Post Office employees get booster jabs

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Postmaster General Norman Fulgencio of the Philippine Post Office has announced that they have conducted and administered the first batch of booster jabs on 1,000 post office frontline personnel and their eligible dependents with the assistance from Presidential Adviser for COVID-19 Response Secretary Vince Dizon and the City of Manila under the leadership of Mayor Isko Moreno.

Another 2,500 doses will be allocated for the 2nd batch post office employees and their eligible dependents this coming February 03.

“At the start of the year, a total of 3,500 booster shots has been allotted to post office employees and their families which is necessary to protect them against Omicron variant of COVID-19.”, Fulgencio said.

He added, “getting a Covid Vaccine booster shot gives public confidence that we are serving, including post office personnel and letter carriers they are dealing with are fully vaccinated with booster, erasing fear and doubts of acquiring the virus”.

Postal Areas nationwide are advised to coordinate with their local Barangay Health Unit.

“We are taking early guard to make our employees safe against new cases of infection surge across the country”, Fulgencio noted.

The government noted that vaccinations and boosters help lower the mortality risk and the burden on the country's health infrastructure.

Postmaster General Norman “Mr. Postman” Fulgencio thanked the Office of the President headed by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte for their support in the vaccination of post office workers and for his continuing effort to protect employees from contracting the virus to keep the workplace safe.

“It is necessary for our essential workers to secure vaccines most especially the letter carriers who are usually exposed in the field, as they continue to interact with the public in delivering mails and parcels”, he said.

6 million nurses needed amid the pandemic says World Health Organization

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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the global shortage of nurses—a challenge that the medical industry has been dealing with since 2016. According to the “State of the World’s Nursing”, a report released by the World Health Organization, there was a global shortage of 5.9 million nurses in 2018, a statistic which has been highly exacerbated during the pandemic.

Now more than ever, the world needs nurses – at least 6 million – to fill the global shortage, and consequently meet the global development goals on health, which are to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being at all ages, including the provision of universal health coverage.

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PEF supports relief and recovery efforts in Odette-hit areas

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When Supertyphoon Odette hit Kabankalan City in Negros Occidental, Fe Senining’s house was severely damaged, with all its roof blown away by powerful winds.


“Nagpayong kaming mag-asawa sa loob ng aming bahay buong gabi. Basang basa ang mga gamit namin,” she said.

Senining is one of the thousands of residents in Kabankalan that suffered from Odette’s wrath last December 2021. With no electricity and water supply, food crisis is looming in the holidays.

Responding to the immediate needs of the affected communities, the Peace and Equity Foundation, with the support from 15 different local and national organizations, have extended Php 3.5 million worth of food packs and housing materials to more than 6,800 households in seven provinces affected by the onslaught of Typhoon Odette.

In Negros Ociddental, which suffered an estimated Php 5 billion in damages to properties and livelihood and destroyed thousands of houses, PEF social enterprise partners, Hacienda Malaga Cuenca Agrarian Reform Cooperative, and Crossing Ibos Farmers Credit Cooperative led relief efforts in the sugar farming communities in La Castellana and Kabankalan.

 

Sugar Industry Foundation Inc. and Simag Foundation also spearheaded their own relief efforts to households in Sipalay City, Hinoba-an, and other towns in Negros Occidental.

“On December 19, 2021, the PEF board approved deployment of Php 2 million quick response fund to typhoon-stricken areas for food and non-food needs,” PEF Area Manager Peter Nabong said.

The board then approved an additional Php 1.5 million to support an additional 1,100 affected households on December 27.

“Aside from food packs and hygiene kits, we also provided funds to our partner organizations so they can provide roofing materials to households for home repairs,” Nabong added.

PEF also extended support to Surigao del Norte, one of the first areas hit by the Supertyphoon, through Hinatuan Passage Partnership for People Empowerment, Philippine Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Areas- Mindanao, and Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation.

Similar efforts by cooperatives, foundations, and people’s organizations were made in Cebu, Bohol, Negros Oriental, Southern Leyte, Dinagat Islands, and Palawan.
With the support she received, Fe Sinining said her worries for what will happen to them in the coming days have lessened.


“Nagpapasalamat po kmi sa tulong ng PEF sa pamamagitan po ng CIFCC. Nabigyan kami kaagad ng ayuda at malaking tulong po sa amin mga pinadala nilang food pack at yero,” she said.