AROUND 2,000 residents of Sibulan town in Negros Oriental availed of free medical services offered by the government and private doctors from the Metropolitan Inter-Local Health Zone (MILHZ).
Medicines worth P50,000 were given for free to the patients, said Sibulan information officer Connie Rosales.
The medical mission held last week started at 8 a.m. and ended at noon.
Doctors led by Dr. Felix Sy, chief of hospital at the Provincial Health Office and chief executive officer of MILHZ, went to the six local government units covered by MILHZ to extend free medical services to residents.
MILHZ covered the areas of Sibulan, Bacong, Amlan, San Jose, Valencia and Dumaguete City.
Rosales said Sibulan Mayor Marcela Bartoces allocated P5 million for health services. “This amount is the budget of Sibulan for health programs for the whole year,” she said.
The money will be used for the salary of health workers and midwives in all the 15 barangays of Sibulan, medicines and laboratory services.