Sec. Bello approved rules implementing wage order No. RXIII-02 for domestic workers/kasambahay in Caraga Region
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DOH orders monitoring of 3 siblings due to poliovirus
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By DIVINA M. SUSON, Correspondent
ARAWI City--The Department of Health (DOH) has directed the Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) to monitor and conduct surveillance against the three siblings from Lanao del Sur who showed symptoms of poliovirus. In a press briefing in Marawi on Monday (October 15), Dr. Shalimar Rakiin, chief of Amai Pakpak Medical Center (APMC), confirmed that the patients are siblings aged 10, 5, and 2 years old who are experiencing fever and pain of their lower extremities upon their admission. In September, a threeyear old girl from the municipality of Marogong was tested positive of poliovirus, one of the two patients reported, almost 20 years after the Philippines was declared polio-free in 2000. IPHO chief Dr. Alinader Minalang said the patient
first manifested of having poliovirus in July. On Monday, the DOH launched the Sabayang Patak Kontra Polio in Marawi targeting 134,411 children under five years old in the province to be vaccinated in the first round of mass immunization against poliovirus by October 27. The launching also kicked-off the house-tohouse intensified campaign urging parents in 39 municipalities, including Marawi City, to immunize their children. The DOH declared the re-emergence of polio in the See MONITORING, page 11
Health Secretary Francisco Duque administers a polio vaccine to a child during the launching of Sabayang Patak Kontra Polio in Marawi City, Monday (October 14). photo by divina m. suson
‘False solutions’ on plastic pollution hit ENVIRONMENTAL groups called on consumer goods companies to stop peddling false solutions to cover up continuous reliance on single-use plastic, and instead shift to business practices
that enable reuse and refill methods. The groups cited data from a new Greenpeace report that exposes how multinational firms refuse to end single-use packaging
Photo screen grabbed from Greenpeace Philippines’ website
and compound the problem by embracing false solutions, which include switching to paper or bioplastics and mainstreaming chemical recycling. The report, ‘titled Throwing Away the Future: How Companies Still Have It Wrong on Plastic Pollution “Solutions,’” shows how multinational companies, such as Nestlé, Unilever, PepsiCo, and Procter & Gamble, continue to harm the environment by using paper and crops-based bioplastics, which cause deforestation and threaten food security. Moreover, chemical recycling offers false hopes and lock in demand for plastic packaging.
“Filipinos have stepped up the call to end plastic pollution, but big brands are walking away by substituting single-use plastic for another throw-away material. Instead of immediately ending their risky business systems, they continue, and even increase, manufacturing products wrapped in disposable packaging,” Abigail Aguilar, Greenpeace Southeast Asia Regional Campaign Coordinator, said. “Actors from the grassroots level have started to venture into small businesses that promote reuse and refill. We ask these companies to do the same as they have the means to See SOLUTIONS, page 11
Former Maute Group member yields, turns over HPFA By: MAJ. ARVIN JOHN EMCINAS, WESTMINCOM PIO / YANA SUNGA, MDN
On October 14, 2019 around 10am, an ISIS-inspired Dawlah Islamiya/Maute Group yielded to 49th Infantry Battalion under the leadership of Lt Col Edgar Al-
lan Villanueva in Barangay Poblacion Bayabao, Butig, Lanao del Sur. S a i f o d e n Ma c a r ay a Maute, 36 years old, resiSee YIELDS, page 11