“Heart on Wheels,” a mobile healthcare concept charity program of the Metro Pacific Health (MPH) Corporation, has officially hit the ground with its first stop in Agoncillo, Batangas on April 21, 2024.
More than 30 multi-specialty doctors, as well as a number of medical staff and volunteers, from five hospitals joined hands to provide residents a range of free medical services that included triage, x-ray, blood extraction and analysis, ultrasound, check-ups and consultations and medicine supply, among others. Three hundred patients composed of pediatrics, adult, the elderly and expectant mothers have benefitted from the whole day event.
Heart on Wheels is a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program of MPH designed to bring quality and timely healthcare services to calamity stricken or underserved communities and patients. It was held in Agoncillo Batangas in response to the recent spate of toxic emissions from Taal Volcano which is just across the town, giving rise to the cases of respiratory ailments and other health concerns, especially among the immune-compromised young and the elderly members of the community.
Pediatric, internal medicine, family medicine, OB-Gyn and ENT-HNS specialists from Calamba Medical Center, Commonwealth Hospital and Medical Center, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Makati Medical Center and De Los Santos Medical Center participated in the activity. Corporate partners namely, Alagang Kapatid Foundation, Megaworld Foundation and 1Filipino Foundation, along with various pharmaceutical companies that provided medicine supply, contributed in making the activity a success.
CSR head Ms. Joyce Nazario said that the medical outreach program, which was soft launched in 2023 through small-scale roadshow free clinics held in Metro Manila, Bohol and Butuan City, will be one of the flagship CSR programs of the MPH Group that will synergize the different community outreach thrust of the 23 hospitals under the network.
Heart on Wheels aims to affirm MPH’s battlecry of being “The Heart of the Filipino Healthcare” and gives flesh to its Corporate DNA of compassion, charity and closing the gap in the disparity of access to quality healthcare and information among the disadvantaged Filipinos.