Friday, July 21, 2006
Metro Cebu Rotarians help poor in Masbate
A total of 4,615 poor residents in Masbate’s third congressional district received free medical services and medicines during the Rotary Club of Metro Cebu’s (RCMC) mission in the town of Pio V. Corpuz, Masbate.
Volunteers conducted surgery on patients with goiter, hernia, myoma, appendectomy, hare lip, cysts, and eye cataract.
They also did pap smear, tooth extractions, consultations and circumcision.
Dr. Wyben Briones, RCMC past president and medical mission chief, said patients came from Pio V. Corpuz and the towns of Kawayan, Uson, Palanas, Dimasalang, Placer, Cataingan and Esperanza.
Briones said the mission was jointly hosted by all the local government units and municipal health units in the district.
He said the mission was conducted upon the invitation of Rep. Lina Lanete.
A team of 150 volunteer surgeons, doctors, ophthalmologists, dentists, nurses and RCMC members joined the mission.
Volunteers
Among the RCMC Rota-rians in the team were Briones, his wife Jacky and daughter Samsam, incoming president Gema Pido, past president Dr. Vic Balbuena, director Dr. Allain Senerpida and spouse, vice president Eddie Barrita, past president Lambert Lim Lam Thai and Rotarian Hector “Jing” Rosillo.
The medical volunteers were from the Philippine College of Surgeons Cebu-Eastern Visayas (CEV) chapter, Philippine Society of Anesthesiologists CEV chap-ter, Philippine Society of General Surgeons, Total Outreach for Community Health of the Cebu Institute of Medicine, Masbate Dental Society, MHAM College of Dentistry of Southwestern University, Sacred Heart Hospital, Cebu Velez General Hospital, Cebu Doctors University Hospital, Perpetual Succor Hospital and the Philippine Coast Guard.
Poorest
The volunteers were transported from Pier 1 in Cebu City straight to Pio V. Corpuz and back to Cebu aboard BRP Pampanga, a modern search and rescue vessel of the Philippine Coast Guard, under the supervision of Capt. Cecil Chen, who is also a Cebuano.
Lanete thanked the mission volunteers for visiting the second poorest province in the Philippines.
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