BONTOC, Mountain Province (PIA) – Health services in the province gets a boost with the Department of Health providing six Type 1 fully-equipped ambulance vehicles for the province’s health facilities.
Provincial officials led by Governor Bonifacio C. Lacwasan Jr., Congressman Maximo Y. Dalog Jr. represented by Atty. Brent S. Focasan, some municipal mayors and DOH doctors received the ambulances from DOH Cordillera Regional Director Rio L. Magpantay on October 11 in Baguio City.
Recipients are Barlig Rural Health Unit, Bontoc Rural Health Unit, Anastacia-Rafael Sagel Memorial Hospital, Besao District Hospital, Barlig District Hospital, and Paracelis District Hospital.
They are among the lucky 16 RHUs and hospitals in the Cordillera that are recipients of the ambulances under the DOH’s Health Facilities Enhancement Program(HFEP) amounting to P33,682,320.00.
An orientation on basic ambulance operations for the ambulance nurses and drivers was provided by the supplier, One Top Medical System Resources .
In a Facebook post Bontoc LGU Mayor Jerome Tudlong, Jr. expressed his profound gratitude to the DOH-CHD-CAR for the unending support to the municipality.
“On behalf of the people and officialdom of Bontoc, I thank the DOH-CHD-CAR for the provision of a fully-equipped ambulance as the municipality is in need of additional ambulance in order to provide more competent and improved health services to the community,” he said.
LGU-Barlig shared that the provision of new ambulance to their municipality is timely and needed because of the situation their current ambulance is in.
The HFEP is one of the banner programs of the DOH that started during the Aquino Administration for the upgrading of health facilities as well as providing training to health professionals to improve the access of people to quality health care. **JDP/VJLT-PIA CAR
