SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — More than 150 residents from remote areas in Morong, Bataan benefited from a medical mission initiated by the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) on the 80th birthday celebration of Chairman Feliciano Salonga on Thursday.
The medical mission, held on Friday at the multipurpose hall of the Bataan Technology Park, Inc. (BTPi) in Sabang, Morong, provided medical check-up, as well as medical supplies and vitamin supplement to a total of 53 indigent families.
In cooperation with a leading pharmaceutical company in the country.
The SBMA also distributed food supplies, bags and slippers for children during the mission with the help of a leading pharmaceutical company in the country.
According to Armina Belleza-Llamas, head of the SBMA Public Relations Department, which spearheaded the project, the beneficiaries came from the remote areas of SitioTimak and Sitio 12 in Morong’s barangay Mabayo, and Sitio Nossil and Sitio Repakpak in barangay Binaritan.
"A lot of residents from these remote areas lacked medical attention because of their remote location. We thought of this project to somehow help fill this gap," Llamas said.
The SBMA mission was also joined by Dr. Solomon Jacalne, head of the SBMA Public Health and Safety Department, and volunteer doctors Eve Lozano-Natividad and Conchita Carvagal.
They were assisted by members of the SBMA medical staff, SBMA forest rangers, and nursing students from the Subic Freeport-based Mondriaan Aura College.
The medical mission was part of a community service program undertaken by the agency on occasion of Salonga’s birthday on Thursday, July 23.
Aside from the medical mission on Friday, the SBMA initiated a tree-planting activity and conducted a seminar on waste management and recycling for families from neighboring communities on Thursday.
The conduct of these community-based activities during Salonga’s birthday, Llamas said, has become an SBMA custom since Salonga assumed the SBMA chairmanship in 2005.
