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Dr Agusto Dejos with his crew while performing eye
surgery operation to one of the patients during the
conduct of 2-day Free Cataract Operation dubbed as
Brotherhood Operation Saving Sight (BOSS) at Kuta
Sang-an Station Hospital, 1st Infantry
Division, PA,
Kuta Maj Cesar Sang-an, Pulacan, Labangan, ZDS on
June 23-24, 2013. (Photo by Sgt Jesse Akiatan)
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By JONG
CDION
PAGADIAN CITY – A total of 61 patients were benefited
in a 2-day free eye cataract operation jointly conducted by Army’s Premier (Tabak)
Division in partnership with the Mabuhay Deseret Foundation and Alpha Phi
Omega- Southern Zamboanga Alumni Association (APO-ZOSA ALAS). The said activity
was done at the Tabak headquarters in Kuta Sang-an Station Hospital, Pulacan,
Labangan, Zamboanga del Sur yesterday morning June 23, 2013 until today.
BGen Felicito Virgilio M Trinidad Jr, Acting
Division Commander, thanked the partner agencies during the culmination program
who had made the activity successful by saying; “We find this Project Brotherhood Operation Saving Sight (BOSS) a
rewarding experience knowing that as members of organizations moved by public
service, we were able to contribute in improving each patient’s quality of life
that comes with the restoration of his vision. The activity is a concrete
testimony that “Bayanihan” is very much alive. Let project BOSS be succeeded by
similar activities that intend to extend help to our less fortunate kababayans
in order to sustain our traditional and social responsibility of selfless
dedication to the cause of the service.”
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2nd Lt Nannette Manaeg
while assisting one of the old-
indigent patients after his eye
surgery operation during
the conduct of 2-day Free Cataract
Operation
dubbed as
Brotherhood Operation Saving
Sight (BOSS) at Kuta
Sang-an Station Hospital, 1st Infantry Division, PA, Kuta
Maj Cesar Sang-an, Pulacan, Labangan,
ZDS onJune 23-
24, 2013. (Photo by Sgt Jesse Akiatan |
The project had provided free services to the
soldiers and less fortunate indigents in the area of Western Mindanao who have
sight or visual problem especially cataract and pterygium cases. After two (2)
days of operation, the team had successfully operated 61 indigent patients
mostly belonging to Subanen tribe.
Beforehand, the team had conducted two days
pre-screening operation last May 19 and June 12, 2013 respectively, out of 311 pre-screened
patients coming from the different provinces of Zamboanga Peninsula and the two
provinces of Lanao del Sur and del Norte, Misamis Occidental and its component
cities of the Command area of responsibility, only 64 were qualified to go
through eye surgery operations and subsequently entitled also for free
medicines but only 61 were finally operated.
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Among the selected less fortunate indigents who were
qualified for the free eye surgery operation while
waiting
for their turn during the conduct of 2-day free
cataract
operation dubbed as Brotherhood Operation Saving Sight
(BOSS)at Kuta Sang-an Station Hospital, 1st Infantry
Division, PA, Kuta Maj Cesar Sang-an, Pulacan,
Labangan,
ZDS on Junen 23-24 2013. (Photo by SSgt
Angelito Lacbayo)
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Some of the operated patients wearing their eye protection
gear provided by the Project BOSS had posed for a while
after their post surgery check-up during the conduct
of 2-day
free cataract operation Brotherhood Operation Saving Sight
(BOSS) at Kuta Sang-an Station Hospital, 1st Infantry
Division,
PA, Kuta Maj Cesar Sang-an PA, Kuta Maj Cesar
Sang-an,
Pulacan, Labangan, ZDS on June 23-24, 2013. (Photo by Sgt
Jimmy Lagunda)
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