1,000 residents to benefit from medical mission

CEBU, Philippines – The Philippine National Sweepstakes Office will conduct a medical and dental mission in barangay Guadalupe, Cebu City wherein more than 1,000 residents are expected to benefit.

The activity is past of PCSO’s mission to “spread the charity virus throughout the country.” This grassroots campaign covers 20 key cities and municipalities in the country reaching as far as Pagadian City in Zamboanga del Sur.

This charity caravan includes motorcade around the target areas, medical and dental missions in far-flung barangays and mini -concerts in public plazas with the aim of popularizing the various revenues and service programs of PCSO.

The charity caravan kicked-off last March 12 in the northern-tip town of Basco in Batanes, where the PCSO initiated the first leg of its charity caravan for year 2009.

Highlighting the caravan is the launching of the Kaibigan ng PCSO program in the barangay level in order to recruit thousands of volunteers needed to expand the reach of medical and dental missions of the charity agency.

PCSO consultant Imelda Limun for “Kaibigan sa PCSO” program in a press conference said that the program aims to mobilize these volunteers particularly in the national medical mission in September, which attempts to provide simultaneous medical and dental missions in the country’s 42,000 barangays.

All card-carrying volunteers of the Kaibigan ng PCSO are given the opportunity to be awarded with the PCSO Health Card, which puts them on the priority list of those seeking financial and medical assistance from the charity agency. —Mitchelle L. Palaubsanon/WAB (THE FREEMAN)