New health satellite office opens for Bonuan barangays
THE satellite unit of the Dagupan City Health Office in Bonuan Gueset is ready to serve the health needs of residents of barangays Bonuan Gueset, Bonuan Boquig and Bonuan Binloc.
The new center, funded by the city government and the Department of Health, will serve as an extension of the main center, providing health services that include free consultations, medicines to be staffed regularly by nurses and doctors.
Mayor Belen T. Fernandez, City Health Officer Dr. Ophelia T. Rivera and Department of Health (DOH) Regional representative Loida Tantiado led the inauguration of the center.
Dental services will be made available at the center through scheduled appointments while laboratory and diagnostic services will still be availed of at the main center.
Mayor Fernandez (3rd from left) is joined by (from left to right) Fr. Ronald Navato, City Health Officer Dr. Rivera, DOH’s Loida Tantiado, Bonuan Gueset kapitan Noel Bumanglag and Bonuan Boquig kapitan Joseph Maramba. (CIO photo by Jojo Tamayo)
The extension will decongest the number of patients at the main center on Herrero-Perez and make health services more accessible to senior citizens, mothers and pregnant women in the barangays, Fernandez said.
“We hope that this new center will encourage the residents to be proactive in looking after their health and wellbeing,” added Fernandez.
Dr. Rivera estimates that the new center will serve is an average of 100 patients per day due to the barangays’ population and hailed its timely opening with the passage of he Universal Health Care Law.
“Dagupan will be one of the first localities to implement this law,” said Rivera.
Rivera added that an infirmary adjacent to the satellite office will soon be built in collaboration with the DOH Regional Office to serve island barangays with the help of a sea ambulance.
Free medical and dental services such as consultation, prenatal check-up, immunization, tooth extraction, urinalysis, blood typing and many more were provided after the simple rites.
Also present during the ceremony were Fr. Ronald Navato, barangay officials of Bonuan Gueset led by Noel Bumanglag, Bonuan Boquig led by Joseph Maramba.
The new satellite office is the second health facility in the city that formally opened this year. (CIO/VDV)
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