PIA Davao Region

MALITA, Davao Occidental, Feb. 15 (PIA) – The vaccination rollout for the 5-11 years old group in Malita, Davao Occidental went smoothly on Tuesday (Feb. 15) at the New Malita gymnasium where kids got to pose for posterity with cartoon character standees and watched the film “Frozen” after getting vaccinated.   As of 3:00 p.m. on same day, 210 children mostly from Barangay Poblacion in Malita received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine on the first day of vaccination for this age group in the province.     Davao Occidental Provincial Health Office Chief Dr. Anne Margaux Bautista-Quezada said that 1,300 doses of the Pfizer vaccines were allocated for the provincial launch of the pediatric vaccination.   "Very receptive. Some of them are really excited… At five in the morning some kids are already ready, super excited,” Bautista-Quezada shared in an interview on the reception of parents and their children on the vaccination against COVID-19.   “ So after ng pr...

DAVAO CITY, Feb. 11 (PIA) – The personnel of the 73 rd  Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army engaged with the youth in Malita, Davao Occidental in bringing various government services in the remote communities in the municipality of Jose Abad Santos.   In the outreach program, the Malita-based 73 rd  IB and the Youth for Peace Movement TALBOS Malita Chapter conducted feeding program for the children and distributed school supplies, household materials, food packs, solar lights and slippers for the residents of Sitio Lalupon in Barangay Malalan in JAS.   “Kini nga among gipa abot sa inyoha, dili man gyud ingon-ani kadako pero kana ang gusto lang namo ipa bati sa inyoha nga kamo hinumduman gihapon mo sa gobyerno pinaagi sa amoa nga kasundaluhan (What we delivered to you is not so big, but we just want to make you feel that you are remembered by the government through us,” 73 rd  IB Commander Lt. Col. Antonio F. Quimado, Jr. said in his message during the out...

  MALITA, Davao Occidental, Jan. 28 – The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) – Davao Occidental provincial office is expected to complete its January 2022 Labor Force Survey (LFS) and 2021 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) by end of January this year.   Jessie A. Madulin, PSA Davao Occidental chief statistical specialist, said that his office hired 52 statistical researchers to interview 1,540 sample households from the different barangays of the five municipalities in the province.   The statistical researchers are using the Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) during the interviews, Madulin said in a press release.   He added that the researchers have been trained to equip them with the concepts and definition, related knowledge, enumeration strategies and responsibilities to ensure quality of output and compliance to targets and survey requirements.   Madulin explained that the LFS is a nationwide quarterly survey of households conducte...

DAVAO CITY, Jan. 5 (PIA) – The Provincial Health Office of Davao Occidental has intensified its assistance in the COVID-19 vaccination in the five municipalities of the province, in a bid to finally reach herd immunity.     The administration of the COVID-19 vaccines though has been part of the efforts of the PHO since the onset of the vaccination drive especially in the municipality of Malita, but starting this month the PHO is set to help in the vaccination activities of the other local government units.   “Our assistance is not just technical, not just monitoring, but the PHO has also established our own vaccination site and has been administering the vaccines as help to our LGUs,” said Prince Paraiso, PHO’s Health Education and Promotion Officer.   Paraiso said that after Malita this week, the PHO’s vaccination team will be going to Jose Abad Santos and Sta. Maria in the following weeks.     “Hopefully by February we can proceed to Sarangani,” he a...

DAVAO CITY, Dec. 24 (PIA) – The senior high school graduating students in Davao Occidental province were urged to apply for the Science Education Institute (SEI) undergraduate scholarship program of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). DOST Davao Occidental Provincial Director Maria Victoria I. Dado has called on the grade 12 students who will be graduating next year and will be taking up college degrees, especially from the low-income families to take advantage of the opportunity to become scholars under the DOST-SEI.   The deadline of submission of the documentary requirements has been extended until December 31, 2021.   Dado said that eligible to apply are students belonging to the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) strand and non-STEM who belong to the top 15 percent of the graduating class.   She said that since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the applicants are no longer required to take the exams, but their academic ratings in g...

