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Five days of intense rain in the Chiriqui Province left homes and crops submerged, rivers overflowing, bridges washed out and thousands of people affected by natural disaster. Arturo Alvarado, General Director of the National Civil Protection Service, said that 272 houses were underwater and that 1,160 people have been evacuated to the seven available...
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Ministry of Health officials detected a Chilean aid-worker with what appeared to be symptoms of cholera as she transited through Tocumen International Airport from Haiti on her way to Venezuela on Wednesday. Epidemiology  staff transported her to the Infectious Disease Ward of the Santo Tomas Hospital where she is being evaluated by doctors from...
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While making rounds of the Children’s Hospital this week, First Lady Marta Linares de Martinelli spoke of Panama’s hopes to convert the former British Ambassador’s residence into a burn center and skin bank. Built in 1928, the former residence is located on a 48,438 square-foot lot on Balboa Avenue.  The lot belongs to Panama,...
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The Curundu River got a taste of 4,000 liters of bunker C fuel from the National Brewery in Tumba Muerto on Wednesday. The leak occurred during a fuel transfer operation, and the main concern was that the Panama Canal Watershed would be affected. Ocean Pollution Control was called in and set up three retention...
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With new equipment approved, DIMAUD, Panama’s municipal urban and residential waste management department, will begin garbage collection duty at 5:30 a.m. tomorrow. Harmodio Montaner, DIMAUD Director, said that the entity had been working with only 20 compactor trucks, two trucks and a backhoe to confront the mountains of trash in Panama’s capital. “Obviously we...
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