A total of 61 indigents benefited free cataract operation

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, 1^st Infantry Division, PA,

Kuta Maj Cesar Sang-an, Pulacan, Labangan, ZDS on

June 23-24, 2013. (Photo by Sgt Jesse Akiatan)

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.”

2^nd 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, 1^st   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.  

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, 1^st Infantry

Division, PA, Kuta Maj Cesar Sang-an, Pulacan, Labangan,

ZDS on Junen 23-24 2013. (Photo by SSgt Angelito Lacbayo)

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, 1^st 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)