Hundreds of residents availed of free services offered by the frontline departments of Mandaue City Hall during the city’s seventieth barangayan held on Saturday in barangay Cubacub gymnasium.
Six people were also hired on the spot by the Gaisano Grand Mall in Mandaue out of the 24 positions for cashier, sales assistant, bagger, warehouse man and checker, said the mall’s human resource officer, Jacqueline Pareja.
The barangayan is aimed by Mayor Jonas Cortes in bringing government services closer to the residents.
Hundreds of Mandauehanons trooped to the medical gym and availed of free checkup, medicines and tooth extraction.
Atttending doctors said most of the cases treated were cough and colds, mostly involving children.
Liza Gabatan, 30, a resident of Cubacub, coddling her two-year-old daughter and tagging along her 10-year-old daughter, received assorted bottles of medicine.
“We are very thankful, at least we save money for medication,” she said in Cebuano.
Other services offered were free legal consultation, dog vaccination and castration, demonstration on candle making, free bottles of toilet bowl cleaner and chlorox by the city cooperative office and free haircut, pedicure and manicure by the students of Mandaue City College Technological Department, among others.