107th Malasakit Center opens at LHRMH in Mt. Province
Philippine Information Agency
08 May 2021, 04:38 GMT+10
MOUNTAIN PROVINCE - Poor and indigent patients in the province and other nearby areas will now be confident to seek hospitalization and treatment with the opening of a Malasakit Center at the Luis Hora Regional Memorial Hospital(LHRMH) in Abatan, Bauko on Friday(May 7).
Senator Lawrence Bong Go, who authored the Malasakit Centers Act of 2019, led the launching ceremony of the LHRMH Malasakit Center via online with Presidential Adviser for the Visayas Sec. Michael Dino and Department of Health Undersecretary Roger Tong-an, a Director Angeline del Mundo of the DOH-Malasakit Program Office and DOH-CAR Regional Director Dr. Ruby Constantino.
BAGUIO CITY, Jan. 23(PIA) The Department of Health is sending about 40 contact tracers to Bontoc, Mountain Province to help in the conduct of enhanced contact tracing following the detection of COVID - 19 UK variant in 12 cases in the capital town.
DOH – Cordillera Regional Director Dr. Ruby Constantino, in a press conference today, said contact tracing teams from CAR, Regions 1, 2 and 3 will leave for Bontoc on Sunday, (Jan. 24) to augment the contact tracers in the municipality in efficiently tracking down those who may have been in close contact with the 12 COVID cases with UK variant.
Each of the teams from the four regional offices has 10 personnel who will be doing contact tracing for two to three days.