Governor Gwendolyn Garcia in her visit to Cordova the other day gave P100,000 each to the town's 13 barangays or a total of P1.3 million and another P1 million for the construction of a lying-in center.
Garcia, together with Vice Governor Gregorio Sanchez, Mayor Arleigh Sitoy, and town officials led the planting of mango seedlings in barangay Day-as for the town's Clean and Green program.
The governor also distributed accident insurance policies to the town's 13 daycare center workers, 126 barangay health workers, 12 barangay captains, 133 barangay councilmen and 130 barangay tanods. She also gave 126 health kits to the town's barangay health workers and six blood pressure apparatus.
Apart from these, she also distributed PhilHealth cards to 243 indigent families in the town. The said cards will expire on January 15, 2007.
Last month, some 5,652 indigent families in the town received free PhilHealth cards after Senator Sergio Osmeña, III donated P1.2 million for the realization of this program.
The health project called "Medicare Para sa Masa" is under the government's Greater Medicare Access program.
Among the benefits of this program are payment of the patient's hospital room, doctor's professional fees, X-ray and other laboratory fees, at a discounted rate.
Only those individuals who are earning P10,000 annually were qualified and or enrolled into the program.
A total of 333 indigent families in Danao City also received free PhilHealth cards.
Garcia, assisted by Mayor Ramon "Nito" Durano III, spearheaded the distribution of the health cards. - Mitchelle P. Calipayan and Jose P. Sollano