Binay Urges Mercado To Ask SP To Enact Resolution For Housing Project

Feb. 2,2011

Binay Urges Mercado To Ask SP To Enact Resolution For Housing Project

By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.

Maasin City Southern Leyte-Vice-President Jejomar Binay has urged Governor Damian Mercado to ask the Sangguniang Panlalawigan to enact resolution for housing project intended for Southern Leyte to make it official.

This was the disclosure of former SP member Jason Calva, the undefeated third termer, now works as a Capitol Consultant to the provincial government, during the recent session held at the provincial capitol here.

Calva informed that Governor Mercado had a discussion with the Vice-President in Manila during his visit there, the latter being the Chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC). He said Binay wanted to see personally the province of Southern Leyte for such plan of the aforesaid project.

He said HUDCC is an umbrella organization of the LHURB and the National Housing Authority and other housing institutions of the national government. The housing institution, he said, was created thru Executive Order no. 19 dated Dec. 17, 1986 of which the Chairmanship is usually handled by the Vice-President.

The former SP Financial Chair claimed that Binay has committed 100 to 150 housing units for the province. The earmarked budget is something like P36M or more,

Asked by SP Albert Esclamado if the province has to put a counterpart, Calva answered in the affirmative, saying a lot where the housing units are to be constructed. That is, any LGU recipient would have to provide a lot as counterpart, he said.

The Consultant also made clear to Esclamado that if the project would materialize in the near future, the number of housing units would be distributed in selected municipalities after it would be identified by a task force formed and approved by the Governor.

However, SP Teopisto Rojas,Jr. has revealed that in Metro Manila where similar projects were existing, housing units that were distributed to the lower middle class were in the form of soft loans, but not for free.

Calva told Rojas and the rest of SP members, that according to the information he got in the HUDCC’s website relative to the housing program, if beneficiaries are considered indigents and certified by the DSWD, it would be a grant to them, as it was in other provinces.

But for the higher income families like some of the beneficiaries in Metro Manila, he said, the procedure in acquiring might be similar.

In answer to Esclamado if the HUDCC Chair or its staff will be the one to identify the recipients, Calva clarified that it would be the provincial government, while the only role of the former is to provide the housing units in accordance with its specifications.

Moreover, the third termer SP member reiterated the earlier call of Binay for the SP to enact a resolution addressing it immediately to the latter’s office for approval.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)

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LGU-Sogod To Establish Blood Donor Program

Feb. 2,2011

LGU-Sogod To Establish Blood Donor Program

By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.

Maasin City, Southern Leyte-The local government of Sogod town will be going to establish a blood donor program in every barangay of the municipality.

The municipal ordinance no.2010-36 which was sent to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan for deliberation and approval by its members was prompted by many instances wherein blood donors in the area, particularly in time of emergency, were hard to find.

This would particularly happen when admitted patient or patients at the hospital, after the doctor’s examination, needed blood transfusions, but could not get right away due to the non-availability or scarcity of blood supply in the area.

Another reason why Sogod-SB members promulgated the aforesaid ordinance is to inform the people and become aware on the hazardous cause of buying commercial blood without proper screening of its composition by an assigned medical technologist.

On the other hand, SP member Abelardo Almario of District 2 of which Sogod is under his jurisdiction has found no legal obstacle to Sogod’s endorsed ordinance that will hinder for its approval.

With the motion of Almario and seconded by Albert Esclamado, the abovementioned ordinance was unanimously approved and declared “operational in its entirety”.

Still other reasons for the enactment of the approved ordinance are: to promote health, to provide safe, adequate and affordable supply of blood in every barangay, to encourage voluntary blood donations by the cititzenry, and to instill public consciousness on the principle of donating blood.

The second Sogod ordinance no.2010-37 which was also endorsed to SP during its recent weekly session for deliberation and evaluation was also approved.

The said ordinance has required all government and private establishments or agencies, offices of different associations and schools to have a “safety officer/trained first aider”.

This is for the purpose of having persons trained and certified as qualified to administer first aid by the Philippine National Red Cross or by any organization accredited to train on “first aid”.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)

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