Missions shift to noble phase: heart operation
http://www.boholchronicle.com/2011/jul/13/front2.htmlJuly 13, 2011
That life stops when heart stops is a concern bigger than life itself when Bohol’s biggest series of surgical-medical missions shifts to nobler, crucial phase---the open heart operation---starting tomorrow.
The complex group of heart diseases has been the Philippines’ top killer, in fact the first among the leading 10 causes of deaths in the country.
The free heart surgery at the Borja Family Hospital here until July 17 is the major part in the chain of surgical, medical and dental missions in the province that began on July 3.
The first batch of heart patients for operation will be admitted to the hospital today. A mass will be heard before the start of the surgery tomorrow.
Doctors and other medical workers from the US, Manila and Bohol have volunteered in the successive medical missions, already serving over 8,000 individuals in Panglao, Sagbayan, Carmen, Danao and Balilihan.
The four-day heart operation is the crucial phase of the series, which will end in medical missions in Dauis on July 21 and Tagbilaran City on July 22, a life-devoted way to mark exactly Bohol’s founding anniversary.
The chain of missions has the lead sponsorship and participation of the New York-based Home Reach Foundation, Inc. (Home Reach), Philippine Heart Foundation (PHF), Philippine Gift of Life (PGOL), Philippine Heart Center (PHC) and provincial government.
Gov. Edgar Chatto hailed the selflessness of the different groups led by PHF chairman and PHC consultant Dr. Ludgerio Torres, PHC chief surgeon Dr. Arturo Lomibao, and Drs. Ramie Cadag and Pepe Recitas and Toto Jabonillo of Home Reach. Cadag is the US-based chairman of PGOL.
The governor just returned from the 14th Convention of the Confederation of Boholanos in the USA and Canada (CONBUSAC), during which more medical missions in Bohol were arranged for next year.
The on-going series is also supported by the Department of Health (DOH) thru Sec. Enrique Ona and Asec. Elmer Punzalan, PCSO, Sangguniang Panlalawigan thru Acting Gov. Concepcion Lim and health committee chair Board Member Cesar Tomas Lopez, Provincial Administrator Alfonso Damalerio II, Borja Family Hospital thru Dr. Belinda Borja and Dr. Kazan Baluyot who opens a vital heart clinic there, PHO, BMS, Bohol chapters of AMHOP and PNA, LGUs, and HSS Elementary and High School batches under team leader Joseph Alagon.
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