Governor Nicart’s achievements in his first 100 days

By GINA DEAN-RAGUDO, Samar News.com
November 7, 2010

BORONGAN, Eastern Samar  –  Governor Conrado B. Nicart, Jr. made his State of the Province Address during the opening of the 45th Founding Anniversary Celebration of Eastern Samar province at the capitol ground on November 4, 2010 before the provincial employees.

Nicart called it his “100th day address” which signified the accomplishments carried out by the new set of officials under his administration, despite the burden of paying all the obligations incurred by the former governor.

He admitted that when he assumed office, there was no fund to be used to facilitate his programs and projects and the fourth quarter budget for fiscal year 2010 was almost squandered.

Working on a limited resources was never been an obstacle to deliver services to his constituents.

One primary target of MDG (Millennium Development Goal) that he pointed out was to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.

Next was on health, by improving and upgrading hospital facilities, providing medicines and increasing manpower; reducing maternal mortality (MMR); and promoting cleanliness and sanitation by launching a contest on cleanest hospital in the lone district of Eastern Samar.

He added that emergency rooms of Oras, Albino Duran (Balanggiga), Taft, and other district hospitals were subject for rehabilitation.

A campaign on anti-rabies was implemented and reducing child mortality rate was intensified.

UNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Health (DOH), Australian-Aid, European Commission and other foreign agencies were gratefully acknowledged by the governor in his speech.

Underscoring on “drugs issue”, Nicart revealed that a total of 113 blocks of high-grade cocaine amounting to P568M were confiscated by local authorities since the inception of their campaign in his 100 days of office.