A computer system, that would sort and compile data regarding the city’s residents, particularly its poor, will speed up the process of distributing cash benefits granted by the government’s social amelioration program (SAP). | Inquirer_Baguio
But like the rest of the country, Baguio had received complaints regarding the selection of SAP beneficiaries.
“The city has also tapped private schools like the Saint Louis University and the National Institute of Information Technology to augment city personnel and speed up the recording of beneficiary information and come up with a database of the vulnerable families in the city,” the PIO added. During a series of radio interviews on Tuesday , Magalong said most of the 15 COVID-19 cases in the city have recovered and have been discharged, among them a doctor, a health services office employee, and a couple from Manila who motored to Baguio to see their doctor.
Magalong also said transient students who continue to stay in the city are being provided food. He said many opted to remain here because of the complicated process required to travel to their home provinces during the quarantine.The University of the Philippines Baguio has been supplying the needs of 187 of their students, seven of them residing at the campus dormitory, said Raymundo Rovillos, UP Baguio chancellor on Tuesday.
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