3rd Kalusugan Karaban goes to Lingayen
LINGAYEN– The “I Love Pangasinan Kalusugan Karaban” next stop last week was Barangay Namolan to provide health services to the town’s residents.
Gov. Amado Espino III’s wife, Karina Padua-Espino, led the supplemental feeding program and the distribution of dignity kits to expectant mothers, school supplies and slippers to the Namolan Elementary School (NES) pupils and complimentary kits to the elderly to give meaning to the program’s theme: “Pangkalusugang serbisyo na Organisado ng Gobyerno handog sa Inyo.”
The dignity kit – a pail containing a dipper, towel, soap, undergarments and hygienic toiletries – was procured though the auspices of the United Nations Population Fund and Australian Agency International Development.
Provincial Health Officer Anna de Guzman said the All-in-One health service caravan is the governor’s initiative to boost the delivery of health care to all towns.
She added that given the enthusiastic response of residents to the health caravan, the program’s implementation will be accelerated by holding it twice a week instead of once weekly. The first phase of the caravan visited Mabini and Burgos towns.
The caravan’s medical mission includes consultations with doctors from the Integrated Provincial Health Office (PHO) led by De Guzman, the chiefs of hospitals of Manaoag Community Hospital Don Doria and Lingayen District Hospital; dental services through its Dental Health Bus; information for pregnant, lactating and non-family planning user mothers; laboratory diagnostic tests on hemoglobin, blood sugar, blood typing and urinalysis for high-risk pregnant mothers.
PHO’s “Operation Suyod” or the Tuberculosis mopping-up drive with mobile chest X-ray and the Provincial Veterinarian’s Office’s “Libreng Bakuna kontra Rabies” campaign are also implemented and rolls of Olyset or mosquito repelling nets are distributed.
Medicines were also dispensed free-of-charge.
NES Principal Maria Teresa Perez and Namolan Brgy. Captain Faustino Ferrer, Jr., conveyed the residents’ gratitude to the governor and his wife, Karina, for their “heartfelt love for the province.” (With report from PIO)
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