Senator Christopher “Bong” Go’s staff recently held a relief activity for fire victims from various barangays in Iloilo City.
The team mounted the distribution effort at the Baluarte Elementary School covered court, where grocery packs, snacks, vitamins and masks were handed to 300 beneficiaries from the barangays of San Juan and West Habog-Habog of Molo District.
Meanwhile, the Department of Social Welfare and Development provided financial assistance to each affected household.
Go encouraged those with health concerns to visit any of the two Malasakit Centers in Iloilo City located at Western Visayas Medical Center and West Visayas State University Medical Center, where they may conveniently access medical assistance programs by the government.
The senator initiated the Malasakit Centers program in 2018 after he personally witnessed the struggles of Filipinos in getting the medical services they need.
The program was then institutionalized under the Malasakit Centers Act of 2019 which mandates all Department of Health-run hospitals, plus the Philippine General Hospital in Manila City, to establish their own centers to help particularly poor and indigent patients with their hospital expenses.
Go is the principal author and sponsor of said law. To date, there are 154 Malasakit Centers that have assisted millions of Filipinos nationwide.