5,733 benefit from Fil-Am group's medical mission

• Source:http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2016/03/01/5733-benefit-fil-am-groups-medical-mission-460169
• Thursday, March 3, 2016

By Reynaldo G. Navales

ANGELES CITY -- Some 5,733 residents in Barangay Balibago and other villages here recently received free medical and dental care from volunteer doctors belonging to the United American Pilipino Group of Maryland and Virginia, USA.

The Filipino-American group, in cooperation with the Gawin Ang Tama group of Village Chief Tony Mamac, conducted the two-day medical mission at the barangay hall of Balibago on Feb 26 and 27.

Medicines worth more than P500,000 were distributed for free to the patients, according to Mamac.

“There were 5,733 patients, 74 persons with minor surgery, 345 tooth extractions (dental), 2,000 eyeglasses and 400 sun glasses distributed, 502 pediatrics, 35 pre natal care,” Mamac said.

The barangay chairman said that there are still 500 remaining MMR and DPT vaccines for babies three to nine months old.

Mamac and his constituents thanked the Fil-Am doctors and other volunteers led by Rey Gan, an alumni of Jose Abad Santos High School (Batch 1974).

The village chief also lauded faculty members and nursing students of Holy Angeles University (HAU) for assisting the Filipino American doctors during the activity.