TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan, Sept. 13 (PIA) - - - No less than Philippine Charity Sweepstake Office (PCSO) General Manager Royima Garma led the turn over ceremony of new patient transport vehicles and distribution of medicines to seven towns from this province and Kalinga today.
Mayor Ferdinand Trinidad of Iguig, Cagayan and Mayor Darwin Estrañero of Tabuk City, Kalinga personally received the new patient transport vehicles worth P1.7 million each for their towns.
Also, local government units of Aparri, Amulung, Santa Ana, Tuao and Tuguegarao City, all in Cagayan, received their sets of medicines from the PCSO each worth at least P20,000.
In her message, Garma said the provision of assistances like these are sourced out from the funds that the office is generating thru its game such as STL and Lotto.
“We raise funds for charity. We are not a gambling institution,” she said highlighting that all funds are used for charity programs of the Office of the President.
She urged other LGUs such as the Aparri and Amulung to request for new patient transport vehicle to their office and comply with the requirements thereafter.
“I really want government hospital and Rural Health Units (RHUs) to be equipped and be able to sustain their operations especially in this pandemic. Just relate all your requests to health programs and you should be able to justify it,” the general manager added.
Garma also informed LGU representatives present that their assistances are not limited to provision of ambulances and medicines as there are other programs and services their office is offering to include individual access program where one LGU can refer an individual needing financial aid for his or her medication, and institutions partnership where LGU can request for the sustainability of the operations of their centers for abused children, ‘Bahay Kalinga’, home for the rescued street children, among others.
For her part, Iguig Vice Mayor expressed her gratitude to the PCSO for heeding to their request.
“It was in 2010 that Iguig first received an ambulance. Giving priority to the health of our constituents, we requested another one on August 12 and exactly one month after our request, the patient transport vehicle was turned over to Mayor Ferdinand today,” Vice Mayor Judith said.
The provision of the new ambulance, according to Trinidad, would be helpful in the day-to-day operations of their RHU as an average of 60 patients a day is being transported to and from the RHU and at the nearest medical facilities in the province.
Amulung Mayor Elpidio Rendon, on the other hand, is looking forward that the office will also heed to their request for a new patient transport vehicle.
PCSO Cagayan Office Branch Manager Heherson Pambid, for his part, urged the public to visit their office and avail of their services. Their office is located at the grounds of the Cagayan Valley Medical Center (CVMC) in Tuguegarao City.
In April this year, PCSO thru Pambid has handed over P30 million in financial assistance to the CVMC to fund the treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients and for the construction of its testing center which is now open. (MDCT/PIA-2)
Source: Philippines Information Agency (pia.gov.ph)
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