KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 22 February) — Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa has warned of a possible measles outbreak in Mindanao as the Department of Health (DOH) failed to reach its herd immunity target in the country’s second largest island. Herbosa
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 20 December) — Freshwater crabs in Mindanao have been found to carry DNA of the lung-fluke parasite Paragonimus westermani, which can cause illness if crabs are eaten raw or undercooked, scientists reported. Researchers from the
CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews / 23 September) — In 2016, Raffy Ardemil’s journey to an HIV diagnosis began with something else entirely. “Sa akong X-ray they found out nga naa koy pneumonia ug TB,” she recalled. In just a month, her weight dropped
Recent DOH Davao data recorded in the Field Health Services Information System shows that acute upper respiratory infections, hypertensive diseases, pneumonia, diabetes and other diseases in the urinary and respiratory systems are among the top diseases that affect men in
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 27 April) — Health units in South Cotabato are under heightened alert as the province reported on Sunday night its first confirmed case of the Monkey pox (Mpox) disease. In an advisory, the South Cotabato Integrated
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 17 March) – Health workers in Region 12 have tapped practitioners of “tandok,” or those who provide “alternative cure for rabies,” to help properly educate animal or dog bite victims on the risks posed by
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 05 November) – Dengue-related deaths in Region 12 have reached 79 as of the end of October, as the surging cases are feared to breach epidemic records by the end of the year. The Department of
MindaNews fact-checked the June 11 post of Darren Ferrer on Facebook warning people not to consume fish, saying a hospital dumped tubes used on HIV patients into the sea. The post is fake. Darren Ferrer posted on his Facebook page
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews / 8 January) – This city recorded the most fireworks-related injuries (FWRI) in Region 9 or the Zamboanga Peninsula, including parts of the Bangsamoro Autonomous region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), during the Christmas and New Year’s celebrations,
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 06 October) – A message circulating online that a hospital is currently on lockdown because of a patient with Covid-19 is not true, the Department of Health said. In an advisory dated Oct. 5 and posted
A post by Facebook user Fahima Salik tv that the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) failed to pay the salaries of its employees since last year is false. On August 28, Fahima Salik tv posted: “BARMM government gulatin
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 April) – Davao City registered the highest heat index in Mindanao on Saturday at 43 degrees Celsius and 41 degrees on Sunday, data from the state weather bureau showed. Saturday’s record shows that next to
A social media post claiming that fish contaminated by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes the dreaded acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), has killed hundreds of people in Northern Mindanao is false and an old fake news being circulated anew.
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 10 December) – Construction work on the P200-million expansion and upgrading of the South Cotabato Provincial Hospital (SCPH) on a new site here, has finally started, nearly four years after its groundbreaking rites. The project’s implementation,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 August) – The local government of Davao has designated Camp Malagos of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines in Baguio District as an isolation center for monkeypox cases in Davao City, a Department of Health
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 24 July) — A four-man medical team from the Epidemiology Bureau of the Department of Health (DOH) in Manila took water samples from the distribution pipes of the Davao City Water District (DCWD) in Toril District
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 June) – Chikungunya, a viral illness transmitted by mosquitoes that causes the sudden onset of fever and severe joint pain, has recurred in Davao City after 10 years, with the local health office reporting two
The Department of Health (DOH) junked a claim circulating on social media that individuals vaccinated against COVID-19 cannot anymore donate their blood. “Anyone who has been vaccinated with any COVID-19 vaccine may donate blood anytime if asymptomatic or 14 days
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 24 January) – The surge of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Davao City due to the highly transmissible Omicron variant “will likely last until mid-March this year,” Mayor Sara Duterte said on Monday. Duterte said during
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 24 January) –The Provincial Government of Davao Occidental has closed its borders to individuals who have not been inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine. This after Governor Claude Bautista signed Executive Order (EO) 001, Series of 2022,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 10 January) – Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte rejected the recommendation of the health cluster of the city’s COVID-19 Task Force to reinstate the “test before travel” policy for domestic air travelers amid the threat of
A message circulating on Facebook group chats that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is already present in the Davao Region (Region XI) and Socsksargen (Region XII) is fake news. As of press time Monday, January 10, the Department of Health
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 29 Nov) – The Regional Inter-Agency Task Force (RIATF) against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Region 12 (Soccsksargen) has dispatched several teams to monitor the conduct of the three-day national vaccination program in the area.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 October) – Mayor Sara Duterte revealed Monday that 11 out of 17 members of their household tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during the recent outbreak of the virus in their residence. Duterte, fresh from
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 20 October) – Health authorities in Region 12 (Soccsksargen) have urged local government units in the area to further accelerate the ongoing vaccination against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) for their vulnerable senior citizens or elderly
