DTI calls on public to utilize 'e-Presyo' app
By Jennifer P. Gaitano
BUTUAN CITY, Dec. 22 (PIA) – The Department of
Trade and Industry (DTI) Caraga called on the consuming public to utilize and
access their “e-Presyo” application, wherein consumers, retailers,
distributors, and manufacturers can check for the Suggested Retail Price (SRP)
and prevailing prices of all basic and prime goods being monitored by the DTI
including those stores selling at the lowest prices.
“The e-Presyo app can be accessed through the DTI
website at www.dti.gov.ph or can be downloaded from Play Store using any
Andriod device,” disclosed DTI regional director Brielgo Pagaran during the
last media briefing with the civil society organizations (CSOs) recently
conducted at the DTI regional office here.
Pagaran further emphasized that through the
e-Presyo, netizens would become updated from time to time on the prices of the
all the basic and prime commodities without any hassle.
The DTI is the executive department of the
Philippine Government tasked to expand Philippine trade, industries and
investments as the means to generate jobs and raise incomes for Filipinos. It
acts as catalyst for intensified private sector activity in order to accelerate
and sustain economic growth through comprehensive industrial growth strategy,
progressive and socially responsible trade liberalization and deregulation
programs and policymaking designed for the expansion and diversification of
Philippine trade - both domestic and foreign. (JPG/PIA-Caraga)
'Handog pamasko' benefits 400 drug surrenderers in
AgNor town
By Nora C. Lanuza Molde
BUTUAN CITY, Dec. 22 (PIA) – Some 400 drug
surrenderers of the municipality of Santiago in the province of Agusan del
Norte benefitted the services from the different government agencies on Tuesday
at the municipal gym.
The activity dubbed as “Handog Pamasko Para Sa’yo”
was facilitated by the provincial government of Agusan del Norte in
coordination with the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG),
the Philippine National Police (PNP) provincial offices and other partner
government offices.
According to PPOC secretariat and DILG OIC
provincial director Ellen Vee Chua, the event is a take-off activity of the
Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC), which aims to instill to the minds
of the surrenderers that they are being taken cared of by the government.
“It is one of the flagship programs of governor Ma.
Angelica Rosedell M. Amante-Matba,” said Chua. It emphasizes to the drug
surrenderers that the government is looking at their welfare and that the
government wants to reintegrate them to the society.
Also, during the whole-day event, national line
agencies like the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) gave a lecture on
the salient provisions of Republic Act 9165; the Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority (TESDA) talked on the Vocational and Skills Training; the
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) also discussed their livelihood
opportunities while the Department of Education (DepEd) shared the Alternative
Learning System and Senior High School; and the Department of Health (DOH)
presented the ill-effects of prohibited drugs and healthy lifestyle.
The Philippine Army (PA) also gave a lecture on the
recruitment process of the AFP to those who are willing to join the Armed
Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
During the event, PNP Agusan del Norte provincial
director Ernesto V Tendero, Jr. said that the gift giving event is only the
start of a bigger activity to start by 2017.
Tendero said that a community-based rehabilitation
program would start by February 2017.
Vitamins, t-shirts, cash prizes during games and
raffles were given to the surrenderers.
Simultaneous to the event is also the conduct of
the Medical and Dental mission and drug test by the DOH.
“The attendance and cooperation of the surrenderers
is a manifestation of their willingness to help the government to end the drug
menace,” Chua said.
Santiago town was chosen as the pilot local
government unit for the ‘Pamaskong Handog’ because of its high surrender target
rate, Chua added. (NCLM/PIA-Agusan del Norte)
ASTMMC on 'white alert' for holidays
By Nida
Grace P. Barcena
TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur, Dec 22 (PIA) – The
Adela Serra Memorial Medical Center (ASTMMC) based here is on "code white
alert" to prepare for possible holiday-related incidents.
ASTMMC chief Dr. Janice Pagaran Alcordo said the
code white alert status started on December 20, 2016 and will run until January
2, 2017, as per directive from the Department of Health (DOH). Code white alert
means all hospital personnel should be on standby in case of emergency and
influx of patients.
ASTMMC management assured the public that they are
ready to accommodate victims of firecrackers.
Based on the report, no firecracker injuries
recorded during its first day of implementation. (PIA-Surigao del Sur)
PopCom Caraga mobilizes volunteers to meet
Duterte’s order
By Angie B. Antonio
BUTUAN CITY, Dec. 22 (PIA) - The Commission on
Population (PopCom) in Caraga fielded all the population volunteers to assist
couples in achieving their desired family size through modern family planning.
PopCom intensified its campaign on generating
demand for family planning in time for the Population and Development Week
event on November 23 – 29.
Anchored on the celebration’s theme “Achieve:
Wastong Bilang ng Pamilya,” various capacity-building activities for the
Barangay Population Volunteers were conducted by PopCom with funding assistance
from the Department of Health (DOH).
PopCom tapped the Barangay Population Volunteers to
conduct house to house visit to married couples of reproductive ages, to
validate and check if they are using modern family planning methods and if not,
motivate to come up with informed choices and refer said couples to the health
service facility for counseling and service provision.
Population volunteers are also mobilized in the
house to house profiling and monitoring of the status of unmet need for family
planning in the entire region to achieve zero unmet need.
The zero unmet need for modern family planning is
one of the thrusts of the DOH under the Duterte’s Administration as one of the
strategies in achieving all for health towards health for all.
About 80 Barangay Population Volunteers from each province of Surigao del Sur and
Agusan del Sur attended the two-day training on interpersonal communication and
counselling techniques on modern family planning. (POPCOM-Caraga/PIA-Caraga)
