MALASIQUI—Improvements in health services and the provision of power supply to remote areas are at the top of the priority list of the local government in this town.

Mayor Armando Domantay Sr., now on his third and final term of office, said he aims to finish the upgrading of the municipal hospital and rural health units (RHUs) as well as the electrification of all the sitios in far-flung barangays by 2016.

Domantay revealed that the Department of Health (DOH) has given the town’s Cabatling Hospital P30 million for improvements, of which P20 million was from government’s health facility enhancement program (HFEP) and P10 million from the European Commission (EC) while the municipal hospital’s improvements.

The municipality’s two RHUs will also be expanded with a birthing clinic after it allotted P1.5 million each from DOH and the town’s P3.5 million counterpart.

“We are aiming to decrease the rate of mortality among mothers giving birth,” the mayor said.

ELECTRIFICATION

Domantay reported that at least 9 sitios of the 23 priorities in the 16 remote barangays had been energized since 2012 while the other 14 sitios were activated this year.

These are Nevado in barangay Apaya, Purok 7 (Manggan Dampay), Dusok (Mabulitec), Samput (Bakitiw), Bacundao East Int., Taew (Mabulitec), Bantil (Mabulitec), Inigo (Tobor), Anao (Talospatang), Leet (Nalsian Norte) and Purok 7 (Palapar Sur).

The most recent was Waig in Barangay Gatang where 27 households now have electricity for the first time through the partnership of the National Electrification Administration (NEA) and the local government.—Dada Austria

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