SULTAN SA BARONGIS (SSB), Maguindanao --- Some 3,000
individuals have been beneficiaries of a
medical mission and relief assistance here last November 14 conducted by the
Maguindanao provincial government led by Governor Bai Mariam Sangki
Mangudadatu, which she said is a “way of delivering or giving back the
financial resources to the constituency.”
The medical team and service crew
motored to the municipality along with the mobile hospital/clinic where some
diagnosis or treatments had been administered on the patients.
The outreach activity was initiative by
Mayor Al-Fizzar Allandatu M. Angas, Sr. aimed at bringing the local government
closer to the people through periodic outreach program such as health and
social services.
The availability of the LGU’S mobile hospital has made possible the medical
outreach to many communities in the province.
As
gathered through interface communication, the constituents themselves said “it
was the first time” their locality has received a “bulk of assistance” coming
from the provincial government of Maguindanao and “no less than the Provincial
Governor Bai Mariam Sangki Mangudadatu herself led the distribution.”
The
folks expressed their thankfulness for the assistance given them through the
outreach activity.
Mayor Al-Fizzar Allandatu M. Angas, Sr. also
expressed his thankfulness and gratitude for the medical and relief assistance
extended to their locality, foremost citing the presence or visibility of the
provincial governor in her visit at a time “when most of the people would want
to see and meet her in person.”
“We
are so lucky for the first time the provincial governor visited our community
and led the distribution of food packs and 10 units of wheelchairs for persons
with disability and the conduct of medical assistance to more than 3,000
beneficiaries of this town,” the mayor said.
“These
medical assistance and food packs or relief distribution are a big help in this
community because of the recent
flooding following heavy rains that caused the overflowing of water
coming from nearby municipality of Lambayong and Ala River. Our locality is a
catch basin and a flood-prone area. I am so glad and thankful to our lady
Governor Bai Mariam S. Mangudadatu for visiting us and to know first-hand the
urgent needs and pressing problems of this locality… Rest assured of this
municipality’s full support to the provincial administration’s plans and
programs,” the mayor added.
The
medical services included medical check-up with free medicines and vitamins;
minor surgeries such as cataract operation; eye check-up with free eye glasses;
dental examination and tooth extraction;
and operation tuli ( circumcision).
The
lady governor also provided hearing aids to at least 10 senior citizens with
hearing impairment.
One
of the hearing aid beneficiaries, speaking in behalf of his group, emotionally
said he has been suffering from hearing
impairment for more than 20 years but the lack of financial resources brought
him, and other folks with the same predicament, to such disability.
“And now, because of the kind heartedness of
our lady governor who has provided us
this kind of gadgets, I feel to be a normal person right now. I can now hear
clearly and ready to converse with other people
just because of this hearing aid. And for that, I am so thankful for all the blessings and assistance the lady
governor has imparted to us. Thank you so much ma’am governor, we owe all of
these from you for the senior citizens,” he said in vernacular.
Governor
Mangudadatu, in her message, also thanked the constituents for their expression
of support to her administration as she
emphasized that the expenditures for the medical mission and relief assistance
being imparted and distributed “emanate from you, the citizens, and we are
bringing them back to the people through delivery of services.”
She
told the folks that taxes paid render the purchase of medical equipment and
facilities, the medicines, and other medical health accessories… “All of these
are coming from you, from your taxes. And this time, we are going to return
them to you, through our advocacy: Tulong Malasakit at Pagmamahal Handog mula
sa Lalawigan ng Maguindanao.”
“But
we will not end with this advocacy because this is only a temporary solution to
your problem. We will find long-lasting solution(s) on how to lessen the
perennial problems that cause poverty,” she said.
She
said the provincial government engineers will find means to address the problem
of flooding, pointing on the unfinished bridge that connects the municipality
to Lambayong in Sultan Kudarat where many of the commuters are affected most. (Anne Acosta)
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