The City Local Government Unit (LGU) is currently preparing for the Local Public Transport Route Plan (LPTRP), the city’s master route plan after the approval of the Land Transportation Franchise Regulatory Board (LTFRB) Region XII. While the project will go through a long process before it is fully implemented, City
The Local Government Unit (LGU) Koronadal will set up a standardized garbage receptacle in every household as city’s official waste holder. It’s a black plastic bag with the city’s logo on it, which makes it easy to identify the rubbish that the garbage collectors have to transport. To fully explain
Starting this week, 368 newly-hired contact tracers will be deployed by the local government as an additional force of the City’s existing Contact Tracing Teams (CTTs) in a bid to possibly curb the number of COVID-19 positive cases in the City of Koronadal. All of them had undergone a health
More adolescents and young adults are reported to suffer from depression and anxiety, especially at the onset of Covid-19. Recently, the issue of suicides among them has been a disturbing reality, with some linking it to the difficulty of adapting to new normal. To help the young cope with current
From a typical face to face one-on-one and group counseling, the Aftercare team of the City Anti-Drug and Abuse Council (CADAC) shifted to online counseling so as not to delay the 18-month program of the 25 Recovering Drug Dependents (RDDs). Using a certain virtual application, each client received psychological and
The rabies cases in the City of Koronadal are still on the rise after the City Veterinary Office (City Vet) recorded another two (2) more cases last September, this year. Due to the recent new cases of rabies, the city has now recorded a total of eight (8) cases from
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Region XII is set to build a Regional Evacuation Center at Barangay San Jose, City of Koronadal. With a projected allocation of Php36,000,000 with an area of 3,000 sqm, RD Basir Ibrahim, Regional Director of DPWH XI, vowed to give priority to
The stigma of discrimination associated with lack of knowledge about how COVID-19 spread is a reality that left the survivors a scar that sometimes will take time to heal. Aside from the fears about the disease and death, the gossip that spreads rumors and myths scare them away. Ken, 41,
After the number of COVID-19 cases increased in the city, more isolation wards were built by the local government with the help of the Department of Education (DepEd) XII. The said agency had offered the buildings of Saravia Elementary School as well as the Junior and Senior High School classrooms
Koronadal’s City Health Office (CHO) is set to extend its health services in its 27 barangays using a district approach. It consists of three (3) districts-CHO which serves as the main district, Barangay Gen. Paulino Santos (GPS) and Concepcion. CHO physician Dr Stephen Mortera presented the rationale of the program