COTABATO CITY: A 150-member contingent of physicians, nurses and social workers from the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) launched yesterday a three-day relief mission in the adjoining typhoon-ravaged provinces of Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental.
The relief group, led by ARMM’s acting governor, Mujiv Hataman, and his regional health secretary, Dr Kadil Sinolinding Jr, left Cotabato City on Thursday.
Hataman’s chief of staff, John Magno, said Hataman and Sinolinding also brought with them medicines, such as pain relievers, antibiotics and anti-diarrheal drugs, for distribution to residents dislocated by Typhoon Bopha.
Magno said Sinolinding even brought with them doctors from the Integrated Provincial Health Office in Lanao del Sur and volunteer medical practitioners from different institutions. Magno said Hataman also enlisted the assistance of trauma alleviation experts from the ARMM’s social welfare department.
Magno said the regional relief contingent brought some five tons of relief supplies procured by different line agencies of ARMM and collected from employees of different agencies and support offices under the Office of the Regional Governor.
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