Hospital on Wheels offers free surgery at DAR

The Department of Agrarian Reform Association of Career Executives (DAR-ACE) is sponsoring free medical and surgical services on October 27, 2023, at the DAR Gymnasium within the DAR Central Office Compound for DAR employees, their relatives, agrarian reform beneficiaries and indigent patients of Barangay VASRA.

The surgical services will be provided by a team of surgeons and nurses from the Hospital on Wheels Community Passion (ComPassion) project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Career Executive Service Board (CESB).

“Appropriate medical and surgical services will provided for patients with cleft lips and palate, cysts, tumors and hernia for a maximum of one hundred (100) patients,” said DAR Undersecretary for Policy, Planning and Research, Luis Meinrado C. Pangulyan.

“We will also be distributing free reading glasses for three hundred (300) persons,” Pangulayan added.

To avoid crowding at the venue, interested parties who wish to avail of the services to be provided are requested to register at the DAR Clinic on the ground floor of the main building. The first one hundred (100) registrants will be included and given a slot for their required medical procedure.