The municipal government here acquired a mobile clinic to bring medical services to residents in its 73 villages.
Mayor Alfe Soriano, in an interview on Friday, said the mobile clinic equipped with laboratory, X-ray and ultrasound services will be part of their regular medical mission of visiting one village every Saturday.
“Upon the order of the doctor, the laboratory tests or X-ray or ultrasound will be performed at the clinic free of charge,” he said.
The local government will also fund the mobile clinic’s operational costs.
“This is for the health services to our residents, especially the indigents,” he said adding that beneficiaries will save on transportation costs.
The local government has also renovated its municipal hospital, Soriano said.
It is working on the budget requirement to add more medical workers to be approved as an infirmary hospital with admission, probably by yearend.
“The hospital beds are already there. We just lack the doctors, which is a requirement of the Department of Health. We have to have additional doctors, nurses, midwives and medical technologists,” he said. (PNA)