Thursday, April 26, 2012

ARENA-XI “Serbisyo Caravan” to bring surgical mission to DavSur town


By Carina L. Cayon

DAVAO CITY, Apr. 26 (PIA) – Residents of the municipality of Malita in Davao del Sur province will benefit on Friday (April 27) from a surgical mission to be provided in the “Serbisyo Caravan” by the Association of Regional Executives of National Agencies in Davao Region (ARENA-XI).

ARENA-XI will bring the surgical mission to said town as one of the major highlights in the “Serbisyo Caravan,” a one-stop-shop delivery of programs and services by some 47 national government agencies in the region. Dr. Rosario Mosqueda, municipal health officer of Malita, said the surgical operations will include thyroidectomy as a major surgery, and hydrocelectomy as a medium operation.

Mosqueda explained that thyroidectomy is an operation that involves the surgical removal of all or part of the thyroid gland, while hydrocelectomy is a procedure to remove pockets of fluid that develop around a patient’s testicle.

She said about a hundred patients will undergo minor surgeries such as removal of cysts that developed outside the body. The surgical operations will all be carried out in Malita Municipal District Hospital.

As of today, 28 personnel including doctors and nurses from the Davao Regional Hospital (DRH) in Tagum City are in the recipient town to prepare for the actual operations.

ARENA-XI President and Department of Budget and Management Regional Director Achilles Gerard C. Bravo said doctors and nurses from the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) and Department of Health (DOH) will also help in the surgical mission.

Bravo said another major highlight of the “Serbisyo Caravan” in Malita is the distribution of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) pay-outs by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to around 500 Pantawid Pilipino (4Ps) beneficiaries of said municipality.

He said the same services provided by the 47 NGAs in the municipality of Sta. Cruz, also of Davao del Sur on April 20, will also be poured in Malita which is the 5th town recipient of the caravan in the entire region.

The ARENA-XI president cited that the Department of Education will be handing over 150 bags with school supplies to pre-school pupils, while the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) will be giving out 1,000 pencils to kindergarten pupils. DOH will distribute medicines amounting to P25,000. “Serbisyo Caravan is a novel approach to public service,” stated Bravo.

“This is one way of informing our people that the taxes they pay to the government is being used properly, and that services go directly to the people,” he added.

Just like the first three town recipients of the caravan, Sta. Cruz and Malita were chosen because of high incidence of poverty based on the statistics from National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), and with armed conflicts based on the data from the 39th Infantry Battalion.

The previous “Serbisyo Caravans” were conducted last year in Boston and Cateel of Davao Oriental and Nabunturan of Compostela Valley. (PIA-11/Carina L. Cayon)

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