Manila, Dec. 14 -- The country's 53rd Malasakit Center at the Maguindanao Provincial Hospital in Datu Hofer, Maguindanao, provides a reprieve to hundreds of indigent patients, a health official said Friday.
Speaking to reporters, Maguindanao Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) chief Dr. Elizabeth Samama said the center serves 60 or more patients daily.
"It's enormous. A big help and relief to our patients," Samama said as she lauded Maguindanao Governor Bai Mariam Sangki-Mangudadatu for her initiative so that Maguindanao would have one Malasakit Center.
Early this year, Sangki-Mangudadatu, then town mayor of Datu Abdullah Sangki, personally asked Special Assistant to the President Christopher Lawrence "Bong" Go, then a senatorial ...