57th Charter Day accomplishment

Mayor Jane details GUGMA

Cares in health, education

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, July 1, (PIA) –A highly appreciative city mayor buttered her State of the City Address during the 57th Charter Day with thick coats of appreciation and gratitude to the City Hall family, the visionary founding fathers of Tagbilaran, her political patrons, her family and the united support of the people as the year-long leadership its accomplishments and continued priorities.

In her speech before a modest gathering of city hall officials and employees as well as provincial officials and guests, City Mayor Jane C Yap presented her Health and Education report card on her campaign promise of Serbisyong Gugma Para sa Tanan, a year after formally steering the city for a year.

Sharing her dream of making Tagbilaran the hub for womb-to-tomb services, because from birth and at every stage of life, it is the duty of a responsible and caring city government to ensure the well-being, development, and quality of life of every resident, she began detailing the city’s services on pre natal care reaching out to daily average of 3.2 pregnant women, giving them education, counseling and vitamins supplementation, birthing facilities operation and about the same post partum visits including vitamins supplementation to birthing mothers.

For its service to the kids, the City recorded 1,217 full kid immunization, provided vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella and oral polio to 7,078 children aged 0-59 months and served an average of 3.8 kids given flu vaccines daily.

In bringing health services to where they city residents are, the city’s Balay-to-balay personal health check-up is now supplemented by Tagbilaran City Mobile Clinic with X-Ray, Ultrasound, Laboratory, and ECG capabilities in what Yap calls as convenient doorstep access to essential health services.

In less than a year too, the city broke ground for the Tagbilaran City Super Mega Health Center; a 3 story one-stop-shop health facility with various health care services and facilities as xray, ultra sound, ECG, 2D ECHO and CT scan, under one roof. The facility would also be boasting of the first government owned and operated physiochemical laboratory in Bohol, she said.

Upcoming is also the construction of the Tagbilaran City Dialysis Center which will initial operate with 10 dialysis machines.

Seeing this, the city earned the top performing LGU citation for increased health budget allocation and full utilization, the John Snow Award for outstanding performance in Disease surveillance and response; the platinum award in the national voluntary blood services and the top performing LGUs in the COVID-19 vaccination for the general population and senior citizen categories, from the Department of Health.

As for education, which obviously is next to public health provision, the city prides itself for its free education, which might be like anywhere else, but their air-conditioned day care centers, hired trained and qualified early childhood development teachers, the mission to provide exceptional quality education services is served.

For its off-center barangays, the city bought educational toys and distributed learning materials.

And through the City’s Special Education Fund, they now have hired city paid teachers and non teaching personnel for public elementary and secondary schools, the school bills for utilities and even posted a security personnel utilizing about P40M for this.

The city also provided living allowances for all public school teachers in Tagbilaran City.

As id such were not enough, in a year, the City has completed the construction of the multi purpose covered courts in Cabawan, Dao and San Isidro Elementary School, and finished the repair of the Dr. Cecilio Putong National High School Gym and the perimeter fence of Manga Elementary School.

And because schools can also get interrupted power, Tagbilaran upgraded the power transformers at Manga National High School and San Isidro Elementary School,a nd put up the powerhouse and ground leveling projects at Tagbilaran City Science High School, all costing the city P21 M in infrastructure projects from the Special Education fund.

With the Department of Education, recently, the city has 24 newly completed classrooms at the Tagbilaran City Central Elementary School and a soon-to-be completed 4-Story building with 32 classrooms for the Senior High School students of Dr. Cecilio Putong National High School, which would be located in Barangay Cabawan.

More and more classrooms are also set for Tagbilaran City Science High School and Tagbilaran City Central Elementary School.

For the senior high schools, the City government procured P8 million worth of senior high school equipment.

For college, the youngest and first lady City Mayor delightfully reported that Tagbilaran has extended P5.4 M worth of college scholarships to 853 students, as she shared her joy witnessing the graduation of 29 scholarship recipients, 7 of them graduating with Latin honors.

We are very proud that our very own Tagbilaran City College has finally produced its first batch of graduates, she announced amidst the thunderous applause of the audience.

Degrees in Bachelor of Science in Tourism Management, Bachelor of Science in Office Administration, and Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship were awarded to 453 Tagbilaran City College, and as a certified UNIFAST, all TCC students need not pay for tuition and miscellaneous fees.

She also announced the completion of the 4 story building and basement of the Tagbilaran City College, and built in it a modern learning environment, by putting up an additional 2,000 books, e-books, journals and other learning resources, making student free access to the digital library on a 24/7.

Together, let us continue to invest in education, recognizing its profound impact on the lives of our children and the progress of our city, the mayor who is clad in a gold Filipina dress, called. (RAHC/PIA_7/Bohol)

SERBISYONG WOMB TO TOMB. 57TH Charter Anniversary mayor Jane C. Yap, the youngest and the first woman mayor or Tagbilaran City thanked the visionary founding fathers of Tagbilaran, local officials and the city residents for supporting her in hers honeymoon year at the City Hall. Why is she doing this? That is because she has two daughters, Tagbilaranons who would benefit also if the city elevates its good governance. (PIAbohol)