COTABATO CITY (June 11, 2025) — All of the eight individuals in the Bangsamoro region afflicted with Monkeypox had recovered, regional health officials announced on Wednesday, June 11.
Employees of the Ministry of Health-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao are closely observing 37 others suspected of having contracted the viral disease and whose blood samples had been sent to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine for examination to determine if they are indeed sick of monkeypox.
The MOH-BARMM had provided each of the eight monkeypox patients, four of them in Cotabato City and the rest in different towns in Maguindanao del Norte province, with food rations, vitamin supplements and other essential supplies while in isolation, according to local executives.
BARMM’s health minister, the physician-ophthalmologist Kadil Sinolinding, Jr., told reporters in Cotabato City on Wednesday that they are to intensify their information campaign on prevention of monkeypox.
Reporters of radio stations in Cotabato City and editors of regional weekly newspapers had assured to help the MOH-BARMM educate Central Mindanao residents on how to avoid getting infected with monkeypox.
The MOH-BARMM, the office of Bangsamoro Chief Minister Abdulrauf Macacua, and the region’s transportation and communications minister Paisalin Tago, also also together overseeing the regional government’s anti-monkeypox measures being implemented airports and seaports in the autonomous region.
Photo show employees the Bangsamoro health ministry out in a village to check the condition of a recuperating monkeypox patient. (JFU, June 11, 2025)