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The establishment of Samar Island Medical Center to improve the delivery of healthcare services in the country’s third-largest island will soon be realized with the passage of Republic Act 11703. Samar 1st District Representative Edgar Mary Sarmiento, one of the principal authors, said with this law, patients from the northern part of Samar province do […]
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is upbeat on its plan to transform Samar Island from being a poverty-stricken area into one of the country’s rice granaries through the recently-launched Samar Rice Development Program (SRDP). Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol said government’s target is to “make Samar Island one of the major producers of rice in the […]