Tacloban City, Leyte - The Eastern Visayas Health Research and Development Consortium (EVHRDC) held its Second Quarter Executive Committee (ExeCom) Meeting along with the Committee Chairs, for the first time in 2018, at The Loft Hotel Function Hall, Marasbaras, Tacloban City last April 17, 2018 where some of the agenda were the approval of the EVHRDC Manual of Operations, the composition of TRB, the Assessment and Evaluation Tools for members and member institutions crafted by SOMEC, and the proposed Cash Award for the Outstanding Health Research & Development Institution.

Present in the meeting were Dr. Minerva Molon – ExeCom Chair, Engr. Edgardo Esperancilla – ExeCom Co-chair, Engr. Ernesto Granada – Consortium Director, Dr. Lucia Dauz – EVHRDC Coordinator, Ms. Resurreccion Enage of NEDA who represented Atty. Bonifacio Uy, and Dr. Filedito Tandinco of UPM-SHS – representing Dr. Salvador Isidro Destura.

Maydolong, Eastern Samar - The Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) – Eastern Samar Chapter spearheaded an Operation Tuli activity and conducted the oath taking of its new set of officers today, 14th of April 2018 at the Municipal Health Office of Maydolong. 

Tacloban City, Leyte - With the continuous aim for excellence, the Eastern Visayas Health Research and Development Consortium (EVHRDC) champions other regions by garnering the most website views as disclosed in the RHRDC Sites Report as of March 2018.

Looking back to the year-end sites report for CY 2017, the EVHRDC website had been one of the six (6) regions who were awarded as the most active websites.

Tacloban City, Leyte - Majority of its member-institutions have attended the 2^nd Quarter meeting of the Research Information Council (RIC) of Eastern Visayas Health Research and Development Consortium (EVHRDC) held on April 6, 2018 at the DOST-8 Conference room, Candahug, Palo, Leyte.