BOKOD, Benguet – Benguet Caretaker Congressman and Anti-Crime and Terrorism through Community Involvement and Support (ACT-CIS) Party-list Rep. Eric Go Yap committed to open the operation of a mobile dialysis center in every municipality for the treatment of kidney patients and to lessen their burden of having to travel to the nearest dialysis center in Baguio and Benguet to be given the said treatment.
Yap, who chairs the House Committee on Appropriations, travelled to this municipality to dialogue with senior citizens of Buboc-Bisal, consult with punong barangays and led the inauguration of a part of the Baguio-La Trinidad-Itogon-Sablan-Tuba-Tublay (BLISTT) outer circumferential road, particularly at Sitio Labey, Barangay Ambuclao, here.
The lawmaker announced that by next year, his office will engage the services of a bus that will be converted into a mobile dialysis center and equipped with 5 dialysis machines and personnel to be deployed in every municipality each week for the dialysis treatment of kidney patients coming from the remote villages of the province.
He stated the medical supplies for the operation of the mobile dialysis center will be sourced out from the health department so that kidney patients will be provided with utmost convenience in their regular treatment instead of having to travel to the nearest established dialysis center for them to be given the appropriate treatment and medication.
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Congressman Yap underscored that the mobile dialysis center aims to help ease the burden of kidney patients in accessing dialysis treatment.
According to him, the operation of the mobile dialysis center is part of the initiatives being undertaken by his office to bring basic services to rural areas where people as part of his advocacy on genuine public service that must be delivered to the people with less hustle.
Before joining the inauguration of the newly concreted roadline, Congressman Yap and Mayor Thomas Wales, Jr. visited the senior citizens of Buboc-Bisal barangay where he donated some P100,000 for the improvement of the kitchen of the senior citizens center to allow the seniors to have better bonding activities.
Yap then walked for at least 2 kilometers of descending mountain slopes from where his chopper landed just to reach the road where his service vehicle driven by Mayor Wales ferried him and his entourage to the site where the inauguration of the newly concrete road was conducted and where he was warmly met by public works, municipal and barangay officials and residents living in the area.
He pointed out he wants to go around the remote villages in the province because he wants to have a feel of the situation in the countryside for him to be able to work out with the concerned government agencies and the private sector the appropriate assistance that will be provided them in the future.
Yap urged municipal officials and residents to continue their harmonious working relationship so that concerned agencies and the private sectors will be inspired and motivated to provide the appropriate assistance to the people living in the remote villages of the province.
By Hent
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