BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Mauricio Domogan continues to support causes for the growing number of dialysis patients in the city by helping facilitate requests for financial assistance from senators and congressman.
The mayor last week distributed fund grants amounting to P5,000 in the form of guarantee letters from the Department of Health through Senator Loren Legarda to a total of 105 patients in the city as facilitated by the mayor’s private secretary Ryan Mang-usan.
The mayor recently endorsed the call to President Rodrigo Duterte, the House of Representatives and the concerned agencies to make dialysis a free treatment to all Filipino patients as initiated by the Baguio Correspondents and Broadcasters Club (BCBC) and dialysis patients in the city.
He said the petition which will also be addressed to the Department of Social Welfare and Development, the Department of Health and the PhilHealth “would lighten the load of patients and their families freeing them from the daily burden of how to cope with the coast of dialysis in order to survive.”
The campaign has drawn over 40,000 signatures and endorsements from the Baguio city council and the various local government units in the provincial, municipal and barangay levels in Benguet.
During the distribution of the guarantee letters last week, the patients thanked the mayor for his intervention saying that through his assistance, they were now spared from the difficulty of submitting and following up their requests for assistance.
“In the past, our requests were often denied but with the mayor’s help, our requests are now being given due course almost all of the time,” one patient said.
Earlier, the mayor also secured similar assistance from Senators Bam Aquino and JV Ejercito while another batch is now being worked out with Senator Sherwin Gatchalian.
Other patients from Baguio may also course their requests through the city mayor’s office by submitting their medical abstract from the Baguio General Hospital and certificate of indigency from their barangays to Ryan Mang-usan at the city mayor’s office. ** Aileen P. Refuerzo
