Gov. Sol hosts luncheon meeting with Fred Hollows International
(February 8, 2018)
Australian national JON CRAIL, Director of Programs and Vietnamese Dr. HUYNH TAN PHUC, East Asia Regional Director of the Fred Hollows Foundation International called courtesy to Gov. Sol Matugas, Board Member Constantino ‘Bully’ Navarro IV and then Gov. Francisco Matugas last January 6, 2018.
As the pilot center of the Universal Access to Eye Health care Program, the provincial government hosted a luncheon meeting at the PGO Gazeebo with the foreign specialists and vowed to strengthen the unbreakable and indestructible ties that bind them.
Department of Health (DOH) Regional Dir. Jose Llacuna,Jr., Vice Gov. Arturo Carlos Egay, Jr., and BM Navarro accompanied the entire phalanx of optometrists and ophthalmologists who converged at the Provincial Hospital in Sta. Cruz, Placer for a dialogue about the giant milestones of the Global Foundation in the Philippines, especially in the service of our beloved Surigaonon constituents.
Able members of the Project Management Team were also in full force.
Detailed, explained and spelled out during the comprehensive interchange and extensive dialogue were the innovative breakthroughs and colossal triumphs of the project for the past two years, and what had been accomplished so far as well as the future plans of action to sustain the meaningful and life-changing endeavor.
To top it all, school children from the Mariano Espina memorial Elementary School (MEMCES), consisting mostly of free eyeglasses recipients also met with the Fred Hollows.
It should be noted that the globally-recognized non-profit Australian NGO topped off their mission on eye health, including prevention of blindness and treatment of other eye diseases.
Surigao del Norte is the foundation’s second strategic pilot center in the country since the first beneficiary of the free eye-health care is the province of Tarlac.
Additionally, the Foundation is operating in 22 other countries worldwide.
Mainly focusing on expanding well-established Community Eye Care services through their far-reaching advocacy, the Foundation seeks for a better nationwide assimilation of free eye check-up and treatment for the indigents, elderly and margins of society in the public healthcare system.
As such, the bedrock of the foundation’s success revolved around the deterrence, medication and cure of eye-diseases in the goal of preventing blindness which for practical purposes, countenance sight-restoring cataract surgeries, distribution of free eye-glasses, and community education at schools.
by: John Glenn Platil
Australian national JON CRAIL, Director of Programs and Vietnamese Dr. HUYNH TAN PHUC, East Asia Regional Director of the Fred Hollows Foundation International called courtesy to Gov. Sol Matugas, Board Member Constantino ‘Bully’ Navarro IV and then Gov. Francisco Matugas last January 6, 2018.
As the pilot center of the Universal Access to Eye Health care Program, the provincial government hosted a luncheon meeting at the PGO Gazeebo with the foreign specialists and vowed to strengthen the unbreakable and indestructible ties that bind them.
Department of Health (DOH) Regional Dir. Jose Llacuna,Jr., Vice Gov. Arturo Carlos Egay, Jr., and BM Navarro accompanied the entire phalanx of optometrists and ophthalmologists who converged at the Provincial Hospital in Sta. Cruz, Placer for a dialogue about the giant milestones of the Global Foundation in the Philippines, especially in the service of our beloved Surigaonon constituents.
Able members of the Project Management Team were also in full force.
Detailed, explained and spelled out during the comprehensive interchange and extensive dialogue were the innovative breakthroughs and colossal triumphs of the project for the past two years, and what had been accomplished so far as well as the future plans of action to sustain the meaningful and life-changing endeavor.
To top it all, school children from the Mariano Espina memorial Elementary School (MEMCES), consisting mostly of free eyeglasses recipients also met with the Fred Hollows.
It should be noted that the globally-recognized non-profit Australian NGO topped off their mission on eye health, including prevention of blindness and treatment of other eye diseases.
Surigao del Norte is the foundation’s second strategic pilot center in the country since the first beneficiary of the free eye-health care is the province of Tarlac.
Additionally, the Foundation is operating in 22 other countries worldwide.
Mainly focusing on expanding well-established Community Eye Care services through their far-reaching advocacy, the Foundation seeks for a better nationwide assimilation of free eye check-up and treatment for the indigents, elderly and margins of society in the public healthcare system.
As such, the bedrock of the foundation’s success revolved around the deterrence, medication and cure of eye-diseases in the goal of preventing blindness which for practical purposes, countenance sight-restoring cataract surgeries, distribution of free eye-glasses, and community education at schools.
by: John Glenn Platil
