DOH upgrades monitoring
The Department of Health (DOH), recently upgraded their “DOH Data Collect (DDC) Dashboards” to give timely information of various metrics like bed capacities and service availability, COVID-19 commodities and supplies, and the vaccine administration program to the local government units and health facilities throughout the country.
This was done with the help of Info Alchemy Corp. and Microsoft.
The new system utilizes Microsoft Power BI, a cloud-based business analytics solution that empowers users to publish and customize interactive reports and analyze and visualize data for deeper insights.
Microsoft and Info Alchemy assisted the DOH in scaling up and implementing the dashboard into a higher availability and higher reliability service level.
Pru Life UK co-funds Chevening scholarship
Pru Life UK co-funds its 4th Filipino scholar with British Embassy Manila, in its 4th year of partnership for the Chevening Scholarship Program.
Chevening is a scholarship and fellowship program under the UK government which aims to develop global leaders and has long been enabling Filipino scholars to study in the UK.
Marielle Bordado, a communications officer at the Philippine Development Foundation (PhilDev), who has been in the development sector for almost 10 years, is the latest Pru Life UK Chevening Scholar.
Bordado will be taking a media, communication, and development course at the London School of Economics and Political Science for one year.
JCI campaign urges Filipinos to exercise their right to vote
Junior Chamber International (JCI) Philippines, the first nationally organized leadership development organization established in Asia, has officially launched its #AmbagKo. Rehistro. Boto. initiative.
The campaign, which primarily targets millennials and Gen Zs, aims to encourage eligible voters to register and vote in the upcoming 2022 national elections. This voters’ education campaign seeks to address the low registration and voter turnout in past elections by educating Filipinos on the importance of registering and voting.
With Filipinos 18 to 35 years old numbering 40 million or 37 percent of the entire electorate eligible to vote in 2022 according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) and Commission on Elections (COMELEC), millennials and Gen Z Filipinos play a key role in shaping the future of the Philippines. The latest COMELEC data show there are 3.48 million voter registration applications filed between January 2020 and May 15, 2021. Of these, 1.5 million are new registrants,still short of the 4 million target by COMELEC.
The #AmbagKo. Rehistro. Boto. hopes to boost these numbers and encourage eligible voters, in particular millennial and Gen Z Filipinos, to step out, register and vote through fun and informative content and activities, including an exciting gamification system.
Riding on the popularity of the term ambag, the #AmbagKo. Rehistro. Boto. campaign sends the message that registering and voting can be the youth’s ambag or contribution to nation-building and a better future for the Philippines. The campaign is also in line with JCI’s 2021 theme of More For Others, a reminder that we can be more while doing little things to create a lasting impact for our country.
Maynilad donates cleaning, hygiene supplies to Las Piñas City
West Zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services Inc. (Maynilad) donated cleaning and hygiene supplies and face masks to 70 public schools within Metro Manila and Cavite province in support of the Brigada Eskwela 2021 program of the Department of Education (DepEd).
Besides the distribution of 1,400 one-gallon bottles of liquid hand soaps and disinfectants, and 800 buckets to various schools, the water company also donated 4,600 washable face masks for the use of the faculty and other school personnel.
This year, Maynilad is also installing 57 modular handwashing stations in health facilities and West Zone schools that serve as COVID-19 vaccination hubs.
Maynilad has been an active partner of DepEd in its yearly Brigada Eskwela program for 12 years now. Through its own ginhaW.A.S.H.(water, sanitation, health) program, Maynilad donates drink-wash stations and refurbishes water and sanitation facilities in schools to promote good health and proper hygiene, benefitting more than 142,000 students in 491 schools since 2008.
Globe maintains ISO standards
Guided by its policies on environmental sustainability, health and safety, and business continuity, Globe Telecom constantly endeavors to implement an ISO-certified Integrated Management System (IMS) to ensure streamlined operations and improved organizational efficiency.
Globe pursued adopting an IMS with the thrust of ISO to standardize the structure of the management systems enabling the sharing of processes across multiple standards. Adopting an IMS enables the company to remain competitive while keeping overhead costs low by reducing duplications and consolidating various management systems.
