Calbayog health team
treks for three hours to reach rural barangays
By PIA
Samar
August
21, 2010
CATBALOGAN CITY –
Scores of health workers from the city of
Calbayog
trekked some three hours to reach a frontier barangay for a very noble
mission – that of providing health care services to their rural
brothers.
On Saturday,
August 14, 2010,
a Medical Mission in Barangay Tanval was held benefiting hundreds of
barangay folks. The City Health Office acted to the measles cases in
the Barangay.
The medical team
treated some 10 active measles cases, 15 children were given
vaccination while another 40 rural folks were afforded medical care.
Barangay Tanval is
located in the so called Seven Hills Area. To get there, the medical
team boarded the CHO service vehicle until Barangay Tagungtong, an
area some 19 kilometers from Calbayog City proper. Beyond, the team
trekked for three hours to reach Barangay Tanval.
The Tanval medical
team was composed of Dr. Genaly Romano, Dr. Zandro Daguman, Anna Liza
Gomez, Jessica Jao, Grace Campos, Sandra Candidato, Vivian Jumagdao,
Roberto Bracamonte, Felipe Ignacio, Ramil Catalan, Leo Cabanatan,
Joseph Von Catorce, Ito Lunas and Eunice Paulino.
On the same day,
another remote barangay, Migara also received a Medical Mission led by
City Health Officer Dr. Sylvia De Guzman with Dr. Christopher Corsiga
and Dr. Letecia Aguilar.
For health workers
in the countryside, riding in short distances and walking in long ones
are the standard form of getting there to offer health services to the
rural folks. (with Ron Ricafort)
