NEW AMBULANCE Mayor Arcinue pushes health program in Sual

                                                NEW AMBULANCE

                                                Mayor Arcinue pushes

health program in Sual

SUAL, Pangasinan- Mayor Roberto Arcinue continues to tap other government agencies to push one of his priority programs: delivery of basic health services.

                This effort paid off anew after the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) released last to the municipality of Sual a brand-new ambulance.

                Former Vice Mayor Ramonito Sabido, municipal administrator, said the municipality presently has six vehicles being used for emergency, rescue operations and health-related services.

                He said the vehicles are on stand-by status 24/7 to provide transport to any Sual resident, particularly those needing to be rushed to hospitals or brought home from hospital, or during emergencies.

                Mayor Arcinue said the new ambulance shall be assigned to the Rural Health Unit headed by Dr.  Graciela Ramirez-Aloit, municipal health officer, considering that her office is in the frontline of his administration’s thrust to provide continuous basic health services to the people.

                “We have been conducting medical-dental-surgical missions twice a month and we need every equipment, medicines and professional support that are available,” Arcinue said.

                He said they are fortunate to be able to avail of the support from private entities, notably the San Miguel Foundation which has provided medicines and made available its state-of-the-art  mobile clinic to the town’s medical-dental missions.

                Aside from the twice-a-month medical missions, the municipal government has started the computerization of its health data bank to expedite the provision of needed health services in the barangays, Dr. Aloit said.

                The municipal government also employs at least eight midwives who are working together with the barangay health workers in monitoring the health status of the residents, including those living in far-flung barangays, she said.

                The mayor also envisioned that all of Sual’s 19 barangays shall have each a barangay health and day care centers before this year ends or early next year. He said only three barangays do not have yet health center owing to the unavailability of government site.

                Dr. Aloit said that all these health initiatives of Mayor Arcinue have catapulted the town of Sual to fourth overall standing in the annual search for Best LGU in Health Program Implementation in Pangasinan.                                                                     ###

NEW AMBULANCE: Sual Mayor Roberto Arcinue (right in striped T-shirt) turns over to Dr. Graciela Ramirez-Aloit, municipal health officer, the symbolic key for the new municipal ambulance given to the municipality by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office as part of the mayor’s expanded health program. (Photo/Joven Llamas)