Maasin City welcomes Catbalogan “Lakbay Aral” delegation

By REBECCA CADAVOS (PIA Southern Leyte)
September 12, 2008

MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte  –  At least twenty delegates from the City of Catbalogan visited Maasin City to learn how the local government officials implement successfully the Healthy City Program, City Mayor Maloney Samaco disclosed over radio station DyDM Thursday here.  The team headed by their City Mayor Coefredo “Tekwa” Uy arrived Wednesday afternoon, September 10.

The City of Maasin consistently won the Healthy City Initiatives throughout Region 8 since the leadership of then City Mayor Damian Mercado, Southern Leyte’s Governor and this year, a nominee for the national level category.

Hon. Samaco said that the visitors from the newly converted city will be toured around particularly to those areas that earn awards from the healthy city initiatives like the Healthy College – Saint Joseph College; Healthy Hotel – Villa Romana Hotel; Healthy Restaurant – Kinamot Sa Abgao, which was a consistent winner; Healthy Barangays from Tagnipa and Ibarra, also a consistent winner and they will also visit Danao – the Maasin City Forest Park at Barangay Matin-ao, among others.

Maasin Team consisting of the Healthy City Technical Working Group chaired by City Planning and Development Officer Engr. Othelo Rich conducted a one-day workshop-seminar to impart the knowledge on how they implement the Healthy City Initiatives successfully to the Catabalogan City delegation.

The enforcement of health ordinances in restaurants, schools, collection and segregation of wastes, impounding of stray dogs, among others, are some of the health ordinances implemented in the city, Mayor Samaco shared.