Region 6 most-wanted
nabbed in NegOr

A most wanted person of the Police Regional Office 6 was arrested by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group yesterday in La Libertad, Negros Oriental, under the  Philippine National Police’s “Oplan Pagtugis”.

Arrested after more than three months of investigation, backtracking and surveillance, in Sitio Primitiva, Barangay San Jose, in La Libertad, by virtue of an alias warrant of arrest, issued by Executive Judge Henry Trocino, was  Edgar Ngitngit Matulis, 41, of Magallon in Negros Occidental.

TB-DOTS accord inked
BY JUDY F. PARTLOW

The provincial government of Negros Oriental, represented by Gov. Roel Degamo, the Department of Health and local health officials yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding for the implementation of the TB-DOTS, or Tuberculosis Directly Observed Treatment, Short-Course, program.

Hospital implementation of TB-DOTS is considered a milestone in the TB prevention and control program in the province.

The signing of the MOU means that out of the 17 hospitals in the province, 16 will be involved in the hospital TB DOTS implementation.

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