Published April 5, 2021, 4:54 PM
CEBU CITY – Returning Overseas Filipinos (ROFs) and Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) can get free swab testing at the international arrival area of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA).
Spearheaded by the Department of Health-Central Visayas (DOH Region 7), the project was officially launched last April 1 but the giving of free swab testing and RT-PCR testing to ROFs and returning residents at MCIA started last March 31.
“This move to test upon arrival and for free unburdens the OWWA (Overseas Workers Welfare Administration. It also (keeps them) from spending so much on their hotel stays,” said Loreche.
The DOH Region 7 project is in partnership with the Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas (OPAV) and “Project Balik Buhay.”