3-day ICOT Caravan held in Baybay City

By Provincial Media Relations Center
July 21, 2012

TACLOBAN CITY  –  Leyte province’s landmark program, the Inter-Community Operation Tambulig or "ICOT Caravan", a health program that provides free service to communities started by Leyte Gov. Carlos Jericho Petilla, wheeled off again for a three-day health caravan in Baybay City.

The caravan was held in Brgy. Makinhas, Bitanhuan and at the Baybay City Gymnasium in three consecutive dates, serving the more than 90 barangays of the city.

Hundreds of indigents from clustered barangays of Baybay received free consultations and medicines during the medical mission.

Representing the governor during the three-day medical caravan was his younger brother, businessman Dominic Petilla, who led in the distribution of food packs to residents in the various villages together with Baybay City Mayor Carmen Cari.

Among the services provided by the ICOT Caravan are medical, dental, veterinary, Philhealth coverage for the indigents, personal grooming, and other services including the nutritional feeding program.

In addition, the younger Petilla, who is being groomed to run for a gubernatorial post next year, also led in the distribution of vitamins to pupils at the Baybay Central School.

The younger Petilla assured this is one program of the provincial government that he will continue, should he be given the chance to serve the province in the future, just as his parents and his incumbent governor-brother before him.

“Bringing the services direct to the people is one way of bringing the government closer to the people. That has always been the trademark of how our family has served the people of Leyte,” Dominic said.