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

A multicab-turn-fish car whose driver tried to evade a parked Rovo car has collided with a motorcycle with one backrider coming from the Upper Ichon, Macrohon as it crossed the bridge in brgy. Amparo and shattering the former’s windshield.

The National Health Insurance Program (NHIP) or in short PhilHealth with its current theme: ?Kalusugan ng lahat,PhilHealth ang katapat? has aimed to provide a universal coverage of at least 85% of the entire 90M Filipinos by the year 2010.

The commentary of Ricardo Ma. Nolasco, PhD ?Pilipino, Filipino, Tagalog? published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nov.15, 2008) implied that the evolution that a chosen national language like Tagalog has undergone is only in name but not in its element or substance. From Pilipino, the name use in school as a subject, and Filipino as citizenship, then Filipino as both a subject and citizenship. And lastly Tagalog as the dominating base being chosen as the national language.

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) has released the November 2008 Nurse Licensure Examination (NLE) result. Among the 88,649 nurses who took the exam, 19 examinees were product of the College of Maasin. Among those who took the exam nationwide, 39,455 examinees passed which is 44.51%. And those coming from College of Maasin, only 4 of them failed.
For the complete list of passers, please visit “November 2008 Nursing Board Exam Result“.

The Saint Joseph College, during the first inter-collegiate sports fest held recently here has grabbed the overall championship crown in all 6 games competitions with a total score of 280.

If Manny Pacquiao is sensitive enough to perceive the reason why some politicians and businessmen want him to run as Congressman, is that they are only riding on his popularity status. They seem not to look into consideration how the low-graded boxer would fare in his uncharted and unknown course.

Likewise, mendicancy in the city is now minimized and prohibition of minors for playing video games during class hours were imposed. There?s also a massive information drive against swindling and neighborhood involvement in crime prevention, suppression and reporting.

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) officially released the September 28, 2008 Licensure Examination for Teachers last Saturday, November 15, 2008.
Among the 58,471 Elementary Teachers who took the LET, only 17,816 Elementary Teachers passed the exam which is 30.47%. There are 110 examinees who came from the schools here in Maasin City, but only 40 of them passed the examination. The College of Maasin has 10 examinees but only 1 passed which is 10%. The Saint Joseph College – Maasin City has 100 examinees and 39 of them passed which is …

Maasin City, Southen Leyte – A concert for a cause was held here recently at the city gymnasium to help a sick young singer who is popular in the local singing community, Josephine Batistil Ramos. Her disease was diagnosed by pediatric neurologist Dr. Martha C.T. Lu-Bola?oso of Manila Metropolitan Hospital as Sub Acute Schlerosing Penencephalitis (SSPE).
Fifteen local bands who expressed their willingness to perform live for charity were not able to do so. Only 6 of them have actually performed live at the stage-giving out pleasure and entertainment to the …