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Makati City News September 2011 (view source)
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=MAKATI GIVES ALL-OUT SUPPORT TO SYNCHRONIZED ACTION PROGRAM AGAINST DENGUE= | |||
:by icrd | |||
:Friday, September 30, 2011 | |||
:Source: http://www.makati.gov.ph/portal/news/view.jsp?id=2780&page=1 | |||
The city government of Makati on Monday, October 3, will present [[Magallanes, Makati, Philippines|Barangay Magallanes]] as a showcase of its progress in the citywide implementation of the “Synchronized Action to Fight Dengue in Metro Manila, Bayanihan para sa Kalusugan” spearheaded by the Department of Health Center for Health Development-Metro Manila (DOH CHD-MM). | |||
Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin S. Binay said a media conference will be held this Monday at 8:30am at Magallanes Village Gym, Magdalena Circle, where he will join Director Eduardo Janairo and other DOH-CHD officials, barangay officials of Magallanes led by chairman Armand Padilla, and officials from the other villages and neighboring barangays. | |||
“Makati is giving its all-out support to the synchronized action program against dengue, and we are glad to share our accomplishments to the public. We hope we will inspire other localities, especially those with a high incidence of sickness and death caused by dengue, to get their acts together towards making their communities dengue-free,” Binay said. | |||
The mayor said immediately after the program was launched last August, the city government mobilized all concerned agencies at the city and barangay levels and other stakeholders to hasten its implementation. These include the Makati Health Department, Department of Education-Makati Division, Department of Environmental Services, and Liga ng mga Barangay. | |||
Aside from conducting sustained clean-up operations in households, schools and common areas in the barangays of Makati, the combined teams have been working together in setting up ovi-larvi traps in households and schools to effectively monitor the presence of Aedes mosquitoes and destroy breeding sites. | |||
The Makati Health Department (MHD) has also set up a Facebook account where it can post relevant information on dengue prevention and control. At the same time, updates from the various barangays, including photos documenting their weekly activities posted in the account, have enabled health officials to keep track of the program’s implementation status. The account, Mhd Dengue, already has almost 200 members to date. | |||
Based on a report of the MHD, Makati has registered a total of 402 dengue fever cases from January 1 to September 15 of this year. To date, five deaths arising from dengue have been recorded in the city, the latest being a 27-year old female resident of [[Poblacion, Makati, Philippines|Barangay Poblacion]]. The other four fatalities were all minors with ages ranging from three to 13 years old. | |||
The MHD has been continuously conducting a massive health information drive on dengue through health center staff and school nurses. It has also laid larvae traps in the barangays and monitored the location of reported cases to identify high risk areas for dengue. | |||
=Makati govt owned collapsed frame= | |||
:by Ferdinand Fabella | |||
:Thursday, September 29, 2011 | |||
:Source: http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideMetro.htm?f=2011/september/29/metro1.isx&d=2011/september/29 | |||
A NATIONWIDE organization of outdoor advertisers pointed to the Makati city government as the owner of the structure that collapsed Tuesday at the height of typhoon Pedring’s onslaught and injured two motorists. | |||
The Makati-based Outdoor Advertising Association of the Philippines also clarified that the structure was not a commercial billboard but an “arc frame” not intended for regular advertising. | |||
Motorists Leandro Torres and Lorenza Garcia were injured when strong winds toppled the steel structure, pinning them inside their Toyota Corolla sedan at the corner of Osmeña Highway and Gil Puyat Avenue. | |||
A Mitsubishi Pajero sports utility vehicle and a passenger bus were also damaged in the incident. | |||
The Makati city government acknowledged that it owned the collapsed structure. | |||
City hall spokesman Joey Salgado said Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin Binay Jr. has accepted responsibility and will most likely extend assistance to the victims. | |||
OAAP president Ed Acosta said it has been a long-standing procedure for billboard operators to roll down all their advertising tarpaulins prior to an expected weather disturbance. | |||
“We have advised our members and even non-members to roll down billboard tarpaulins and they complied to show and express our common concern for public safety,” he said. | |||
Acosta also took a swipe at Metro Manila Development Authority Chairman Francis Tolentino for blaming billboard operators for Tuesday’s incident. | |||
In a television interview, tolentino said the collapsed frame was “structurally defective” and did not comply with the regulation that it should withstand strong winds of up to 240 kilometer per hour. | |||
Acosta said the MMDA chief should have checked his facts first before directly blaming billboard operators. | |||
The MMDA is fighting a court order that stopped it from implementing a billboard ban. | |||
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ALI shares declined 1.03 percent to P13.50 each on Monday’s close. | ALI shares declined 1.03 percent to P13.50 each on Monday’s close. | ||
=Sprinklers for old buildings mulled= | =Sprinklers for old buildings mulled= | ||