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- 156 motorists apprehended for obstructing, using bike lanes
- PRRD signs Davao Occidental general hospital bill
- 18 Davao public schools may resume F2F classes once PRRD allows it
- Davao A4 vax group not a priority for Pfizer vaccines
| 156 motorists apprehended for obstructing, using bike lanes Posted: 25 Jun 2021 08:47 AM PDT THE Davao City government has apprehended over a hundred motorists for using and obstructing bike lanes in the city. City Transport and Traffic Management Office (CTTMO) Head Dionisio Abude said a total of 156 individuals were apprehended for obstruction and/or have illegally parked on the bike lanes since the implementation of penalties among violators in May this year. Meanwhile, a total of 45 violators were caught and fined from June 12 to 19. "Kana siya medyo effective na sya kay naa may area nga kanunay nato ma-monitor. Naa na pud ta'y na-apprehend nato nga violation kabahin sa illegal parking, obstruction sa bike lanes," Abude said. (Our constant monitoring in some areas has been effective with apprehensions on illegal parking and obstruction of bike lanes.) Abude said car drivers who illegally park on bike lanes are charged with illegal parking and fined P500. They may also face charges for disregarding traffic signs. The traffic official said these apprehensions should serve as a warning to motorists in the city. The 19th City Council is currently revising the provisions of the Bicycle Ordinance. Once enacted, violators will be fined at least P1,000. Abude hoped for the immediate passage of the modified ordinance for more specific bike lanes guidelines in the city. Abude said the proposed ordinance will undergo one more committee hearing before it will be lobbied on the plenary for deliberation. The city government is now collaborating with the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Davao Region to start laying the groundwork for the installation of designated bicycle lanes along Carlos P. Garcia Highway (Diversion Road), Davao-Bukidnon Highway, Matina Aplaya to Ecoland Drive, C. Bangoy St., Ecowest Drive, and Tulip Drive. Abude, meanwhile, cautioned bikers to stay safe on the roads by always wearing protective gear and refraining from going beyond the designated lanes. "Dili lang ta gusto manakop, pero gusto nato i-educate atong mga motorista. Dili gyud pwede mo parking o mo-obstruct sila except loading and unloading passengers," he said. (We do not only apprehend because we want to, but we would like also to educate our motorists. We do not allow them to park or obstruct [bike lanes] except for loading and unloading of passengers.) The CTTMO is also expanding its drive to educate more Dabawenyos about the safety and the proper use of bike lanes through information dissemination and the utilization of available social media platforms. The creation of the bike lanes is in accordance with the order of the Department of the Interior and Local Government urging all local government units to establish bicycle lanes in all local roads to support those who will bike to their work destination due to the reduced capacity of public transportation under the general community quarantine. Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, meanwhile, signed the suspension through Executive Order 40, series of 2020, or "An order providing for the suspension of bicycle registration, bicycle registration fees, and allowing the use of bicycle lanes in the City of Davao," which was publicly released on June 19, 2020.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| PRRD signs Davao Occidental general hospital bill Posted: 25 Jun 2021 08:46 AM PDT PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte signed on Thursday evening, June 24, the bill establishing the Davao Occidental General Hospital. In a signing ceremony attended by some members of the Congress at Malacañang, Duterte signed 16 laws, 13 of which were health-related and sought to increase the bed capacity of hospitals in various parts of the country. Among them is House Bill No. 7321, entitled "An Act Establishing A General Hospital in Barangay Lacson, Municipality of Malita, Province of Davao Occidental To Be Known As The Davao Occidental General Hospital, And Appropriating Funds Therefor." The president said the government is committed to providing the Filipino people "equitable and sustainable service" in healthcare. "Thirteen of these laws are health-related and are all very crucial in strengthening the capacity of our healthcare system as we continue to overcome the current pandemic," Duterte said in his speech. He said the new laws would "make quality medical service more accessible to our peoples especially those in the far-flung area." "Increasing the bed capacity of existing public hospitals would likewise greatly augment our inventory of [much]-needed hospital beds that we badly need as we deal with a pandemic," he added. With the passage of health-related bills into law, Duterte said his administration listens to the plight of medical frontliners, and that the government, along with the Congress, will continue to equip them "with proper and functional medical supplies and logistics." Davao Occidental Representative Lorna Bautista-Bandigan, author of the House of Representatives Bill 7321, said the establishment of the general hospital would complement and amplify the effectiveness of the province's health system by providing continuous delivery of medical services for acute and complex medical conditions of local patients and those from neighboring provinces who want to avail themselves of its services. Senate chairperson of the health committee Christopher "Bong" Go and Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon both pushed Senate Bill (SB) 1616, the counterpart of Bautista-Bandigan's bill. Go said the establishment of the Davao Occidental General Hospital is long overdue and its budget must be addressed at the soonest possible time since residents have to travel more than 200 km. to Davao City for needed medical attention. Bautista-Bandigan said it takes three to four hours of land travel before residents of the province could avail themselves of the services of tertiary hospitals that are located in Davao City. The hospital is currently under construction in Barangay Lacaron in Malita town, the capital of the province. Marivic Hubac, chief of staff of Bandigan's congressional office, said the construction of the Davao Occidental General Hospital started in 2020 with a budget of P200 million from the Department of Health. Expected to be operational in the first or second quarter of 2022, it will be a 100 bed-capacity hospital with more units to be added annually to increase its occupancy and services. Davao Occidental was created on Oct. 28, 2016 separated from Davao del Sur following a referendum. (With reports from PNA)  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 