CSC awards outstanding civil servants in Northern Mindanao

• Source: http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/1521443533756/csc-awards-outstanding-civil-servants-in-northern-mindanao
• Wednesday, September 30, 2015

By Apipa Bagumbaran (APB/PIA-10)

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Sept. 30 (PIA) --- Outstanding public officials and employees in Northern Mindanao were commended during the Parangal at Pasasalamat awarding rites held on September 29, at SM City Cagayan de Oro.

Civil Service Commission (CSC) Regional Director Adams D. Torres said the awardees were recognized for their exemplary public service and noble deeds as civil servants.

CSC gave the Katangi-tanging Kawani (Model Employee) awards to Ms. Edalyn M. Olis, Master Teacher I of Lanao del Norte National Comprehensive High School, and to PSInsp. Maricris Ybanez Mulat, Chief of Police of the Tagoloan Municipal Police.

The Service Delivery Excellence Award (group category), on the other hand, was bestowed to the Science and MAPEH teachers of the Department of Education, Division of Gingoog City.

The PhilHealth Valencia City Local Health Insurance Office was awarded with the Citizen’s Satisfaction Seal of Excellence (CSC-SEA). The CSC-SEA is conferred to government agencies that got an excellent rating in the Anti Red Tape Act Report Card Survey (ARTA-RCS)

Semi-finalists of the 2015 Honor Awards Program were also recognized. . Dr. Amer A. Saber, Chief of the Amai Pakpak Medical Center in Marawi City, and Mr Virgilio M. Fuertes, Senior Science Research Specialist of the Department of Science and Technology Regional Office 10, were awarded with certificates of recognition during the ceremony. Dr, Saber is a semi-finalist for the Presidential Lingkod Bayan Award while Mr. Fuertes is a semi-finalist of the CSC Pag-asa Award.

I am so happy, this is a pride and achievement of the Amai Pakpak Medical Center and the Department of Health (DOH). We have been negatively profiled as Muslims and I hope I can make a difference, said Dr. Saber.

Fuertes said he is grateful to his family for being supportive, his colleagues in the DOST for working hard in the nomination, and the CSC for giving recognition to public servants. We are inspired to do more with this recognition, he said.

I also thanked the Lord for giving me strength and guiding me in my service, Fuertes added.

Other awardees were PInsp. Julie Ann Tabuloc Garlic of the Misamis Occidental Police Provincial Office for being a semi-finalist to the Region 10 Search for Outstanding Public Servants; Legal Services of the DOH-10 headed by Atty. Carlo Limjoco; and Mr. Joel Genita, deceased agent of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-10.

Genita, represented by his wife, Elivie Genita, was awarded commended under the CSC Pamanang Lingkod Bayani.

The Parangal at Pasasalamat awarding rites highlighted the month-long celebration of the 115th Philippine Civil Service Anniversary in Northern Mindanao with the theme “Kayang-kaya Mo, Lingkod Bayani.”