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews / 28 September) — Twenty-three year-old “Ben” (not his real name) wanted to work abroad to help support his family in Saguiaran town, Lanao del Sur. He prepared his travel documents after a restaurant accepted his application
NAAWAN, Misamis Oriental (MindaNews / 27 September) – The Commission on Audit (COA) noticed a whiff of something in its examination of the management of the pandemic funds in the hands of the Department of Health (DOH). It simply described
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 22 September) – At least 18 schools in the Davao region will take part in the two-month pilot limited face-to-face classes this school year, a Department of Education (DepEd) regional official said. Jenielito Atillo, DepEd –
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 13 September) – The City Government of Davao has set aside P23 million to establish an oxygen plant here amid reports of supply shortage due to a surge of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections supposedly driven
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 13 September) – Even with the increasing cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections in Bukidnon, not a single rural health unit (RHU) in the province has offered institutional telemedicine or virtual clinical services for their
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 06 September) – Mayor Sara Duterte is not inclined to put Davao City under the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) despite the recommendation from the health cluster of the local government’s Task Force COVID-19 to revert to
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 06 September) – The Philippine Genome Center (PGC) has detected 11 more Delta variant cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in nine barangays in the city, bringing the total to 69, the highest
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews / 06 September) — Governor Santiago Cane has warned that if the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases will continue to rise at alarming proportions this week, he would place the entire province under the
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 23 August) – Despite its “high risk” classification, Bukidnon will remain under Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ), the provincial government’s Public Affairs Information and Assistance (PAIA) office said. The PAIA, in a press release posted on
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 19 August) – The Department of Health – Region 12 (DOH-12) has raised concern over the increasing number of individuals with comorbidities who are being reported by the rural health units (RHUs) amid the ongoing
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 19 August) – Health authorities in Region 12 or Soccsksargen are expecting the delivery of more temperature-sensitive coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines in the coming days as local government units (LGUs) continue to expand their
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 19 August) – This city, the capital of Bukidnon province, has recorded its first Delta variant of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the City Health Office (CHO) confirmed Thursday. This was the second confirmed case of
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 09 August) – The city government is looking at easing more restrictions in the coming days as it continues to balance its response against the soaring cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with the area’s
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 09 August) – The provincial government of South Cotabato is planning to expand in the coming days the ongoing mass vaccination against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to workers in key economic hubs in the area.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 08 August) — At least 30 cases of the highly transmissible Delta variant of SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, have been reported in three of six regions in Mindanao as of August 6 but like
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 02 August) — Getting onion-skinned is the least of Mayor Oca Moreno’s traits. Even when political losers go very foul against him, he just dusts it off his shoulders — to the chagrin even
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 July) – The local governments of Davao and Tagum will not implement a stricter community quarantine despite the detection of two local cases of the more virulent Delta variant or B.1.617.2, officials said Monday. From
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 19 July) – The City Government of Davao will not ban travelers coming from Northern Mindanao even after six cases of the highly transmissible Delta variant or B.1.617.2 were detected there, Mayor Sara Duterte said Monday.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 19 July) — Mayor Sara Duterte asked Monday the Davao City Police Office to intensify their operations against individuals selling intoxicating beverages in communities despite the implementation of a ban on alcoholic drinks to stem the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 05 July) – Politicians are welcome to lend their “star power” to boost the vaccination program of the local government here after former Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro returned to Davao City last Saturday to receive his
NAAWAN, Misamis Oriental (MindaNews / 01 July) — Corruption is dishonesty in the performance of one’s official functions, or the non-performance of one’s function at all to the great disadvantage of the government. Smuggling and corruption often go together. They’re
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 28 June) – The provincial government of South Cotabato will start this week the gradual turnover of the operations of the Soccsksargen General Hospital (SGH) in Surallah town to the Department of Health (DOH). South Cotabato
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 14 June) – No coronavirus variant of concern (VOC) has been detected lately in the Davao region amid the alarming surge in new daily infections in the area, an official of the Department of Health-Davao (DOH-Davao)
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 09 June) – At least 200,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for distribution in the Davao Region are scheduled to arrive at the Davao International Airport at 6 a.m. Thursday, June 10, a local health official
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 09 June) — This is an essay I promised many of my friends who journeyed with my family through COVID-19 and asked me how we survived the ordeal while managing it at home despite the difficulties.
