BAHRMPI brings medical-dental

Mission to Tubigon isle residents

TUBIGON, Bohol Sept 12 (PIA)—They expected only some 250 island residents, but ultimately served nearly twice as Bohol Association of Human Resource Management Practitioners Incorporated (BAHRMPI), lugged a medical and dental mission team to Tubigon Cultural Center where island residents were waiting to get their free services.

By noontime, the medical mission served over 200 island residents, of the over 400 beneficiaries who availed of either dental, medical and received relief packs.

And not only did they get free medical consultations and dental check-ups, the beneficiaries also got free medicines based on their after check-up prescriptions, food packs and goodies pledged by local government units from where human resource and management officers came from, shared Rogelio Rosco, Tubigon Human Resource and Management Officer IV.

In celebration of the Civil Service Month, our group decided to be in solidarity with Civil Service Commission VII, and picked on the island barangays of Tubigon, Rosco shared.

“As previously agreed, our members from the town also brought in goodies they pooled from their offices to hand out to our beneficiaries, and these were a huge help,” he volunteered the information.

“We asked barangay chairmen of island barangays of Ubay, Batasan, Mocaboc, Panggapasan and Bagongbanua to facilitate and send into the mainland 50 residents from each of their areas, for the mission, but as soon as people in the mainland saw that medical mission group, the simply fell in line, and we have to serve them too,” he added.

Nearly 20 members of the BAHRMPI came also bringing in packed goods from their municipalities to complete the pool prepared by the organization.

Aside from severely threatened by rising tides brought by climate change, communities in Tubigon island barangays have to adapt to living with sea water sometimes getting into their living rooms, breaching into the island classrooms and flooding community gathering areas.

Beyond that, medical services for island barangays are few and far in between, noting that the Rural Health Unit is in the mainland, and is far more accessible to the residents of the upland barangays.

In September, when the southwest monsoon batters these wave swept islands, access to fishing areas can be limiting that residents sometimes had to risk crossing to the mainland to seek food supplies.

While the BAHRMPI, in partnership with Governor Erico Aristotle Aumentado’s Medical Outreach Program, brought in an augmentation of 6 doctors from the Provincial health Office to complement Tubigon RHU’s two doctors.

Beneficiaries also came home from the mission bringing packets of multi vitamins and food supplements.

“Mi-anghi ‘ko, alang sa medical check-up, wala ko magdahum nga human sa libre nga check-up, may libre diay usab nga tambal segun sa gitunol nga resita. Unya, abi nako og mao na kadto, naa pa diay kami nabitbit nga bugas, pagkaon ug suplay sa balay,”a senior citizen beneficiary from Bagongbanua shared. (RAHC/PIA-7/Bohol)

UNDERPRIVILEGED. Bohol HRM practitioners joined CSC 7 in the medical relief for the underprivileged fisherfolk of Tubigon island barangays, to show their support and solidarity with the civil service commission which is commemorating the CSC month. (PIABohol)

FULL FORCE. BAHRMPI showed its full support to the medical dental and relief operations for Tubigon island residents in solidarity with the CSC Month. (PIABohol)