Mindanao Daily (March 8-9, 2021)

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MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS

Volume IX, No. 403

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Mon-Tue, March 8-9, 2021

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Army hospital frontliners in CDO vaccinated vs COVID-19 By FROILAN GALLARDO MindaNews

CAGAYAN DE ORO -- A hundred medical front liners at the Camp Evangelista Station Hospital in Barangay Patag here were vaccinated Friday afternoon with CoronaVac, a vaccine against COVID-19 manufactured by China’s Sinovac Biotech. Elsewhere in the city, inoculation also started on Friday for the 1,400 medical front liners at the Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC), the

main regional referral center for COVID-19 cases. The Army 4th Infantry Division received 300 doses of CoronaVac, a small part of the initial batch of 600,000 doses donated the country by China. China’s donation, which arrived in the Philippines on February 28, specifies 100,000 doses are a gift of the Chinese military to the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Army spokesperson Major Rodulfo Cordero said the medical frontliners See VACCINATED, page 11

A female soldier receives a dose of the Coronavac vaccine from a nurse at the Phil. Army’s 4th Infantry Division in Barangay Patag, Cagayan de Oro Friday. photo by gerry lee gorit

PhilHealth-10 bats for digitalization, reforms in 2021

The vaccination rollout against COVID-19 on Monday also takes place at Capitol University Medical Center(CUMC) with CUMC Medical Director Jess Jardin was the first who injected the vaccine. Looking at the back is Dr.David Mendoza of Department of Health (DoH) Region-10.(Text by E rcel M aandig with photo credit from CUMC)

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- In consonance with Philippine Health Insurance Corporation’s (PhilHealth) 26th anniversary on the theme, “Patuloy na nagmamalasakit at naglilingkod sa Pamilyang Filipino,” PhilHealth-10 seeks to provide Filipinos in northern Mindanao with proper health care coverage by pushing for digitalization and strengthening its trust among stakeholders with internal reforms. “We give much importance to giving service to the people. So we are going out to inform our stakehold-

ers of the benefits being accorded to them by PhilHealth,” said Philhealth-10 Regional Vice-President Orlando Iñigo Jr. during “Talakyan sa PIA” program. Using the mnemonic, “PURE QUA-L-IT-Y”, Iñigo shared that their regional offices are focusing on improving (P) Payment Mechanisms for their clients and accelerate their office payment services in less than 60 days as mandated by the law, have (U) uncompromising stand against fraud, (R) reduce backlogs especially in claims and membership, See BATS, page 11


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