Davaoe?os who passed the scandal-tainted June 2006 nursing board exams are junking the plan to require a retake of the test, while some bewailed the government?s failures in the education and health systems as the primary factors that created this mess. Jeffrey B. Javier reports.
DAVAO CITY ? The Sentro ng Alternatibong Lingap Panlegal (Saligan), a national law group, asserts that? there is no law that would be affected by the proposed ordinance banning aerial spraying, a fact that gives the Davao City government a wide space for local legislation.
The absence of a national law on aerial spraying has already been repeatedly stressed by officials of the Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority in several instances. No less than Dr. Norito Gicana, executive director of FPA, said in a letter that ?there is no specific law, circular or administrative order on aerial spraying.?
By Jenifer Libres
davaotoday.com
DAVAO CITY ? Medical experts in the city have expressed alarm over the public?s lack of awareness on diabetes, the 7th leading cause of death in the Philippines.
A common misconception, according to Dr. Roy Ferrer of the Davao Medical Center, is that only adults get diabetes, and that that the fatter the child, the healthier he is. Nothing could be farther from the truth, Ferrer said.
PANABO CITY— Is this city?s drinking water, especially those sold by water retailers, safe?
Provincial health officer Dr. Agapito Hornido raised this question this week as he disclosed that only six out of 16 establishments that sell water in the city passed the bacteriological water analysis done early this year.
DAVAO CITY — Latest laboratory analysis of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) have established that some areas in Mindanao, including Davao Oriental, are still positive of “red tide” toxins and have thus been put under a so-called ?shellfish ban.?
The coastal waters of Dumaguillas Bay in Zamboanga del Sur, Balite Bay in Mati, Davao Oriental, and Bislig Bay in Bislig City, Surigao del Sur have been found positive of red tide toxins.