Globe achieved an enterprise-wide certification of its management systems under the IMS in 2018 and passed its recertification audit this year conducted by British Standards Institution (BSI). Its IMS currently consists of ISO 22301:2019 for Business Continuity Management (BCM), ISO 14001:2015 for Environmental Management, and ISO 4500:20181 for Occupational Health and Safety Management.
The company’s investment in BCM has made sure that employees, processes, and infrastructure are always ready to effectively respond to disasters.
Globe has also set high standards of environmental management and stewardship in order to reduce its impact on natural capital.
MVP Group provides health care essentials to medical frontliners
The MVP Group foundations and hospitals, led by the PLDT-Smart Foundation and the Makati Medical Center Foundation are distributing some 3,500 care bags to frontliners in 36 hospitals and healthcare facilities in the National Capital Region and surrounding cities and towns.
Each care bag contains a pulse oximeter; a box of ascorbic acid vitamin tablets, face mask and face shield.
This initiative is part of the donation drive of First Pacific’s 40th anniversary celebration,and was done with the help of Asian Hospital, Cardinal Santos Hospital, Maynilad,Metro Pacific Investments Foundation and One Meralco Foundation.
Among the beneficiaries of the care bags are the Pasay City General Hospital, Hope Alive Clinic; Dr. Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital; Archdiocese of Manila Healthcare Ministry; Archdiocese of Manila PWD Ministry and Integrated Midwife Association of the Philippines; the Philippine Navy, the Armed Forces of the Philippines Peacekeeping Operation Center in Tarlac, and thePhilippine Air Force _15TH Strike Wing and government hospitals.
Clorox PH joins OVP in providing care kits
Clorox Philippines partnered with the Office of the Vice President of the Philippines in providing cleaning and disinfecting products, as part of its Clorox Safer Today Program.
The company donated around 2,520 Clorox disinfecting wipes and cleaners to the OVP, some of which were included in at least 2,000 Bayanihan e-Konsulta kits last April 19.
VP Leni Robredo’s office will distribute the kits to Bayanihan e-Konsulta patients, both confirmed positive with COVID-19 and those suspected COVID-19 patients, as prescribed by the group’s volunteer doctors and health professionals. Other than the Clorox wipes and cleaners, each kit will also include an oximeter, other medical supplies, and medicines.
#Salamat4G: Spreading love and faith in Pangasinan
The province of Pangasinan has a lot to offer than just its famed Hundred Islands. Pangasinan is a well-loved tourist destination. Thousands flock to the province annually, not only for tourism but also for religious pilgrimage to several historical churches, particularly the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Manaog which houses the 17th-century ivory and silver image of the VIrgin Mary with the Child Jesus.
As the country reels from a global health crisis, Pangasinan has to adapt to the current situation. Parishes have gone digital to live stream eucharistic services to their congregation, but technology also comes with its own challenges.
“Yung live streaming ng misa, nagfe-freeze video, hindi naman pwedeng hihinto kami sa pagmimisa. Sabi ng mga parishioner namin.. hindi nila maisa-puso kasi distracted sila sa problema ng mabagal na koneksyon,” said Rev. Fr. Allan V. Lopez (O.P.), Parish Priest of Our Lady of the Rosary Manaoag.
With the growing dependence on data-heavy technologies, Globe has been upgrading its cell towers in Pangasinan and other nearby provinces for faster and more stable 4G LTE service.
The improvement was immediate. Rev. Fr. Allan exclaimed: “Salamat at dumating din sa aming probinsiya ang 4G na ito. Kahit sa abroad malinaw na kaming mapapanood ng mga deboto. Pwedeng pwede kayong mag comment, mag type ng amen!”
Joel Agustin, Globe Senior Vice President for Program Delivery, Network Technical Group assures the public, “We are bringing connectivity to everyone, especially to areas where a strong, reliable, and accessible internet can spell the difference between surviving and thriving.”
To enjoy these improved services, customers in Pangasinan and other parts of the country who are still using old and slow 3G SIM cards must shift to the 5G-ready 4G LTE SIMs now. Globe assures customers that their mobile numbers will be retained when they switch to the new technology. If quarantine protocols in their respective areas allow, customers can go to the nearest Globe Store to change their SIM cards for FREE.
