ORMOC CITY-The police here have arrested a man for selling allegedly shabu to a police-poseur buyer outside a cockpit facility located in Barangay Valencia, this city, on Sunday (Feb.10).
Andronico Judilla, 40, was arrested in a buy-bust operation conducted by the elements of the Police Station (PS)2 led by its chief, Inspector Melvin Malate ,and City Drug Enforcement Unit headed by Senior Insp. Franklin Romeo Parangan.
Malate said that a police surveillance on Judilla determined his continued involvement in drug peddling since his surrender in 2016 to Kananga town police prompting them to conduct the operation.
He said that the suspect is a resident of Barangay Montebello, Kananga town but he operates in Valencia, this city.
Judilla was immediately nabbed when the police took hold of a sachet containing suspected shabu in exchange of the P1,000 marked money.
Judilla denied getting involved in drug peddling saying that the confiscated items from his possession during the sting operation does not belong to him.
Aside from the marked money, seized from the suspect were eight sachets of shabu and a P300 cash.
Judilla, who is detained at PS2 detention cell, is facing violation of sections 5 and 11, specifically drug selling and possession, respectively, of Republic Act 9165, known as Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
(ELVIE ROMAN ROA)

In Eastern Samar

TACLOBAN CITY- A hospital staff previously assigned at the Eastern Samar Provincial Hospital (ESPH) expressed her worry that the patients of the said provincial government-maintained health facility may not be getting their correct dietary requirements.
Irma Dolot, who was among the health personnel transferred by Governor Ferdinand Marcelo Picardal to other health centers in the province last month on the ground of ‘exigency of public service,’ disclosed this.
Dolot, who was detailed at the Taft District Hospital, said that while she obeyed the order of Gov. Picardal, she could not help but express her worry on the impact of her transfer.
She claimed that she is the only registered nutritionist-dietitian of the ESPH as the hospital has no full-time nutritionist-dietitian.
Dolot said that there are only five regular employees and four contractual workers who were tasked to handle the nutrition and diet requirements of the hospital’s patients.
“Those running the ESPH dietary kitchen and implementing doctors’ orders on the proper balanced diet do not know how to read the doctors’ prescribed food in the diet charts. They also do not know the transitions of diet,” she said.
“I am afraid that they are serving the same food for all the patients without considering diet requirements or restrictions for each patient. Isn’t this dangerous to the health of patients, not to mention anomalous,” Dolot added.
ESPH is a 100-bed capacity being managed by the provincial government.
Dolot also said that the considering that ESPH is a second- level health facility, it is mandated to have a regular nutritionist-dietitian. (JOEY A. GABIETA)

TACLOBAN CITY- The City Civil Registrar’s Office (CCRO) of the Tacloban city government targets to wed 50 couples for its upcoming ‘Kasalang Bayan’ or mass wedding event on February 28, 2019.
A priority program of Mayor Cristina G. Romualdez, the initiative seeks to legitimize the union of indigent unwed couples, minimize the number of illegitimate children and establish a strong foundation of couple and family life.
Those who would like to avail of the free mass wedding should be living in for at least five years and has children, and needs to submit the following requirements to the CCRO:
– birth certificate of the couple
– baptismal certificate
– residence certificate
– baptismal certificate of children
– certificate of no marriage (CENOMAR)
– 2 witnesses
For more information please visit the CCRO at the Kanhuraw Hill, Tacloban City.
(TACLOBAN CITY INFORMATION OFFICE)