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Can hospitals treat crash victims without ICER? CDRRMO says yes

ILOILO CITY – Hospitals and other capable agencies may respond directly to victims of road crashes and other emergencies, because no standing protocol requires the Iloilo City Emergency Responders (ICER) to reach a patient first, the Iloilo City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) said. Darwin Joemil Papa, chief of

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Jed Mabilog on 2028 run: politics can wait, DILG first

ILOILO CITY – Former Iloilo City Mayor and now Interior Undersecretary for Public Safety Jed Patrick Mabilog has again declined to talk about his possible political plans for the 2028 elections. Mabilog was in Iloilo City on Wednesday, Sept. 9, with Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Juanito Victor

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Negros Power breaks ground on first digital substation at Megaworld

Negros Electric and Power Corporation (NEPC), or Negros Power, broke ground on September 9 for the Upper East Megaworld Substation in Bacolod City, which the company describes as its first digital substation. Bacolod City Mayor Greg Gasataya and the city’s vice mayor attended the morning ceremony alongside representatives of project partner Megaworld. The project will

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A-PAD Philippines mobilizes hundreds in Western Visayas Multi-Sector Disaster Simulation

OTON, ILOILO — Nearly 300 emergency responders, healthcare workers, disaster experts, and volunteers converged in Barangay Pakiad on September 9 to simulate a high-risk chemical hazard and mass-casualty road crash, marking one of Western Visayas’ largest multi-sectoral disaster exercises to date. The drill, dubbed PROJECT MedX: Western Visayas Emergency Medical Simulation Exercise, was spearheaded by

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Safe roads, not excuses

September 11, 2026

We love to blame the driver. It is the easiest way to absolve ourselves of a blood-soaked regional highway system. For decades, whenever a breadwinner died on the asphalt in Panay, we blamed bad discipline. Or a cursed intersection. Or simple bad luck. The newly minted Western Visayas Road Safety Action Plan (WVRSAP) finally strips

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