IF THERE’S ONE bright spot to observe during the fasting month of Ramadan among the mostly Muslim residents of the country’s southern backdoor, it would be the series of construction of new medical facilities and donation of medical equipment that were once nonexistent and inaccessible to the island residents of…
MEDICAL SUPPLIES. The island provinces of Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi receive medical equipment and some PHP3.7 million worth of medicines from the Ministry of Health in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (MOH-BARMM) on Saturday, February 12, 2022. Shown in the photo is one of the three sea ambulances MOH-BARMM distributed to the three provinces. (Photo courtesy of MOH-BARMM) ZAMBOANGA CITY - Six medical facilities in the island provinces of Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi (BaSulTa) provinces have received six units of ambulances and some PHP3.7 million worth of medicines and other equipment from the Ministry of Health in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (MOH-BARMM). The six units of ambulance include three sea ambulances that were given to the rural health units (RHUs) in the island town of Siasi, Sulu; Datu Halun Sakilan Memorial Hospital in coastal Bongao, Tawi-Tawi; and, the district hospital of the island municipality of Languyan, also in Tawi-Taw
Photo: World Surgical Foundation Philippines The World Surgical Foundation Philippines (WSFP) recently conducted free surgical operations that benefitted over 100 patients in Bongao, Tawi-Tawi. A total of 155 patients received "life-changing" surgeries as the WSFP conducted a three-day surgical o
MSSD-BARMM Minister Raissa Jajurie (Photo courtesy of Bangsamoro Information Office - BARMM) COTABATO CITY - The Ministry of Social Services and Development in the Bangsamoro Region in Muslim Mindanao has released more than PHP68 million in medical aid to indigents across the region, a top MSSD-BARMM official reported Thursday. Lawyer Raissa Jajurie, MSSD-BARMM minister, said the total aid of PHP68,894,606, which included the PHP19,967,870 funds released for indigent patients at the Cotabato Regional and Medical Center here, covered a full year starting October 2020. She said the assistance was carried out through the ministry's Bangsamoro Critical Assistance for Indigents in Response to Emergency Situations or B-CARES Program. "The B-CARES Program has so far served 1,507 patients at the CRMC and more than half of them were residents of Cotabato City," Jajurie said in a statement Thursday. She noted that the program covered the indigent patients' hospitalization expen
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