2.4 kilos of illegal
drugs destroyed
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency burned more than two kilos of illegal drugs, with market value of about P700,000, in Dumaguete City yesterday.

The destruction of 2.4 kilos of dried marijuana leaves and more than 28 grams of shabu was witnessed by representatives from the departments of Health and Justice, the Regional Trial Court, media, the provincial government, police, the Provincial Anti-Illegal Drugs Council and the Food and Drug Administration.

PDEA provincial director Rayford Yap said they have orders to destroy illegal drugs seized in various operations, after the court cases have been finalized, and at the request of the City Prosecutors Office.

TB-DOTS launched in Neg. Or.
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE

The government campaign to minimize, if not eradicate, tuberculosis in adults, was expanded to children, at the launching of the TB-DOTS in partnership with the Silliman University Medical Center Foundation Inc. Monday.

Department of Health regional director, Asuncion Anden, said TB control and management is part of the Millennium Development Goals that the country is targeting to achieve by 2015.

She said the DOH has allotted P29 million for Region 7, with P3.6 million for Negros Oriental, to purchase medicines for the full six-month medication of children diagnosed with TB, and for diagnostic services, like the training of local health workers, both in government and the private sector.

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