NYC calls on youth orgs to register in YORP
CENTRAL VISAYAS, Sept 21 (PIA) -- The National Youth Commission invites youth and youth-serving organizations nationwide to register with the agency’s Youth Organizations’ Registration Program (YORP).
The YORP is the agency’s mechanism to have a youth network in the country. “Lahat ng youth organizations sa buong bansa ay pwedeng magpa-register. Whether kayo ay national org, community-based, school-based, religious, out-of-school youth org, young professionals org, or youth with special needs org, lahat po ay pwedeng sumali,” says Commissioner Erwin Chua Andaya, who heads the YORP Program.
Commissioner Andaya says this is also the best time to link up with NYC as the YORP Policy on Registration has recently been revised to facilitate easier registration for youth organizations.
“Konti na lang ang requirements para makapag-register sa YORP. Importante diyan, dapat kayo ay may at least 15 members at may edad 15-30 years old. Kailangan nyo lang i-submit sa amin ay registration form, directory of officers and members, and certification or endorsement ng school, baranggay, or simbahan,” says Commissioner Andaya.
Through this nationwide registration of youth and youth-serving organizations, the Commission hopes to build linkages with the youth and facilitate a more active participation in its programs.
“Kung registered kayo with NYC, mas madali kayong matutulungan ng agency sa trainings or workshops na kailangan ng inyong org para lumago at mas makatulong pa sa inyong community,” adds Andaya.
To know more about the program and the requirements for registration, please follow this link http://nyc.gov.ph/national-youth-commission-policy-development/national-youth-commission-programsor contact our NYC Visayas Area office through our landline, 032-268-9531 or email at nycvisayas@gmail.com and look for Queenie Dadulo or Maureen Fernandez.
The NYC was created in 1995 pursuant to RA 8044 otherwise known as the “Youth in Nation-Building Act”, as the policy-making, coordinating body of all youth-related institutions, programs, projects, and activities of the government. It is an attached agency of the President of the Philippines . (PIA-7/mbcn & NYC-Visayas)
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CENTRAL VISAYAS, Sept 21 (PIA) -- Following the success of last year’s Youth Summit, which inspired more than 18,000 aspiring and existing small entrepreneurs, Go Negosyo will have its third Young Entrepreneurs Summit on September 23, 2011 at the World Trade Center.
Themed, "Be Smart, Be Enterprising," the Summit will gather the entrepreneurs of tomorrow, youth from different high schools and colleges, to reinforce an enterprising spirit and to empower them with the relevant entrepreneurship tools to help them move up in life.
The day will be filled with opportunities of listening and meeting the country’s best speakers such as Gibo Teodoro, Bo Sanchez, Mike Enriquez, Josiah Go, Henry Tenedero, Michael Angelo Lobrin and Roselle Ambubuyog whose insights will surely inspire the young to discover the best in themselves and work at succeeding in life.
Young celebrities such as Cristalle Henares, Bam Aquino, RJ David, Kenneth Cobonpue and Iliac Diaz will also be present to share personal motivations in becoming the icons that they are today.
A hundred exciting business ideas await the participants in the expo and student bazaar and admission is free for students and teachers. (NYC-7 & From Go Negosyo)
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Philhealth implements new case rates
by: Hazel F. Gloria
CEBU CITY, September 20 (PIA) -- The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) is now implementing the new case rate packages for selected medical conditions and surgical procedures in institutional health care facilities accredited by the health insurance corporation.
During the AGIO-7 forum this morning, Atty. Karisma Agraviador, Pulic Relations Officer of Philhealth informed the media about this new case rates that serve to package payment for health interventions.
Agraviador explained that with this new program of PhilHealth, it benefits all members, providers and the corporation as it is much simpler to administer, and it potentially is more transparent in terms of prices for interventions.
This also serves to keep members within the PhilHealth system as well as to encourage those people who are prospective members to join the social health insurance fund, Agraviador added.
She further explained, through this mechanism, members will be able to predict how much PhilHealth would be paying for each of the services provided.
The new case rates shall be new reimbursement rates for all cases specified such as for medical, dengue 1 (dengue fever and DHF Grades I & II) is P8,000; dengue II (DHF Grades III & IV) is P16,000; pneumonia I (moderate risk) is P15,000; pneumonia II (high risk) is P32,000; essential hypertension is P9,000; celebral infarction (CVA I) is P28,000; cerebro-vascular accident (hemorrhage) (CVA II) is P38,000; acute gastroenteritis (AGE) is P6,000; Asthma is P9,000; typhoid fever is P14,000 and newborn care package in Hospitals and lying in clinics P1,750.
