MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume XI, No. 010
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Mon-Tue, June 7-8, 2021
Vehicles, guns, ammos, drugs seized in anti -COVID checkpoint By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
CAMP ALAGAR, Cagayan de Oro City: Six armed men on board two vehicles were seized in a “quarantine control point” in Upoer Puerto here as law enforcers tightened the travel movement after the city was placed under “modified enhance community quarantine” (MECQ). PLt. Col. Michelle Olai- A Toyota Hi-Ace Van, a Ford Raptor pickup is impounded after law enforcers nabbed var, the police regional its occupants with firearms, ammunition, and alleged illegal drugs in an anti-COVID-19 See SEIZED, page 11
checkpoint in Upper Puerto, Cagayan de Oro City Sunday morning.
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Missing person returns home, 30 years later
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Misamis Oriental Gov. Yevgeny Vincente “Bambi” Emano distributed almost 100 multicabs, dozens of vehicles and ambulances to a number of barangays in Misamis Oriental recently. Misamis Oriental board members Wayne T. Militante, Gerardo “Boboy” Sabal III and Dexter B.Yasay were all smile riding the new multicab. photo by gerry lee gorit
Private hospital reinforces COVID-overran BPMC
M A L AY BA L AY C I T Y, Bukidnon -- A privatelyowned hospital here answered the call for help of patients-packed, mostly with COVID-19 infections, Bukidnon Provincial Medical Center (BPMC) in Malaybalay City. Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) Board Member
Atty. Oliver Owen Babba Garcia reported this in a radio interview Monday. He said the SP passed a resolution urging private hospitals to accept COVID-19 patients to mitigate the unusual daily admissions at the BPMC which is now fully occupied. See REINFORCES, page 11
By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
SHCCI Alumni Association Officers pose for posterity. In the photo are Mr. Celer Estologa, President; Mr. Ray Burlat, Vice President; Mrs. Wilma Loresco, Secretary; Mrs. Fe Vertudez, Treasurer; Mr. Diomedes Villasis, Auditor; Mr. Eric Gonzaga, Mr. Jay Lansang, Mr. Gualbert Meralles, and Mr. Rosenio Jr Villamor, PROs; and Ms. Lucila Enerio, Muse.
CLAVERIA, Misamis Oriental: After 30-years, he reunited with his family, not anymore in flesh, but as skeletal remains of a person executed at the height of the communist atrocities back in 1987 here. Family members were frustrated, but overwhelmed when the military turned over Friday the skeletal remains of Menecio Himalao, of Barangay Madaging, Claveria, Misamis Oriental “We were waiting for him (Himalao)) for a long time with the hope that he is See RETURNS, page 11
Smoke, not nicotine, causes deaths – health expert INHALATION of smoke, not nicotine, is the culprit that causes smoking related deaths and diseases according to a Canadian health expert. “The nicotine itself is not the problem. The global health catastrophe we face is due to the way it’s delivered. In short, for
anyone wishing to tackle the global toll of 20,000 lives a day lost due to cigarette smoking, we need to remember just four words: ‘it’s the smoke, stupid’,” Prof. David T. Sweanor, chair of the advisory board of the Centre for Health Law, Policy & Ethics at the University of Ottawa said.
He stressed that contrary to popular belief, nicotine is not the substance that causes these deaths. “There have been many decades of research on the health effects of cigarette smoking, and we have known since at least the 1970s that the primary cause of the cancers, heart and lung disease
is the repeated inhalation of smoke,” he said. The professor made the distinction to differentiate the risk profile of non-combustible alternatives (NCAs) like vapes, heated tobacco products (HTPs) and oral products like Sweden’s snus See CAUSES, page 11
Bethel Baptist Hospital in Malaybalay City volunteers to admit COVID patients as soon as its special designated facility for such patients is ready by next week’s 15th of June. Bethel Baptist Hospital blazed the trail of the pioneering days of private hospitals in Bukidnon. (BBH)