Maasin
City, Southern Leyte (16 March)
-- At least 16 Botika ng Barangay operators
here received the capital assisatnce worth
P25,000 of drugs and medicines from the
Department of Health (DOH) during the
People's Government Mobile Action (PGMA)-Serbisyo
Muna Caravan held at Maasin City, Friday,
March 14.
The BnB operators who
were trained earlier last February 2009
by the DOH through its Regional BnB Coordinator
Dr. Catalina Ronda received the award
through DOH Regional Director Dr. Edgardo
Gonzaga.
The 16 health outlets
that received the capital assistance were
from the municipalities of Padre Burgos
and Macrohon, with three operators each
and ten from the City of Maasin, it was
learned during the awarding ceremony at
the city's gyemnasium here.
During the one-day activity
that started in the morning until late
in the afternoon, several key line agencies
led by the Phillippine Amusement and Gaming
Corporation through Hon. Remedios Petilla
joined the "serbisyo" caravan,
one of the priority projects of the Arroyo
administration to alleviate the lives
of the poor and extend services to those
less priviledged.
Other agencies that participated
the PGMA-Serbisyo Muna caravan were the
Department of Social Welfare and Development
(DSWD), Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority (TESDA), Department
of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR),
the Philippine Information Agency (PIA),
Pag-Ibig Fund, Cooperative Development
Authority (CDA), Philhealth, Department
of Agriculture (DA), National Food Authorty
(NFA), the DOH, among others.
The caravan caters medical
and dental services, hair cutting, massage,
distribution of seeds, rice sold for P25
per kilo, job fair for overseas and local
hiring and other services that can be
availed to those agencies that were part
of the event. (PIA-Soleyte)
