1,500 indigenous residents of Puerto Princesa benefit from medical mission

PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan, March 1, (PIA) -- More than 1,500 indigenous people of Barangay Simpocan have benefited from the free medical services conducted by Lingkod Timog Foundation and the Western Command (WESCOM) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

The Puerto Princesa City Health Office, barangay health workers and volunteers from non-government organizations such as the Pilipinas Shell Foundation, Inc. and the Jaycees Foundation also helped to organize the medical mission.

This undertaking is part of the AFP’s internal peace and security plan “Bayanihan,” where all stakeholders are participating in winning the peace through hand-in-hand voluntary services.

The basic medical and dental services given to the Tagbanua tribe and residents of the barangay were blood pressure check-up, blood smearing, tooth extraction and circumcision to little boys.

Barangay chairman Boy Macasaet expressed his deepest gratitude for choosing barangay Simpocan because it provided the community residents the services they can barely afford.

During the said activity, the Sixth Civil Relations Group invited the residents to a film viewing, while they wait to be examined by the doctors.

It also aims to emphasize what the AFP is doing right now to help the Filipinos in “winning the peace.” (TBO/OCJ-PIA4B Palawan)

By Orlan C. Jabagat