Medical mission serves 231 patients in Tinoc

by Mhars B. Lihgawon

Tinoc, Ifugao (12 December) — The Provincial Government in coordination with the 54th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army and the Philippine National Police (PNP), conducted a two day dental and medical mission serving 231 people here.

Ms. Marcela Cortez, Provincial Civil Defense Officer said that the dental and medical mission was conducted in two venues to serve more people coming from the far flung barangays.

“The first venue was in barangay Gumhang that served the barangay folks of Binablayan, Wangwang and Tuccucan while the second venue was in Poblacion”, Cortez stated.

On the other hand, the Provincial Police Office (PPO) here urged the different municipalities of the province to train municipal and barangay health workers in acupuncture.

According to the PPO report, acupuncture is an accepted treatment of some ailments of the people in the far flung barangays of the province.

The report further revealed that members of New People’s Army were using medical mission as a frontline to gather people and afterwards conduct meeting with those who availed their service like the acupuncture.

Meanwhile, a symposium on the effects of insurgency and communism was also conducted at Poblacion Tinoc attended by municipal and barangay officials, women’s organization and students.

The PNP said that during the symposium, the people expressed their sentiments and stand of not being in favor of the presence of NPAs in their municipality as they don’t want to feel what they had experienced in the 1980s and 1990s. (PIA Ifugao)