For surgical cases, these are the following; radiotherapy is P3,000; hemodilaysis is P4,000; maternity care package (MCP) is P8,000; NSD package in level 1 hospitals is P8,000; NSD package in levels 2 and 4 hospitals is P6,500; caesarian section is P19,000; appendectomy is P24,000; cholecystectomy is P31,000; dilatation and curettage is P11,000; thyroidectomy is P31,000; herniorrhaphy is P21,000; mastectomy is P22,000; hysterectomy is P30,000 and cataract surgery is P16,000.
In addition to case rate payments and with the thrust of the Government to attain Universal Health Coverage in 3 years by providing optimal financial risk protection for all its members, especially to the poorest of the poor, the Corporation adopted a “No Balance Billing” policy (NBB) for the most common medical and surgical conditions experienced by the member clients.
This new policy applied to all PhilHealth Sponsored Program members and/or their dependents for the specified cases and as along as the patient is admitted to government facilities or hospitals.
Agraviador said, this new policy means that no other fees or expenses shall be charged or paid for by the patient-member based on the mentioned package rates.(PIA-7/HFG)
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Pag-Ibig Fund Mandaue branch transfers back to Ayala
By: Hazel F. Gloria
CEBU CITY, September 20 (PIA) --- The Pag-Ibig Fund Mandaue branch has moved back to W.T. Tower along Mindanao Avenue corner Archbishop Street at the CebuBusiness Park in Cebu City. It used to hold office at A.S. Fortuna Street in Mandaue City to allow easy access of clients from the north
During the AGIO-7 General Assembly, Dale Mark Antonio, Information Officer of Pag-Ibig Mandaue branch informed the members that the office needs to be transferred because the contract of lease of the building in Mandaue City has already expired and the cost of rentals are getting too expensive.
Pag-Ibig Mandaue branch will occupy the third and fourth floors of the W.T. Tower building starting October 3, 2011.
To facilitate the transfer, the branch in Mandaue City will be closed on September 29 and 30, Thursday and Friday. However, some personnel will be left behind to receive payments from its clients.
In its notice of transfer, the Pag-Ibig Fund Mandaue branch is now called as Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMF) – Cebu North Branch,
servicing clients from Mandaue City, Lapu-Lapu City and other areas in northern Cebu.
On the other hand, the Pag-Ibig Cebu south branch is at the W.T. Tower building serving clients from the southern areas of Cebu including Cebu City.
For inquiries, clients from these areas may contact telephone numbers 422-3621 for PBD, 422-3620 for M & E, 422-3607 for HLD or Office of the Department Manager at 422-3608.(PIA-7/HFG/Pag-Ibig Fund Mandaue branch)
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LGUs urged to form solid waste management board to address garbage
By Fayette C. Riñen
CEBU CITY, Sept. 20 (PIA) -- Local government units (LGUs) are urged to form or reactivate their solid waste management board (SWMB) to address their garbage and improve solid waste management and resource conservation.
Engr. Amancio Dongcoy, regional solid waste program coordinator of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environment Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) 7 said it is high time for LGUs to take the necessary actions in addressing the worsening solid waste problem in compliance with RA 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000.
Dongcoy said local chief executives need to address a lot of concerns and the most practical thing to do is for mayors to form their respective SWMB to ensure that something is being done to address their garbage.
“There should be a solid waste management board in every local government unit. These boards will be responsible in recommending or instituting measures to manage their solid waste problem,” Dongcoy disclosed.
Eleven years have passed since RA 9003 was enacted but most LGUs still have to comply with the law particularly on the establishment of a sanitary landfill as open dumpsites are strictly not allowed effective in 2006, according to Dongcoy.
Although Dongcoy admitted that construction of a sanitary landfill is very expensive at P10M per hectare, the next best thing to do is for LGUs to build their own residual storage facility. Non-biodegradable wastes can be placed inside sacks and stored inside the facility while biodegradable should undergo composting or recycling, this is said.
For a start, SWMBs can recommend to the mayors to pass local ordinances related on addressing solid waste problem such as anti-littering or strict implementation on household segregation of wastes with corresponding penalties, Dongcoy said.
The DENR-7 official however noted that most LGUs have started the implementation of household wastes segregation and even enforced the “No segregation, no collection policy,” while others have passed an anti-littering ordinance, Dongcoy further said.
In Cebu however, Dongcoy reported two cities and two municipalities that are not strictly enforcing the anti-littering law namely the City of Naga and Bogo City as well as the towns of Balamban andMinglanilla.
“I am calling out to these LGUs to please address the littered wastes in your area,” Dongcoy appealed.
Dongcoy also said the SWMBs could check whether barangays have established their own material recovery facility (MRF) as mandated under the law. Household wastes that can still be used are brought to the MRF for recycling and others for composting.
“The law encourages barangays to form a cluster and establish their own common compost area to address the lack of composting site in some barangays,” Dongcoy advised. (PIA-Cebu)