News Briefs

KEEP STUDENTS SAFE FROM VIOLENCE

LAPU-LAPU City residents and barangay officials were urged over the weekend to cooperate with the school officials in keeping their children safe in school campuses.

In a speech before parents and their children in Pusok Elementary School, Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Paz Radaza said threats to students aren’t confined to shootings, robberies, bomb threats and drug pushers.

She said it can also include bullying in or outside school as well as online.

“It wasn’t long ago when we thought our students were  safe inside the school campuses. Nowadays we can’t be complacent. We must be vigilant,” she said.

Radaza called on school authorities to sit down with parents and coordinate with barangay officials in dealing with bullying and other security threats to school children.

“Let us take a stand against bullying. Just as we all take a stand to keep our school premises safe and secure for our children and pupils,” the mayor said. Correspondent Norman V. Mendoza

PHILHEALTH GIVES CARDS TO OVER 1-T MANDAUE FOLKS

ABOUT 1,600 Mandaue City urban poor residents were issued PhilHealth cards during an orientation by PhilHealth at the Mandaue City Sports and Cultural Center over the weekend.

Leonard Castañeda, head of PhilHealth Mandaue City branch, said their office also paid P731,500 to the Mandaue City government to help improve medical facilities of the City Health Department.

Castañeda said they are targeting the remaining 2,900 families for PhilHealth card distribution in Mandaue City under their “Philhealth MOVES” or Mobile Orientation Validation and Enrollment Scheme.

Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes said the Mandaue City government enrolled 15,000 indigent families to PhilHealth in the past two years. Correspondent Norman V. Mendoza