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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Friday, June 2, 2017
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BACOLOD City – The city government was asked to hold continuing medical and dental checkups, in coordination with the Department of Education, among public elementary school pupils.
Due to poverty, many parents can barely afford to provide medicines to the pupils, many of whom suffer from medical and dental conditions, the Sangguniang Panlungsod said in a resolution authored by Councilor Ricardo Tan.
Thousands of elementary pupils are going back to school this June, stated the resolution addressed to Mayor Evelio Leonardia.
City hall and the City Health Office (CHO) have the “obligation” to make sure the medical and dental conditions of elementary pupils are “properly attended to and given corresponding remedies” as early as the opening of classes, the council said.
The city council also asked the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration and the CHO to hold an information campaign on the health care benefits that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) repatriated from Saudi Arabia are entitled to.
OFWs repatriated from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are entitled to health benefits from the national government, the Department of Health has announced, the council said in another Tan-penned resolution.
Health secretary Paulyn Jean Ubial said the department may provide financial assistance to Saudi OFWs who availed themselves of the 890-day amnesty program offered to illegally staying migrant workers, said the council.
Other available forms of assistance include the free use of health facilities and access to medical, surgical and dental services./PN
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