Health is wealth and one must take good care of his body to efficiently and effectively perform various daily tasks. While this pandemic is resulting in a great recession, the country’s already inefficient health care system is failing as well.
Health is wealth and one must take good care of his body to efficiently and effectively perform various daily tasks. While this pandemic is resulting in a great recession, the country’s already inefficient health care system is failing as well.
Reaching out to undeserved communities who have limited access to health care is OPEC Kalilintad Agus and Rural Health Unit (RHU) health officer Babay Papandayan Malawani. The team launched a medical mission at Mable, Malabang, Lanao del Sur where indigent communities were provided with free medical checkups for hypertension and diabetes. They were also given a blood pressure monitor and some medicines while five medical blood-glucose monitoring systems were gifted to RHU.
As one way to promote good health in these communities, OPEC Green Horizon, OPEC Centrum and OPEC Zambasulta-Vinta in cooperation with Philippine Red Cross conducted a bloodletting program that successfully collected 22 units of blood volume with the aid of regional manager Justiniano Reyes and OPEC Green Horizon officers and OPEC Centrum regional manager Peter Aguirre and other OPEC groups. Donors were then rewarded with an accident prone insurance plan worth P30,000 valid for a year plus ML giveaways by OPEC Zambasulta-Vinta.