MISAMIS ORIENTAL, July 10 (PNA) -– The provincial government is deploying 10 multi-purpose cabs and 25 brand new motorcycles as part of its effort to deliver basic services to the province’s hinterland villages.
Provincial Governor Yevgeny Vincente Emano said on Friday that each of the province’s 23 municipal towns and the province’s component cities of Gingoog and El Salvador would have a motorcycle.
The motorcycles would be in the custody of each of the rural health workers who worked as front liners of the province’s “MisOr CareS” health program, Emano said.
He said that the coordinators of the MisOr CareS used their personal motorcycles in rendering errand to far-flung villages in Misamis Oriental’s 424 villages at their own expense.
“A year after the launching of the MisOr CareS health program, the province has extended about 358,970 patients, thanks to the efforts of the coordinators – now they deserved a new motorcycle to carry on,” Emano said.
He said that the 10 multi-purpose cabs were allocations to each of the 10 municipal town health coordinators under the MisOr CareS program.
“Actually, each of the 25 towns, including the 2 component cities of Gingoog and El Salvador have now an assigned multi-purpose cabs that could be used for emergencies,” Emano said.
According to Emano, the provincial government is hitting the 400,000 numbers of MisOr CareS beneficiaries next year. “We have already attained 80 percent of our target,” he said.
The MisOr CareS is an innovative approach that delivers basic services, particularly free medical assistance, free hospital confinement, free burial services and scholarship grant to poor but deserving sons and daughters of provincial residents, Emano said. (PNA)