by anyajulia | Aug 22, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
IF only to allay fears of being displaced, the Capitol re-engineering scheme is something to be excited about, said administrator Atty. Tomas Abapo.
The re-engineering has stirred Capitol rank and file over speculations that civil service protected employees may not even be spared from the employee movements.
Earlier, Governor Erico Aumentado and Vice Governor Julius Caesar Herrera have pushed for the re-engineering to streamline government operations and make a lean and mean government operations as well as keep the needed savings to fund other development initiatives.
Now, with the elections nearing, employees have started to doubt about its realization in as much as the decision to push through with the plan may dent on political standings of elected officials in the Capitol.
Over these, the provincial Administrator said the plan is now on its finishing touches at the office of Capitol’s Human Resource Management and Development Office.
Reporting during the weekly The Governor’s Reports, Atty. Abapo reasoned out that the re-engineering has nothing to be apprehensive about.
He said that re-engineering is a move to put the employees rightfully in each place in the organization.
Insider sources at the Capitol also bare that indeed, there are employees in whose jobs are duplications of other tasks, making Capitol be saddled with too much bureaucracy.
Employees who are now saddled with too much job while earning little compared to those of the same office who have relatively lesser work load and get paid better need to be equalized, the sources agree.
To make the offer even more appealing, the provincial administrator added that they have packed exciting early retirement packages for retireable employees willing to bow out of service, in line with the reorganization plan.
The Capitol early retirement package is different from the GSIS plans employees get upon their termination in service, according to him. (PIA)
by anyajulia | Aug 20, 2009 | Headlines, National News
The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) assured its members that there is nothing to be worried about in terms of its financial stability.
The National Health Insurance Fund remains stable and it can very well provide for the hospitalization benefits of PhilHealth members from the different member categories.
PhilHealth’s investment portfolio as of July 31 stands at P91 billion. Though there is a need to step-up collection efforts to ensure the sustained life of the fund, especially with the recent enhancement in inpatient care benefits without any immediate increase in premium contributions. Thus its recent demand for the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to remit the government’s counterpart contributions to state employees. (PIA)
*Taken from the media statement of PhilHealth.
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by anyajulia | Aug 20, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
Cough of more than two weeks may be TB or tuberculosis. This was according to Dr. Enrique Sancho, Department of Health (DOH-7) Regional Program Coordinator of the Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Program.
Sancho said tuberculosis is a highly infectious airborne disease and could easily be spread to others but the danger posed is when one is asymptomatic of the illness except for the chronic cough.
Common manifestations of TB are cough of at least two weeks, fever, blood-tinged sputum and weight loss. The chronic cough alone should be a warning not to be complacent and to immediately seek medical check-up.
The DOH-7 official said one can just go to their barangay health center to have a sputum exam to determine the presence of the bacteria mainy Myobacterium tuberculosis that usually attacks the lungs. The sputum exam is given for free in the barangay health centers.
The Month of August is celebrated as National Lung Month where TB is one of the top common lung diseases afflicting Filipinos after pneumonia and lung cancer. (PIA/FCR)
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by anyajulia | Aug 20, 2009 | Headlines, National News
Central Visayas is included in the top 10 regions nationwide with the highest incidence rate of TB cases; Cebu with the highest number of cases of tuberculosis (TB) in the region.
Central Visayas has slightly over 7,000 TB cases last year with almost 50 percent of these cases found in Cebu. Based on the 2009 World Health Organization Report, in 2007, the Philippines has recorded over 86,000 TB cases.
TB is one of the top 10 leading cause of morbidity and mortality rates in the country.
TB is a common and contagious disease caused by a bacteria mainly Myobacterium tuberculosis in humans which usually attacks the lungs. Symptoms include chronic cough with blood-tinged sputum, fever, night sweats and weight loss, this is learned. (PIA/FCR)
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by anyajulia | Aug 20, 2009 | Headlines, National News
Leyte hosts the National Assembly of the Vice Governors League of the Philippines as Vice Governors from the different provinces of the country arrive today.
Leyte Vice Governor Mimyet Bagulaya, also the National Treasurer of the League, said that the national assembly is scheduled to be conducted at the Leyte Park Hotel in Tacloban City on August 20 to 22.
Leading the participants are Vice Governor Julius Cesar Herrera of Bohol who is the President of the League and Ilocos Sur Vice Governor Jeremias Singzon who is the Chairman of the Board.
The assembly will tackle the issues of Climate Change, as a Science and in the creation of policies; and the 2010 Election Automation, Vice Governor Bagulaya said.
The Vice Governors League of the Philippines has the primary purpose of ventilating, articulating, and crystallizing issues affecting provincial government administration specially those concerning local legislation and securing, through proper and legal means, solutions thereto. (PIA)
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