18 Davao public schools may resume F2F classes once PRRD allows it Posted: 25 Jun 2021 08:45 AM PDT WHILE the resumption of the face-to-face (F2F) classes in the country remains uncertain, the Department of Education-Davao Region (DepEd-Davao) said 18 public schools in the region are on standby in case President Rodrigo Duterte will give the idea a go signal. Duterte said on Monday evening, June 21, 2021, that he stands by his decision to allow the resumption of face-to-face classes only if the majority of the Filipinos are vaccinated against Covid-19. The President made the decision amid the threat posed by the Delta variant of Sars-Cov-2, which has been shown to be 60 percent more contagious. Upon hearing the President's decision, Education Secretary Leonor Briones immediately withdrew DepEd's request to allow limited F2F classes in at least 100 schools in the country. DepEd-Davao Spokesperson Jenielito Atillo said in a press conference that the 18 schools are out of the total of 2,181 public schools in the region. Atillo declined to name the schools but revealed that all of them are outside Davao City. The 18 schools are also out of the 300 schools in the entire country deemed ready for the F2F classes. The country has a total of 60,000 public schools. "As you can see, konti lang ang mga schools (there are only a few schools) that we have readied. But all of these are on standby mode, simply because the president has spoken already. There will be no face-to-face [classes] unless and until he changes his decision," Atillo said. He said their list is still subject to change as they have parameters set before a school will be qualified for the gradual F2F. These include the approval of the local government, parents, and other stakeholders. He said the facilities and teaching personnel must also be ready for the resumption of physical classes. He added that the department also takes into consideration the Covid-19 situation of the area, especially within the community. Based on the feedback they received, Atillo said most parents still prefer the traditional F2F mode of learning due to some factors, including difficulty in facilitating their children in their studies. "Daghan nagpadayag kung pwede mag-face-to-face (Many expressed that if possible, we go back to face-to-face) due to a lot of reasons, including naa'y kalisdanan sa ilaha og pag-facilitate sa pagtudlo ug kasabot mi ana kay (they struggle in facilitating in teaching, and we understand because) they are not actually teachers and they are not trained for that," Atillo said. Teachers also wanted to resume F2F since their task load doubled since the "new normal" learning modality started in October 2020, he said. Briones, in a previous presser, revealed that Davao Region was reconsidering joining in the pilot limited F2F classes. She said during a virtual press conference last April 30 that Davao was supposedly included in DepEd's plan to conduct pilot F2F classes for the whole month of January 2021 in select schools in areas declared as low-risk for coronavirus transmission. DepEd-Davao Regional Director Allan Farnazo said while there has been "anxiety" on the part of the region to participate in the limited F2F classes, but they reconsidered participating due to the continuing downtrend of Covid-19 cases in the entire region, especially in Davao City. Briones said DepEd will remain prepared should the situation improve and F2F classes may resume. She earlier expressed concern over the possible impact of the prolonged school closure to the Psychosocial aspect of the students and teachers.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Davao A4 vax group not a priority for Pfizer vaccines Posted: 25 Jun 2021 08:43 AM PDT VACCINEES under the Priority A4 Group or the frontline personnel in essential sectors in Davao City are not prioritized in the inoculation of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. "Atong Pfizer vaccine, ato siyang i-priority sa A1, A2, A3, ug ato napud i-apil ang paghatag sa Pfizer sa atong A5 (We will be prioritizing the inoculation of the Pfizer vaccine for the A1, A2, A3, and also, we will include the A5 group)," Davao City Covid-19 Vaccine Cluster head Dr. Josephine Villafuerte said in an interview on 87.5 FM Davao City Disaster Radio Friday, June 25. According to the National Vaccine Deployment for Covid-19 of the Department of Health (DOH), Priority A1 group are workers in frontline health services, A2 for all senior citizens, A3 for persons with comorbidities, A4 for frontline personnel in essential sectors (including uniformed personnel), and A5 for indigent population (including indigenous peoples and 4Ps beneficiaries). Villafuerte explained the Pfizer vaccines allocated in the city were sourced from the Covax facility. "Dili i-administer ang Pfizer sa A4 because the Pfizer nga nag-abot are Covax commodity. Pag Covax commodity, it is Covax that dictates kung asa siya ihatag. Sila magbuot," she said. (We cannot administer the Pfizer vaccine to the A4 group since this is donated by the Covax facility. They are the ones dictating to whom it will be vaccinated.) The A4 group will instead be inoculated with Sinovac's CoronaVac and AstraZeneca vaccines. Davao City is currently the sole area in the entire Davao Region to utilize the 239,850 doses of Pfizer vaccine allocated by the national government due to the city's capacity to store the vaccines in an ultra-low storage facility. Villafuerte said the city is expected to roll out the vaccines to the A4 group in July. She said this might be started before the end of the month before the end of June, depending on the readiness of the sectors to be inoculated. She did not mention when the vaccines would be rolled out to the A5 group. Since June 17, she said the city has already inoculated 26,505 doses of Pfizer vaccine, and that there are still ample doses of the vaccine until next week. The official said A5 has the most number of individuals to be inoculated. She said the numbers might reduce considering some were qualified on the above priority groups. Villafuerte said around 10 percent of Davao City's 1.2 million target were already vaccinated with the Covid-19 vaccine. According to the Davao City Vaccination Cluster as of June 20, a total of 138,660 first doses were allocated. Based on the0 breakdown, 34,063 were part of the Priority A1 group (healthcare workers), 63,374 for A2 (senior citizens), and 41,223 for A3 (persons with comorbidities). A total of 34,990 were inoculated for the second doses, wherein 23,235 for A1, 9,762 (A2), and 1,993 (A3). Villafuerte said they are hoping to reach the targeted herd immunity before the end of the year. According to Pfizer, test results showed its coronavirus vaccine is 95-percent effective, safe and also protects older people most at risk of dying.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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