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Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease cases up in Davao
The Department of Health in the Davao Region is urging caution as cases of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease (HFMD) continue to rise in Southern Mindanao.
The construction of a kidney center in Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) is expected to be done within this year or in 2020. The facility will have more equipments to cater more kidney patients. (Photo from SPMC Facebook page)
SPMC explains side on PhilHealth controversy
An official of the Southern Philippine Medical Center in a statement refuted claims that the hospital is engaged in anomalies on the use of the P326 million reimbursement from PhilHealth for Covid-19 patients.
Mindanao Lumad struggle for empowerment through education (Part 4 of 4)
Indigenous education continues to adapt to traditional forms in indigenous communities while also responding to the loss of indigenous knowledge brought about by colonization and globalization.
Assumption Grade School Extension in Barangay Panalum, Paquibato
Mindanao Lumad struggle for empowerment through education (Part 3 of 4)
After walking along a steep, rough road in the middle of the hinterlands of Panalum, one sees the three-classroom building made of amakan leaves in the center of a hectare wide ancestral domain of the Ata tribe of Paquibato.
LIFT MARTIAL LAW. Students from Salugpongan Ta Tanu Igkanogon Learning Center Inc. from Talaingod town, in Davao del Norte continue to call on President Rodrigo Duterte to lift Martial law and stop militarization in Lumad schools as they hold a protest with their teachers in front of the Department of Education (DepEd) Region in Davao City on Thursday, July 27. President Rodrigo Duterte warned he will bomb the schools which he claimed are teaching "subversion and communism" during his second State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 24. (Robby Joy D. Salveron/davaotoday.com)
Mindanao Lumad struggle for empowerment through education (Part 2 of 4)
The SOS network said that Lumad schools have been constantly attacked by government troops. Prior to the Martial Law declaration in Mindanao, there have documented 87 incidents of attacks on schools under the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte starting July 2016.