BACOLOD City – The Philippine Army’s 303rd Infantry Brigade (IBde) based in Negros Occidental continues to lend a hand to the government in the continuing battle against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Colonel Inocencio Pasaporte, commander of 303IBde, said that troops in this province are providing augmentation support in security, manpower, and logistics to the Provincial Inter-Agency Task Force.
“Your Army in Negros Occidental will continue its mandate, especially in supporting the efforts of the local government units to contain the spread of COVID-19. We will continue to provide manpower and mobility assets,” Pasaporte said in a statement on May 13.
The 303IBde, whose headquarters is in Mucria town, supervises the 94th, 79th and 62nd Infantry Battalions (IBs) based in the northern and central parts of this province.
On May 12, brigade troops joined the personnel of the 14th Civil Military Operations Battalion, the Philippine National Police, the Philippine Coast Guard, and the Bureau of Fire Protection at the Bacolod-Silay Airport in Barangay Bagtic, Silay City to pick up and to transport the additional personal protective equipment for government hospitals in this province.
In the northern part of Negros Occidental, meanwhile, troops of 79IB based in Sagay City provided security in different barangays during the distribution of the national government’s social amelioration grants to beneficiaries and the social pension for senior citizens.(With a report from PNA/PN)
