Bawayan, Jr at a police quarantine control checkpoint in Barangay Asturias, Jolo, around 4:20 p.m. on Friday (August 6). BARMM Police Regional Office chief Brig Gen Eden Ugale said the killing of Sulu Police Director Colonel Michael Bawayan, Jr by See ORDERS, page 11
ISOLATED INCIDENT. The PNP organization in the BARMM Region is shaken when Sulu Police Director Col Michael Bayawan,Jr. (in photo) who was conducting a routine check-up, was killed by his own subordinate, Staff Sgt Imran Jilah due to alleged misunderstanding. The PNP top brass wanted to cut the long hair of the suspect but Jilah resisted and instead open fire which caused the untimely demise of the PNP official. - (Photo courtesy of DXND Cotabato)
Iligan implements Bakuna Buddy to ramp up vaccination drive
ILIGAN CITY -- The City Health Office (CHO) here is VACCINATION DRIVE AT SM CITY CAGAYAN DE ORO. With its long-standing com- ramping up its coronavirus mitment in ensuring the health and safety of the public, SM provides convenient and disease (Covid)-19 drive to encourage more people, accessible venues where the community can get vaccinated safely.
especially the elderly, to get their shots amid the looming threat from the Delta variant. Acting City Health
Officer Dr. Belinda Lim said in a radio interview Wednesday morning, August 11, that 40-59 years See DRIVE, page 11