Free medical and legal services offered to Rizal residents
By Nel Andrade
Free medical and legal consultation services were availed by residents of Rizal Province on Oct. 20 courtesy of the Rizal Provincial government.
Several residents of Rizal Province fills a room at the Rizal Provincial Hospital System (RPHS) to avail of the free medical and legal services offered by the Rizal Provincial Government (Photo from Rizal Provincial Government)
The one-day only free services were offered by the provincial government at the Rizal Provincial Hospital System (RPHS) branches in Binangonan, Morong, Montalban (Rodriguez), Taytay, and Angono.
The office of Governor Nina Ricci Ynares said the RPHS hospitals provided free medical consultation, free Vaginal Inspection with Acetic Acid Test, Pap smear, free laboratory, diagnostic tests including CBC, urinalysis, HIV, and FBS), pneumococcal vaccination for senior citizens and free dental extraction for the Rizal residents.
A resident avails of the free medical services at one of the Rizal Provincial Hospital System in Rizal on Oct. 20 (Photo from Rizal Provincial Government)
Free chest x-ray laboratory service was also offered at Angono, Montalban and Taytay RPHS respectively.
A resident avails of the free dental services at one of the Rizal Provincial Hospital System in Rizal on Oct. 20 (photo from Rizal Provincial Government)
Ric Miranda of the Public Information Office of the Rizal Provincial Government (RPG) told Manila Bulletin that the one-day free services was held at the RPHS hospitals as part of the thanksgiving for the birthday celebration of Gov. Ynares on Oct. 20.
More than 2,000 individuals trooped to the various RPHS hospitals and have benefitted in the free services of the provincial government.
It has been a tradition among the Ynares family memebers to spend their birthday celebration holding medical mission or outreach program.
Experts also gave a lecture on anti-violence against women and their children, and the Safe Spaces Act at the RPHS branches.
Gov. Ynares chose to spend her birthday with kids at the Rehabilitation and Care for Youth Center (Bahay Pag-Asa), a half-way house shelter for children in conflict with the law (CICL), in Tanay, Rizal.
A teenager, a child in-conflict-with the law holds a cake with a lighted candle for Gov. Ynares (Photo from Rizal Provincial Government)
The CICL entertained the governor with songs and dance number as their birthday gift to her.
Rizal Gov. Nina Ynares (first from left, in white shirt) shares a light moment with the kids at the Bahay Pag-Asa in Tanay, Rizal on Oct. 20 (photo from Rizal Provincial Government)