LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Benguet’s Lone District Representative Eric Yap assured the deployment of the popular mobile clinic in the various remote villages around the province to ensure the accessibility of basic health services to the residents who had been clamoring for better services from both the national and local governments.
The lawmaker disclosed that the mobile clinic was purchased with the use of his private funds to address the sentiments of people from the rural areas who had been clamoring for accessibility to health services as they could not do so because the health facilities are distant from their communities.
He pointed out that accessibility to health services is the reason why there are existing ambulances, new health centers and now mobile clinics where everyone should be equal, everyone has access as health is a human right and not a privilege.
“As long as the road can reach the site, our mobile clinic will go there to provide basic health services to the residents in our far flung villages,” Yap stressed.
The legislator claimed that this mobile clinic will be equipped with an x-ray machine, ultrasound machine, laboratory services, medicines and can also perform minor surgery if needed so that people can access the health services that will address their condition.
According to him, the deployment of the mobile clinic will be done in close coordination with the provincial government through the provincial health office to ensure that the areas that will be serviced will be prioritized.
Yap also worked out the sustained operation of the mobile ‘tulong’ at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic that allowed people from the far-flung villages to easily access the basic services from the concerned government agencies and local governments when mobility was restricted due to the strict implementation of various community quarantine restrictions.
He stipulated that there should always be accessible and equitable access to health services because people need to remain healthy for them to be productive in providing for the basic needs of their families.
Yap emphasized that there will be more remote villages that will be visited by the mobile clinic because of the rehabilitation, improvement, upgrading, construction and opening of more roads leading to places which were not previously accessible by motor vehicles.
Yap appealed to the residents to be patient in awaiting the schedule of the deployment of the mobile clinic in their respective areas as the visits of the said clinic will be done depending on the urgency of the needs of the people who will be availing of the services.
Yap assured the people of Benguet that his office will continue to find ways on how to further improve the access and delivery of basic services. By Dexter A. See