Homeowners volunteer in DMCI’s Kaakbay medical mission

MANILA, Philippines - Homeowners of DMCI Homes communities are supporting the property developer’s outreach program for the poor with doctor-residents volunteering in the DMCI Homes Kaakbay medical mission in Pasig City recently.

Doctors who live in East Ortigas Mansion and East Raya Gardens, both mid-rise residential communities in Pasig, and Cypress Towers, a high-rise residential community in Taguig, all built by DMCI Homes, joined company employees and health workers and volunteers of Barangay Maybunga in providing free consultation and medicine to some 200 children and adults from poor families of the village.

 â€œWe are happy because the kind of families and professionals living in DMCI Homes communities helped us organize and conduct the medical mission,” said DMCI Homes senior vice president and chief finance officer Ramil Lombos, who attended the recently concluded day-long medical mission at the Maybunga covered court.

Lombos said DMCI Homes officials visited DMCI Homes communities to tell residents about DMCI Homes Kaakbay and asked them if they can join the company’s corporate social responsibility program focused on promoting health, education, environment protection and conservation, social welfare, and community development of poor neighbors and barangay.

Among the homeowners who performed medical screening of Maybunga residents with diabetes and hypertension were Dr. Francisco  San Diego Jr., who has a second house at the East Ortigas Mansion along Ortigas Avenue Extension, Dr. Sheree Emata, a resident of Cypress Towers, and Dr. Ma. Luisa Lopez and Dr. Ninofar P. Royo, both residents of East Raya Gardens along Mercedes Avenue. All of them regularly serve in private and government medical missions.

Maybunga chairman Mario Concepcion Jr. was very grateful and thankful to the medical mission sponsored by DMCI Homes Kaakbay.

DMCI Homes Kaakbay also provided medical supplies for the patient screening and medicines such as antibiotics, decongestant, pain relievers and vitamins. The company also provided meals.

Pascual Lab sponsored some of the medicines and ICare Insular Health Care sent Dr. Merriam Verntenilla as a doctor volunteer.