{"id":9717,"date":"2024-11-02T01:58:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T17:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=9717"},"modified":"2024-11-02T01:58:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T17:58:06","slug":"cebu-city-to-give-free-maintenance-medicines-to-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2024\/11\/02\/cebu-city-to-give-free-maintenance-medicines-to-elderly\/","title":{"rendered":"CEBU CITY TO GIVE FREE MAINTENANCE MEDICINES TO ELDERLY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>SENIOR citizens in Cebu City are set to receive &nbsp;free maintenance medicines starting January 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cebu City Mayor <\/strong><strong>Raymond Alvin Garcia made the announcement on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Garcia told elders who attended a barangay assembly in the coastal village of Tinago that there are available funds for the program that will benefit over 90,000 seniors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;That&#8217;s why next year, I promise you that we have put in the budget that next year, January, we will start giving daily maintenance medicine,&#8221; the mayor said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cYou will not buy those medicines anymore,\u201d he vowed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Garcia said the program came when many senior citizens asked about it when he visited various barangays.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>He said the move aims to alleviate the daily need for maintenance medicines among elders in Cebu City.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SENIOR citizens in Cebu City are set to receive &nbsp;free maintenance medicines starting January 2025. Cebu City Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia made the announcement on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9719,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions\/9719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}