MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go repeated his promise to make health services more accessible to residents of far-flung areas as he opened on Saturday the country’s 125th Malasakit Center at the Siargao District Hospital in Dapa town on Siargao Island, Surigao del Norte.
The Siargao District Hospital will be upgraded into the Siargao Island Medical Center with the recent enactment of a law that Go sponsored in the Senate last year.
“I made it a point that I will come here at Dapa to open this Malasakit Center for the use of patients, especially those who need help,” Go said in Filipino in his address at the opening.
The new center is the second in the provi…
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