Parañaque City News September 2011
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P’que City marks med tech month this September
- Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=55075
- By: Jell E. Guzman
- September 19, 2011
PARAÑAQUE CITY- Joining the nation in celebrating Medical Technology Month this September, the Parañaque City government has lined-up activities in recognition to one of the most important branches in health service.
In line with this, the Laboratory Services Division of the City Health Office held free blood chemistry (FBS, Cholesterol, BUA, BUN, Creatinine, Trigylcerides, HDL, LDL, ALT, AST) services to city hall employees.
Likewise, the city government will also host the Philippine Association of Medical Technologists, Inc. (PAMET) organized advocacy program for the National Capital Region.
Career orientation with free blood typing will be held at the Parañaque Science High School campus in Brgy. Sto. Niño on Wednesday, September 21.
Meanwhile, the 30th PAMET-PASMETH Inter-School Quiz Show which will be held Thursday, September 22 at the Centro Escolar University in Mendiola, Manila will be participated in by Medical Technology colleges and universities from all over the country.
Parañaque City’s Laboratory Services Division chief Joycelynn Aman, RMT, MBA has been chosen by the organizing committee as one of the judges in the said competition.
Manila joins 26th International Coastal Cleanup celeb Saturday
- Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=54742
- By: Jell E. Guzman
- September 17, 2011
More than 5,000 volunteers will be joining hundreds of thousands other volunteers across the globe in today’s celebration of the 26th International Coastal Cleanup Day dubbed “Trash Free Seas.”
This year’s theme highlights the pollution problem caused by ocean trash, and the threat of marine debris to human health, wildlife, communities, and even economies worldwide.
Environment and Natural Resources Sec. Ramon Paje said the celebration gives Filipinos a feeling of unity with the rest of the world in cleaning up our oceans and other bodies of water.
Volunteers from government and private sectors, academe, civic organizations, and civil society will bring sacks, rakes and gloves to collect marine debris at the Freedom and Long Islands in Brgy. San Dionisio in Parañaque City.
According to Paje, the cleanup site is a portion of the Las Piñas-Parañaque Critical Habitat Tourism Area.
Local chief executives Mayor Florencio Bernabe of Parañaque and Mayor Vergel Aguilar of Las Piñas will be joining Secretary Paje, and Metro Manila Development Authority Chairman Francis Tolentino in the coastal cleanup.
“Many of our partner agencies will also offer for free their services and equipment such as dump trucks, fire trucks, medical personnel, portalets, and other logistic support for the volunteers,” said Paje.
He added that last year’s volunteers picked up some 240,360 kilograms of debris from both land and sea in one day.
“How much more trash is her that make their way into our seas for the rest of the year,” lamented the DENR chief.
The International Coastal Cleanup Day is an annual global effort organized by Washington-based Ocean Conservancy to remove trash and debris from beaches and waterways, and aims to change human behaviors.
For over 25 years, Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup has become the world’s largest volunteer effort for ocean health. Nearly nine million volunteers from 152 countries and locations have cleaned 145 million pounds of trash from the shores of lakes, streams, rivers, and the ocean in just one day each year.
Based on Ocean Conservancy’s 2011 Report, the Philippines ranked second to the United States in its “25-Year Top Ten Participating Countries” with 2,907,608 volunteers.
In the Philippines, ICC Day is celebrated annually on the third Saturday of September as declared through Presidential Proclamation No. 470.
Meanwhile, Presidential Proclamation No. 244 was also declared the month of September as National Cleanup Month.
Parañaque City to host fun run against hunger
- Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=ncr&id=53113
- By: PIA
- September 08, 2011
The city government of Parañaque will host the “1st TAKBOlayan,” a fun run against hunger on Saturday, September 10, 2011.
Parañaque City Mayor Florencio Bernabe said the city is pleased to host this undertaking.
The local chief executive also said the special event for children and adults supports the city’s vegetable gardening project in cooperation with Save the Children, Kraft Foods, and the Department of Education.
Future Resilience and Stronger Households in the Philippines (FRESH) Program manager Norma Chan-Pongan cited that in the Philippines, one in three children under five years old, and one in five schoolchildren are underweight.
“As a response, we teach families to use their own backyards to plant vegetable and fruits. We also make menus to help overcome children’s dislike for vegetable dishes. Now, all they need to do is to go to their garden to pick healthy and nutritious food,” said Pongan.
Since January 2010, Project FRESH has taught mothers and children urban vegetable gardening as an effective way to fight hunger and malnutrition.
Meanwhile, Bernabe cited the project’s favorable results to the city.
“After 12 months into the program, we monitored that hunger incidence among families practicing urban vegetable gardening went down from 29 percent to 20 percent,” noted Bernabe.
Likewise, families are trained on nutrition, recycling, composting, and livelihood opportunities through their gardens.
Proceeds from the Fun Run will be used to train more families from all 16 barangays of the city. Project FRESH is also implemented in Antique and Lake Sebu in South Cotabato.
This event also supports the “GulayanSaPaaralan” program of the Department of Education. At the end of the run, seeds and soil will be available for those who want to help the project.
Registration is ongoing. Fees are P100 for government and non-government organization employees; P300 for 3K run and P600 for 6K run for private groups and corporations.
The fun run will start at the Parañaque City Hall at 5:30 a.m.
Interested participants may also help by sponsoring a student-runner who is part of the families in the project.
For more details please contact Elizabeth Diokno of the City Health Office at 826-8195 or 0922-8516681.
People have not forgotten the late President Corazon Aquino on the second anniversary of her death.
In Manila, confetti rained on the brass monument of the late president as the city government declared August 1 Corazon C. Aquino Day.
The ceremony, at Roxas Boulevard and Padre Burgos Drive, was led by Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim and attended by former members of Cory's cabinet.
And in Paranaque City, people have started flocking to her grave at the Manila Memorial Park, where she is buried beside her husband, Benigno Aquino Jr., whose murder in 1983 sparked the broad anti-dictatorship movement that ousted strongman Ferdinand Marcos in February 1986 and installed Cory as the country's first woman president.
Paranaque police have gone on alert in expectation of the crowds who will pay tribute to the 11th president of the Republic of the Phiippines.
In a related development, her son, President Benigno Aquino III, is expected to visit her grave at 4 p.m. today.