WHO, DOH offer support to CSF on war vs Covid-19
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO---The World Health Organization (WHO) and Department of Health (DOH) on Friday offered their expertise to re-orient the city’s teams for “fast and quality contact tracing.”
During the updating on Friday at Heroes Hall here, WHO technical coordinators represented by Eric Lazarte and Nico Selibio, and Rossana Rosell of the DOH Regional Epidemiology Surveillance Unit (RESU) expressed their support to San Fernando’s strategies and medical approach of the local government unit (LGU) against coronavirus disease 2019 particularly its contact tracing activit i es.
Mayor Edwin Santiago and Dr. Renely P. Tungol, officer-in-charge of the City Health Office and Incident Commander of the Incident Management Team, discussed the city’s best practices aimed to combat Covid19
including its efforts on testing, contact tracing, isolation and treatment dubbed as the “Kahon ng Buhay” or “box of life.”
“We were inspired by the WHO and DOH representatives when they offered their support after finding out our strategies and approaches in containing Covid-19. They found our trace, test, isolate and treat strategies plausible and to develop measures further and improve the approaches is a welcome development for the city, Fer nandi nos and Kapampangans in general,” Santiago told SunStar Pampanga.
MAGALANG --- The municipal council in this agricultural town has set a public hearing to resolve numerous
complaints by residents about the sudden increase in their electric bills.
The Sangguniang Bayan recently passed a resolution enjoining its Committee on Public Utilities "to conduct a public hearing, in aid of legislation, as regards the unexpected and abrupt spike of electric bills of Pelco 1 amidst the corona virus (COVD 19) pandemic.
Councilor Koko Gonzales, who authored the resolution, said they invited official of the Pampanga Electric Cooperative 1 (Pelco 1) to shed light on the issues.
He said the hearing will be held at the session hall of the municipal council at 9 am on June 23.
The official invited the residents to attend the hearing. "Idaraos po ang isang pagdinig sa mga susunod na araw. Iimbitahan po ang mga opisyal ng Pelco 1 at ang publiko upang mapagusapan ang mga naturang reklamo sa singil sa kur yent e."
On June 17, 2020, Mayor Romy Pecson earlier sent the Pelco 1 officials a letter regarding the issue.
The residents thanked the town officials for acting on complaints regarding their power bills that allegedly reached double their previous consumptions.
Scores of netizens aired their complaints regarding the issue through social media.
A resident said "bakit po ganoon kung kailan nababawasan ang mga ginagamit na appliances ay doon lalong tumataas ang mga bayarin sa kuyente."
"Magbibigay ng discount dhil sa COVID tapos pagdating pala ng susunod na bill kulang P1k dagdag, Pelco ano na?" another netizen stated. "Maraming salamat po sa pag aksyon niyo sa isyu ng kuryente. Sana po masagot din nilayung tanong kung bakit kapag gabi madalas humina ang kuryente. Kasi minsan bigla na lang kikislap tapos biglang hihina ang kuryente."
He added that with the recent opening of a new RT-PCR and molecularpathology testing facility and laboratory and the expected spike in cases that it will entail due to more testing and immediate availability of results, the WHO and DOH support will be very important as the city government braces and prepares for a possible second wave of virus infections. (JTD)