Cebu Informer

How would you like showing off your not – so – perfect naked bod to strangers?  I definitely don’t, neither would any of the other girls I was with when I did my first full monty in front of a perfect stranger.  Humiliating? This is an understatement.  Mortified.  That’s exactly how I felt when a [...]

Eighteen policemen undergoing anti-insurgency training were hurt after being hit by lightning in Cebu province Tuesday noon, a police official said. Five of the injured were in serious condition, according to Chief Superintendent Lani-o Nerez, regional director of Central Visayas Police. “Katatapos lang nila kumain ng lunch, pupunta sila sa isang lugar nang kumidlat. Yung [...]

Nobody likes to get operated, at least most of us don’t. But in case you have to get operated in Cebu, then you have a certain impression how such an operation on your body goes and what happens. There are some doctors and nurses around and take good care of you… Do you think so? [...]

Five construction workers died and six others sustained severe head and body injuries when part of the new mall building they were working on collapsed at 1 a.m. Wednesday in Barangay Tisa, Cebu City. The workers, all from the CYC Construction Company, were working on 24 hour shifts to beat the April 30 grand opening [...]

After eating homemade hotcakes on Monday night seven kids had to be rushed to the Cebu City Medical Center. The youngest of the cousins of 3 different families in Barangay Labangon in Cebu City is just 9 years old. Roughly 15 minutes after eating the hotcakes they all started vomiting. One of the fathers then [...]

The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) said yesterday that even with a  rise in dengue cases there is no area hit by a dengue outbreak yet. “We are not conducting an entomological survey, we have not seen the need for one. There is no outbreak,” said Dr. Expedito Medalla, DOH-7′s Health Emergency Management [...]

With more than 100% of Cebu’s poor now enjoying free health insurance coverage, the province exceeded enrollment target of poor families under PhilHealth’s Sponsored Program. As of September this year, local governments in Cebu have subsidized the health insurance premium of 187,884 poor families. This is 20% more than the number of listed poor families [...]

An integrated medication tourism zone is planned in Nasugbu, Batangas, with completion due by November 2012. Local company Global Village Mobile Network Corp (GVMNC) has been approved by the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) as a new ecozone medical tourism enterprise. GVMNC facilities will occupy a 24-hectare portion of the 52-hectare medical tourism park being [...]

HEALTH officials are urging local governments in Cebu to implement their own anti-smoking ordinance to protect their citizens’ health. read more

HEALTH officials are urging local governments in Cebu to implement their own anti-smoking ordinance to protect their citizens’ health.

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MANY believe that marrying a United States citizen is the most straightforward means of obtaining legal permanent residence in the United States.

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I love water. I normally order just that with my meal unless I overdose on lechon or lechon kawali or any uber fatty food which makes me feel like an overstuffed turkey afterwards. This would need a Coke or Iced Tea with my bottled water just to reli…

CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña is running for the south district congressional seat, but his prospective opponent, businessman Jonathan Guardo “cares” for him that much that he wants him not to.

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