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                    [ArticleID] => 644167
                    [Title] => Propagation of dita to boost anti-TB effort
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The mission of Dr. Fernando Melendres to propagate dita, an indigenous tree species, and use its sap to treat pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) may soon be realized.

[DatePublished] => 2011-01-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/3346/agri1thumb.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 195082 [Title] => Who’s the boss at Lung Center? [Summary] => The officer-in-charge designated by the Department of Health (DOH) to temporarily replace dismissed Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP) executive director Dr. Fernando Melendres failed to assume his post yesterday.

Despite bearing a department order signed by DOH Secretary Manuel Dayrit designating him as the OIC of the government specialty hospital, Assistant Secretary Juanito Rubio was turned away by Melendres saying the Malacañang and DOH move to dismiss him was irregular.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 194966 [Title] => Lung Center chief bares DOH anomalies [Summary] => Beleaguered Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP) executive director Dr. Fernando Melendres revealed yesterday the Department of Health (DOH) has failed to turn over more than P43 million in funds allocated for the hospital’s National Volunteer Blood Services Program (NVBSP) for two years.

He said the money had not reached them and was "now missing."

Melendres also said the administering of expired oral polio vaccines (OPVs) to children caused the resurgence of polio in the country a few years back.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1664250 [AuthorName] => Rainier Allan Ronda [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 188312 [Title] => Lung Center probe left hanging? [Summary] => Doctors of the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP) have decried the mysterious and sudden leave of a Presidential Anti-Graft Commission (PAGC) commissioner last week without issuing a decision on their graft and plunder complaint against LCP executive director Dr. Fernando Melendres within his 90-day preventive suspension.
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1664250 [AuthorName] => Rainier Allan Ronda [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 175941 [Title] => Lung Center chief gets 90-day suspension for alleged graft, P150-M plunder [Summary] => Malacañang has suspended for 90 days Dr. Fernando Melendres, executive director of the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP), while he is being investigated by the Presidential Anti-Graft Commission (PAGC) for alleged graft and plunder estimated to be more than P150 million.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 175972 [Title] => Director ng Lung Center, sinuspinde [Summary] => Sinuspinde kahapon ni Pangulong Arroyo ng 90-araw si Dr. Fernando Melendres, bilang executive director ng Lung Center of the Philippines.

Kasabay nito, inatasan din ng Pangulo si Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit na magtalaga muna ng OIC sa pagamutan habang suspendido si Melendres.

Sa administrative order number 39, inatasan ng Pangulo si Presidential Anti-Graft Commission Chairman Danilo Rama na magsagawa ng pormal na imbestigasyon laban kay Melendres kaugnay ng mga anomalyang kinasasangkutan nito.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => PSN Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 156826 [Title] => Lung center director faces graft charges [Summary] => The director of the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP) is in hot water after graft charges were filed against him in the Office of the Ombudsman for alleged anomalous transactions.

Aside from the graft charges, an administrative complaint was also filed against Dr. Fernando Melendres with the Civil Service Commission (CSC).

It was learned that the charges were separately filed with the Ombudsman and the CSC by Guillermo Madlang-awa, LCP Employees Association president and LCP employee Genoveva Hipol.
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1664250 [AuthorName] => Rainier Allan Ronda [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) ) )
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