Antique-ELCAC holds 2-day medical mission

From the Philippine News Agency (Dec 10): Antique-ELCAC holds 2-day medical mission (By Annabel Consuelo Petinglay)

ELCAC MEDICAL MISSION. Residents of remote barangays in San Remigio, Antique register for a medical mission at the Sinundulan Elementary School on Thursday (Dec. 9, 2021). More than 1,500 residents of San Remigio and Sibalom towns also availed themselves of free school supplies and rice. (PNA photo by Annabel Consuelo J. Petinglay)

Residents of remote barangays in the municipalities of Sibalom and San Remigio gained from the two-day medical mission of Antique’s Provincial Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF-ELCAC).

The medical mission and information caravan were held at the Sinundulan Elementary School in Barangay Sinundulan, San Remigio, and the Villafont Elementary School in Barangay Villafont, Sibalom on Thursday and Friday, benefitting more than 1,500 residents of the two villages and adjacent areas.

“There were medical and dental services, eye check-up, and distribution of other forms of assistance,” James Rubino, Antique Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) - ELCAC program in-charge, said in an interview.

He said the PSWDO distributed rice to at least 750 indigent beneficiaries while the Department of Labor and Employment gave away school supplies.

San Remigio Mayor Margarito Mission Jr. said residents of Sinundulan and the eight neighboring villages were privileged to have availed of the medical mission.

“The residents of Sinundulan and the other barangays used to go to the town proper to avail of these medical services but today, the different government agencies brought the services closer to them,” he said in an interview Thursday.

Sinundulan, about 12 kilometers away from the town proper, has no Internet signal.

Residents of Sinundulan barangays Bawang, Atabay, Bugo, San Rafael, Trinidad, Bagumbayan, Lumpatan, and Bulan-bulan, and Sibalom’s Villafont, Igpanulong, Bugnay, Maasin, Igsuming, Igdalaquit, Cabladan, and Imparayan went to the medical mission.

President Rodrigo Duterte signed Executive Order 70 in December 2018, creating the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) that employs a whole-of-nation approach to end communism and institute peace-building initiatives.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1162412