Doctors symposium tonight

Ambassador of South Africa to the Philippines, Agnes Nyamande-Pitso, will be the special guest of honor during a symposium dinner to be held by the Cebu Institute of Medicine Alumni Association-Negros Occidental Chapter in cooperation with the City of Bacolod, 7 tonight, at the Bacolod City Government Center.

The symposium dinner, with the theme “Malignancy and its telltale signs”, is being held in memory of the late Dr. Andres Gumban.

Dr. Adonis Guancia of the Philippine College of Physicians and Philippine Society of Medical Oncology will be the guest lecturer, while Dr. Thelma Fernandez, dean of the Cebu Institute of Medicine, will give an inspirational talk.

Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonadia will also deliver a message, while Dr. Severo Lacson, president of CIMAA-Negros Occidental Chapter, will give the president’s message.

Dr. Wilson Tulmo will give the welcome remarks, while Dr. Edwin Tomas will introduce the guest lecturer. Marcelina Ace Itchon, Aspen Philippines Inc. president, CEO and chairman of the board, will give the closing remarks.

All CIM and non-CIM and laymen with invitations are urged to attend the affair.*

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DepEd Negros reviews program
on school-based management

The Department of Education Schools Division of Negros Occidental, headed by Supt. Rizalino Tortosa, yesterday completed the four-day extensive review of the school-based management program plans of about 590 elementary and 120 high schools in the province, a press release said.

The activity aims to fast-track the attainment of the Education for All and the Millennium Development Goal of the government.

DepEd 6 regional director Mildred Garay instructed schools division superintendents in Western Visayas to ensure that the particular needs of each city and provincial schools division are immediately and directly addressed, using the SBM program funds and agency savings.

Assistant Schools Division Superintendent and SBM Negros coordinator, Jose Freddie Mocon, said school-based management is the way to go to properly program the learning curve of the school, since school heads are in the best position to know the particular needs of their students.

A reading center has been established to improve literacy and in line with reading recovery program of DepEd, the press release said.

Principals and school heads also revised their SBM plan to include the acquisition of learning activity packages, like English reading kits, to booster the students’ literacy, the press release added.*

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Tutorial for gamefowl
breeders, handlers held

A skills tutorial for gamefowl breeders and handlers was recently conducted in San Enrique, Negros Occidental, led by Ric Sicangco, a known gaffer in the province and neighboring islands, a press release from organizers said.

The tutorial, sponsored by Supremo Gamefowl Feeds, manufactured by Robichem Laboratories of Universal Robina Corporation, is being conducted nationwide to improve the sport and to provide counseling to aficionados on the benefits using high quality products, the press release added.*

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