Five male foreigners availed of free vasectomy services at the City Health Office (CHO) under the “No Scalpel Vasectomy” operation.
A hospital for physically deformed child patients here has accepted two children from conflict-affected province of Basilan province.
The city’s Lingap Para sa Mahirap, a government program which caters to the needs of indigent patients has transferred to its new office.
A 2015 population census showed that Davao del Sur was the fastest growing province in Davao region with an average annual population growth of 1.84 percent.
Local inventions that help reduce air pollution will be exhibited in an invention event slated on Nov. 15 to 17 at the Sangguniang Panlungsod Building, coinciding with the observance of the National Clean Air Month.
In a bid to address road congestion, the City Planning and Development Office and the City Transport and Traffic Management Office will implement an “experimental loading and unloading segregation scheme.”
Despite the non-passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law in Congress early this year, Moro Islamic Liberation Front Peace Implementing Panel Chair Mohagher Iqbal said they still trust the lawmakers. But he appealed to Congress not to fail the Bangsamoro people and called on government officials to fast track the BBL.
Japan-based commodity supplier Farmind Corporation is eyeing to put up banana plantations in conflict areas of Mindanao, a Cabinet official said.
The executive order signed by President Rodrigo Duterte on Freedom of Information will take effect on Nov. 25.
The City Government of Tagum was conferred the 2016 Seal of Good Local Governance which showed the local government’s improvement of financial administration, disaster preparedness and social protection.