The Sangguniang Panlalawigan has refiled during its recent weekly session held at the provincial capitol here a province-wide smoke-free ordinance that is going to be implemented in all 18 municipalities thru its Chief Executives for health reasons. The City of Maasin has already its own anti-smoking ordinance which was approved several months ago and is now being implemented.

Tuberculosis (TB), the 6th leading death in the Philippines, 9th worldwide and 2nd in the Pacific region, has affected 2B peoples according to a worldwide surveys conducted by the health experts.

The Sangguniang Panlalawigan has strongly opposed the Silago ordinance in allowing midwives to dispense emergency medicines/drugs to expectant mothers who are under labor without the doctors’ prescriptions and supervisions.

Red Cross Southern Leyte Chapter with funds from the provincial government has conducted training-live-in seminar for ten days on Disaster Management Preparedness for the new Provincial Disaster Response Team (PDRT) members during the recent month.

Maasin City, Southern Leyte – Mayor Maloney Samaco in behalf of the City Government has initiated during the recent weeks ‘run for the heart’, an open fun run participated in by City Hall employees, PNP personnel and other sports enthusiasts individuals in the city.
The one-day afternoon affair, which was divided into two categories, has a total of 1,150 participants composed of men and women.
The 3-K run for the heart was participated in by 311 men and women, while the 6-K run has exceeded beyond the double number of3-K’s men …

Maasin City, Southern Leyte – Two folks residing in Brgy. San Jose, Alberto Roa Bascug and Cresencio Salar Padaria, both of legal ages, have reported recently to San Rafael Police Community Precinct, another barangay next to it, that they have discovered suspected marijuana plantation at the mountainous area of their resident barangay.
This was the disclosure of our source P02 Aldous Dexter Roa of the Maasin Police Station who received the message. He said that responding joint team of PNP personnel of San Rafael and Maasin Police officers led by …

“Anyone who experienced the symptoms of Dengue Fever should be brought immediately to the Provincial Hospital,” Dr. Jose Lito P. Trumata

DOH comfirmed the 2 cases of Flu AH1N1 infection in Eastern Visayas. One of the infected is a 14-year-old high school student and the other one is a seaman.

The World Health Organization or WHO considered already the Swine Flu (H1N1) as pandemic. It means the new strain of the virus has been spreading through the communities in the world. The whine flu virus that has been spreading since April 2009 is identified already in 74 countries and there are almost 30,000 cases around the world and took 141 lives already.