The total population of 75,468 individuals in Bataraza can avail of the free hospitalization program through joint efforts of the RTNMC, CBNC, and the provincial and municipal governments.
ICF Supt. Raul Levita said that the agricultural produce from the penal farm was cultivated by the PDLs themselves for their own food supply. The excess, or at least half of their harvest, is sold to the Department of Agriculture's (DA) Kadiwa outlet.
ICF Supt. Raul Levita said Wednesday that they are still waiting for the lifting of all quarantine controls in the province before considering the reopening of ICF to the public.
The one-week suspension is to allow the administration to prepare all necessary plans and all preventive measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 inside the penal prison.
“This kind of incident, it is best that it is settled internally, so we have one group and another group within the same organization and that is the BuCor and we don’t want to play it openly na pinag-uusapan sa labas ng organization and there are processes that we are instituting," he said.
Iwahig penal farm spokesperson and corrections technical officer II Levi Evangelista said that the test was facilitated by the environmental sanitation and public health laboratory of the Palawan Provincial Health Office (PHO) on July 12 for personnel and September 3-October 23 for PDLs in Inagawan, Montible, Sta. Lucia and central sub-colony in Iwahig.
Levi Evangelista, information officer and corrections technical officer II of the ICF, confirmed Thursday that Iwahig has no medical officer at the moment, pointing out that they “believe on the positive side” of the reassignment order issued by Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) director general Gerald Bantag against corrections technical senior superintendent Dr. Amador Perez Jr.
