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Saturday, October 01, 2005
Hospital, DILG 7 chiefs win service awards
By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez
Sun.Star Staff Reporter
Two regional directors of national line agencies in Central Visayas were recognized as being among the best career executive officers in the country.
Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) 7 Director Roberto Abejero and Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) Chief of Hospital Filomena delos Santos made it to the top three in the career executive service board’s 2005 Search for Outstanding Career Executive Officers Program.
They bested more than 6,000 other career executive officers, whose accomplishments in the last five years were reviewed.
“We are happy. We did not expect to win but we were hopeful,” Abejero said in a phone interview yesterday.
In the presence of their families, Abejero and delos Santos each received a plaque of recognition and P50,000 during the culminating activity of the Civil Service Month, held at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila last Wednesday.
“We just did what is supposed to be done, maybe sometimes, may extra pa,” Abejero said of the awards, which he believes will “put Region 7 in the limelight again.”
The two won based on their exemplary leadership and achievements, which included innovative projects.
These projects must have a national significance and must have resulted in the improvement of the quality of life of their clients and the community.
Abejero, who has been in government service for 30 years, started in the DILG 7 in 1995 and worked on a client-centered service called the Team Approach on Coordinated Tasks (TACT).
According to a DILG 7 press release, the TACT strategy, which he developed in 2002, is a response to the tall order of attaining the department’s vision of becoming “catalysts of excellence in local governance.”
The approach was proven effective not only in improving the quality of services provided to clients, but also in enhancing the performance level of DILG 7’s personnel. The agency had won as best performing regional office.
Abejero said TACT was adopted by the DILG in all its regional offices nationwide.
For her part, delos Santos, 64, a mother of four, was recognized for setting up the Women and Child-Friendly Center or the Pink Center in 1996.
It is a center for wellness that addresses issues of family and domestic violence against women and children.
Known as a dynamic, hardworking and focused manager, delos Santos has been empowering her staff to improve services at VSMMC, which she has served since 1974.
Delos Santos was named chief of hospital in 2003. She finished medicine at the University of Santo Tomas. (CYR)
(October 1, 2005 issue)
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