Friday, March 15, 2013

Army serves 160 medical patients

From the Philippine News Agency (Mar 15): Army serves 160 medical patients

STA. CRUZ, Placer, Surigao del Norte -- Some 160 patients availed of the government’s free medical mission led by the Philippines Army here in the hinterlands of Surigao on Thursday, an army officers said Friday.

Lt. Stephen G. Basco, spokesperson of the army’s 30th Infantry Battalion based here, said that the army together with local government units held the medical and dental mission in the hinterlands village of Lahi and Gigaguit, all of Surigao del Norte.

He said the medical mission provided tooth extraction to 22 patients, circumcision of 26 patients, and extended medical consultation and treatment to 112 farmers in the area.

Basco said the medical and dental civic program of the army and local government units was a continuing program of the government in a bid to provide free medical and dental assistance to the poor people in depressed areas in the countryside.

The activity aims to promote good health and wellness in the communities where medical and dental services could not be delivered regularly due to distance and accessibility problems, Basco said.

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=507468

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