Bangsamoro gets ambulances
COTABATO CITY — Health services in the Bangsamoro region got a boost with the purchase of P217.3 million worth of ambulances, mobile clinics and other vital provisions for hospitals and medical dispensaries in six provinces.
The equipment, channeled through the office of regional Health Minister Kadil Monera Sinolinding, Jr., were bought by members of the 80-seat Parliament of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao using their transitional development impact fund for 2022, 2023 and 2024.
They also allotted funds for medicines and the allowances of village health workers in Maguindanao del Norte, Maguindanao del Sur, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi provinces.
Mr. Sinolinding and BARMM Chief Minister Ahod Balawag Ebrahim led Monday’s ceremonies where 48 land ambulances, two sea ambulances, two van-type mobile clinics and eight special patient transport vehicles were given to local governments, hospitals and health centers. — John Felix M. Unson