{"id":21315,"date":"2026-09-12T00:07:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=21315"},"modified":"2026-09-12T00:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:21:42","slug":"ph-embassy-continues-efforts-to-locate-filipino-doctor-missing-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/09\/12\/ph-embassy-continues-efforts-to-locate-filipino-doctor-missing-in-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"PH EMBASSY CONTINUES SEARCH FOR MISSING FILIPINO DOCTOR IN NEPAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE Philippine Embassy in New Delhi, India continues to coordinate closely with Nepalese authorities in the search for Filipino physician Dr. Juan Carlos Manalo, who remains missing following the devastating flash floods near the Nepal-China border last month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Philippine Ambassador to India Josel F. Ignacio said the Embassy and the Philippine Honorary Consulate General in Nepal, headed by Honorary Consul General Suraj Vaidya, are closely monitoring the ongoing search operations and are in direct contact with Nepalese authorities and responders.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWe express our sympathy again to the family of our kababayan, Dr. Manalo, who remains listed as missing in Nepal,\u201d Ignacio said during a press briefing with several members of the Malaca\u00f1an Press Corps at the Philippine Embassy in New Delhi on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSearch and rescue operations for the missing in Nepal continue,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ignacio said the Embassy is also assisting the family of Manalo in complying with the Nepalese government\u2019s request for relatives of missing persons to provide DNA information that could help authorities in the identification process.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWe are in touch with the family, including the call from the Nepalese government for family members of the missing to provide DNA information. So we\u2019re helping facilitate that,\u201d Ignacio said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWe\u2019re ready to lend all support to the family,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Manalo, a 30-year-old physician from Tarlac City, was reportedly traveling with a pilgrimage group when massive flash flood and mudslide hit the Nepal-Tibet border on August 26. His family last communicated with him on August 25, and he has remained unaccounted for, along with thousands of others, since the disaster. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Philippine Embassy in New Delhi, India continues to coordinate closely with Nepalese authorities in the search for Filipino physician Dr. Juan Carlos Manalo, who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/missing-doc.jpg",486,386,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/missing-doc-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/missing-doc-300x238.jpg",300,238,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/missing-doc.jpg",486,386,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/missing-doc.jpg",486,386,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/missing-doc.jpg",486,386,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/missing-doc.jpg",486,386,false],"kreeti-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/missing-doc.jpg",486,386,false],"kreeti-featured":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/missing-doc.jpg",486,386,false],"kreeti-medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/missing-doc.jpg",486,386,false],"kreeti-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/missing-doc-350x350.jpg",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/category\/national\/\" rel=\"category tag\">National<\/a>","tag_info":"National","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21318,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21315\/revisions\/21318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}