H. Special Health Programs

This had put in place during 1999 with free blood typing for a total of 896 and free screening tests for diabetes and 76 others.

On the whole, the health of the people in the province had improved remarkably with improved medical services now made available to people even in far-flung barangays.

Social Welfare Services:

The Social Welfare &Development Office sought to carry out its mandate to develop, adopt, facilitate and perform it's functions thru its programs and various services and to continuously upgrade the quality of services. PSWDO personnel had to attend several trainings which include community welfare structure development, disaster preparedness and management , strategic planning and similar others which were mostly held at the regional office in Tuguegarao, Cagayan.

Several consultative meetings were also conducted nationwide by DSWD,LUG in various workshops with the administration's social reform agenda lead agencies, CIDDS evaluations, community assessment and community-based poverty mapping and in providing pre-marriage counselling to over fifty (50) couples.

One vital role of the PSDWDO is extending a social welfare services to the underprivileged and about 30 impoverished families were given assistance in the AICS program, disaster relief funds from the provincial government, and DSWD regional office. Three (3) mentally disturbed individuals were also given especial assistance, referred to the DSWD and these were eventually referred to the national center for mental health for proper medical attention.

The PSWD also indorsed a total of 32 projects to the DSWD regional office for funding consideration.


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