DOH awards 600 wheelchairs in Lanao del Sur

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By Ali Macabalang

The Department of Health has awarded 600 wheelchairs in Lanao del Sur for use by persons with disabilities and elderly residents, officials announced.

For PWDs mobility – A Maranao special child beams as being mounted on a wheelchair awarded him and 199 other persons with disabilities by the Department of Health through Lanao del Sur Gov. Soraya Alonto Adiong (left) during an initial distribution of 200 wheelchairs in Marawi City recently. (Ali G. Macabalang)

Lanao del Sur Rep. Ansaruddin “Hooky” Alonto-Adiong—who worked out the DOH donation—and his mother, Governor Soraya Adiong, would distribute 400 wheelchairs on Tuesday, November 8, to indigents at Amai Pakpak provincial hospital in Marawi City and district hospitals as well as village birthing clinics in the province’s 39 towns, provincial information officer Jennie A. Tamano said.

The mother and son led the initial distribution of 200 wheelchairs for senior citizens and two special children in a symbolic ceremony at the refurbished gym of the provincial capitol complex on November 3.

“It was a virtual moment of euphoria, with recipients and even some officiating officials shed tears of joy,” a female police officer helping secure the gathering said of the ceremony.

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