Surgeons performing surgical operations in the course of the Bogo Metropolis leg of Cebu province’s medical and surgical mission on August 9, 2025. | Photograph courtesy of Cebu Provincial Authorities
CEBU CITY. Philippines – The Capitol efficiently performed its first spherical of medical and surgical mission, offering thousands and thousands price of main operations inside a day.
The province on Sunday, August 11, reported conducting at the least 60 surgical operations throughout its medical and surgical caravan held in Cebu Provincial Hospital – Bogo Metropolis in northern Cebu.
The free providers of main surgical procedures price an estimated whole between P9 million and P12 million, the provincial authorities revealed.
Every operation, mentioned Dr. Manuel Villamor, would sometimes price between P150,000 and P200,000 in a non-public hospital, excluding docs’ charges.
“These surgical procedures got solely free,” Villamor mentioned. “For a lot of of those sufferers, that is life-changing.”
The procedures included advanced instances reminiscent of laparoscopic cholecystectomy for gallstones and grownup and pediatric hernia repairs, based on Dr. Henry Chua.
Free medical and surgical mission
The free medical and surgical mission served because the spotlight for this 12 months’s Founding Anniversary of the Provincial Authorities.
The leg in Bogo Metropolis accommodated a complete of 633 sufferers, together with those that sought free providers for minor surgical procedures, common consultations, ophthalmology, and dental.
A minimum of 41 people additionally availed of free screening for the the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Apart from healthcare, the caravan additionally rolled out authorized consultations for individuals disadvantaged of liberties (PDL) within the municipal jails of Bogo Metropolis and Medellin, with the assistance of the Built-in Bar of the Philippines Cebu Chapter (IBP-Cebu).
PDLs acquired free optical and dental providers as properly.
In all, 970 folks benefited from the one-day exercise, the Capitol mentioned.
The free surgical and medical mission will proceed this August at provincial hospitals in Danao Metropolis, Balamban, and Carcar Metropolis as a part of Cebu’s month-long founding anniversary celebrations.
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