DAVAO CITY, Dec. 7 (PIA) – The students aged 12-17 years old in Sarangani, the island municipality of Davao Occidental province, were urged to be inoculated against COVID-19 in preparation for the face to face classes early next year. Dr. Roy T. Enriquez, chief administrative officer of the Department of Education Region XI (DepEd-XI), has also called on the parents to encourage their children to join the government’s vaccination program.   “We are proud to tell our learners that in Region 11, we have already eight schools which participated in the limited face-to-face classes. Three in Davao del Sur and five in Davao de Oro,” Enriquez stated in an interview with the Padayon News of the Schools Division of Davao Occidental during the kick off of the National Vaccination Days in Barangay Mabila, Sarangani.   He said that they are expecting an expansion of the implementation of the limited face-to-face classes, not only in schools in the main land of Davao Region, but also in sc...

RPSB in Brgy Marabatuan, Jose Abad Santos, Davao Occidental DAVAO CITY, Oct. 28 (PIA) – The active involvement of the Revitalized Pulis sa Barangay (RPSB) teams in the “barangayanihan” activities in the province of Davao Occidental has brought various assistance to the communities.   In the continuing rollout of the “barangayanihan” in far-flung barangays in the five municipalities of the province, the RPSB teams of the Davao Occidental Police Provincial Office (DOPPO) have already extended several assistance and services such food packs, hygiene kits, school supplies, feeding program, coastal clean-up, livelihood kits and skills training.     PMaj. Mark A. Janolino, DOPPO acting chief of the provincial community affairs and development unit, explained that the RPSB is the PNP’s commitment in pursuing a police-to-community relationship during disasters and emergency.   Janolino said that RPSB teams have also been collaborating with the local government units and nati...

DAVAO CITY, Oct. 22 (PIA) – The Philippine Statistics Authority Davao Occidental has already recorded 182,359 residents or 97 per cent of the 187,000 target population in the province, who have completed registration with the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) as of October 20, 2021.   Davao Occidental Provincial Statistics Officer Jessie Madulin is hoping that the remaining 5,000 population targeted this year will register before the year ends.   During his guesting in today’s Gobyernong Balitaan radio program of the Philippine Information Agency Davao Occidental on Energy FM Digos City, Madulin bared that the total registrants of the national ID system represents 57% of the total population (317,159) of the province.   To ensure continuous registration of residents in far-flung barangays, the PSA official said that they are currently employing mobile registration in selected barangays.   In the Municipality of Malita, the registration activities are located...

Sec. Andanar with Don Marcelino Brgy Lapuan SK chair Yemar Gulo DAVAO CITY, Oct. 15 (PIA) – The Sangguniang Kabataan council of Barangay Lapuan in Don Marcelino town, Davao Occidental, has initiated a program that aims to promote active lifestyle and positivity among the youth amid the pandemic.     Guesting in today’s episode of Laging Handa Network Briefing with Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar, SK Chair Yemar Gulo said that the program is dubbed as LUGPAT or Learning Ultimate Games to Promote Active Lifestyle and Total Well-Being.   Gulo explained that lugpat is coined from the Kaolo term (dialect of the Tagakaolo tribe) which means to jump. “So LUGPAT is an activity that will encourage the students to jump into a current set-up due to pandemic.”   The program’s activities include information drive, teaching young children how to read, distribution of relief goods and clothes and giving of reading materials in the remote sitios of the coas...

DAVAO CITY, Oct. 15 (PIA) – Jose Abad Santos Mayor Jason John Joyce of Davao Occidental said that the vaccination rate in the municipality has recently improved due to the increased awareness among the constituents on the vaccination campaign against COVID-19.   Although the mayor admitted that there was vaccination hesitancy among their senior citizens, he said that the local government unit and the health care frontliners like the midwives and barangay health workers have never ceased explaining the importance of the vaccination.   “Never  tayo nagkaroon ng kakulangan sa mga bakuna mula sa  national government. We really appreciate the Duterte presidency for being very efficient in providing vaccines for far flung areas especially in the GIDAs and poor municipalities,” Joyce stated.   The vaccination rollout is ongoing with the help of the Provincial Health Office of Davao Occidental and the Department of Health Region XI, the mayor said during Friday’s (...