FRESH from her brief trip to the United States, Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez rushed to the North Central Elementary School in Bonuan last Monday to preside over a five-day, medical and dental mission she organized for thousands of indigents in Dagupan.

The project, supported by the University of Sto. Tomas Medical Missions, Inc. and Fourth District Rep. Gina de Venecia, was bankrolled by the City Supermarket, Inc. as a thanksgiving activity for Dagupenos during the company’s 25th anniversary.

With the permission of the North Central Elementary School officials, some classrooms were converted into operating rooms, intensive care units, recovery rooms, and pedia wards for the medical and dental mission.

The mission benefitted more than 3,000 Dagupenos who can ill afford to be treated in private or government hospitals for medical costly surgical operations.

Those treated were children, women and senior citizens who came in batches from different barangays of Dagupan. Most came for free circumcision, pre-natal check-up, pediatric care while the senior citizens were given medical check up and vitamins.

Vice Mayor Fernandez thanked Dr. and Dra. Vivencio Villalflor Jr. of the Dagupan Doctors Villaflor Memorial Hospital, Inc. for fielding their doctors to the medical  mission, the Pangasinan Medical Society, Pangasinan Dental Association Inc., Region 1 Medical Center, Pangasinan Red Cross, Rotary Club of Uptown Dagupan for providing medical teams; Seagull volunteers and the Bonuan Gueset Barangay  tanods who controlled the crowd.

On the third day of the mission, Specialists Group Hospital and Trauma Center doctors arrived to help perform circumcision on boys whose numbers increased by the day.

Fernandez later told the KBP forum that while there are many hospitals in the city, free medical and dental missions are still needed because of the growing number of indigents that need to be served.

She said CSI conducts medical and dental missions regularly but this was the biggest it organized this year.

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Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez checks out the needs of the beneficiaries of the five-day medical-dental mission she sponsored with the support of the University of Sto. Tomas Medical Missions, Inc. on April 23-27 at the North Central Elementary School in Bonuan Gueset.

Vice Mayor Fernandez (seated) talks to the mother of the child with a cleft palate during the CSI-sponsored five-day medical-dental mission last week.

A dentist from the Philippine Dental Association Pangasinan Chapter checks the teeth of a boy during the five-day medical-dental mission.

Vice Mayor Fernandez assists a senior citizen get through a large crowd seeking medical and dental help.

A newly-circumcised boy poses to seemingly brag about having accomplished the ‘rite of passage’ during the five-day medical-dental mission.

Former Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri (middle), Vice Mayor Fernandez (right) and Councilor Maybelyn Fernandez entertain the indigents availing of free medical and dental services.

Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez and former Senator Miguel Zubiri join dentists from the Pangasinan Dental Association Inc., of which Councilor Alfie Fernandez is a member, who offered their services for free.

Vice Mayor Fernandez chats with Jose “Joey” de Venecia III, NBN ZTE deal whistleblower and son of Former Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., during the latter’s visit at the medical-dental mission.

Patients wait for their turn to undergo free major surgery that would have cost them thousands of pesos in a hospital made possible sponsored by Vice Mayor Fernandez with the help of Dagupan Doctors Villaflor Memorial Hospital, Inc, Specialists Group Hospital and Trauma Center, Pangasinan Medical Society, Pangasinan Dental Association Inc., Region 1 Medical Center, Pangasinan Red Cross, Rotary Club of Uptown Dagupan and Seagull volunteers.

Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez puts order to thousands of patients who trooped to her medical/dental mission.

Boys grimace in pain in as they undergo the ritual towards manhood from the hands of two female doctors.

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