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Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Officials appeal for recovery of missing medicines
CITY Health Officer Dr. Rodel Agbulos issued an appeal Tuesday to residents of Barangay Buenavista in Curuan district to help recover the missing medicines that got lost from the ill-fated service vehicle of the Zamboanga del Sur provincial Health Office.
Hundreds of boxes of medicines were loaded in the vehicle that fell into a deep ravine after a speeding huge delivery truck of a softdrinks plant here struck it last September 29.
Agbulos urged those who happen to be in the possession of the boxes, containing the assorted medicines worth about a million pesos, to return them to the Quiniput Emergency Hospital near the village of Buenavista where the tragic accident happened.
Meanwhile, City Councilor Milabel Velasquez, chairman of the council committee of health, also issued a similar appeal to the residents of Buenavista to help recover the missing medicines intended for the sick in the Province of Zamboanga del Sur.
"We appeal to them, that they cannot consume all the medicines and besides they can not just take them without the doctor's prescription. Please return them before they will expire," Velasquez issued her appeal on the radio Tuesday morning.
The van that was ferrying the 100 boxes of medicines figured in a tragic mishap that killed the supply officer of the Pagadian City Health Office identified as Beatriz Daung.
Her two other companions were believed badly injured in the mishap and were brought to the Western Mindanao Medical Center here in the city.(Jun Feliciano)
(October 6, 2004 issue)
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