Celso leads Canelar health center inauguration
Mayor Celso Lobregat is assisted by City Health Officer Rodel Agbulos, Councilors Rudy Lim, Luis Biel III and Gerky Valesco and Canelar barangay chairman Manuel Sabordo and other officials in the ceremonial cutting of the ribbon during the inauguration of P1.4 Canelar Barangay Health Center Friday afternoon. (JOEY BAUTISTA)
The newly constructed Canelar Health Center, which forms part of the city government’s thrust to accelerate delivery of health services, was inaugurated and blessed Friday, March 5.
Spearheaded by Mayor Celso Lobregat, the unveiling of the P1.4 million Canelar Health Center was the second project to be launched March 5. Earlier in the morning of that day, the chief executive also inaugurated the 2-storey 6 classroom building at the Zamboanga City High School-West in line with the city’s continuing support to education.
The Canelar Health Center is located at the back of the Canelar Barangay Hall. It is more spacious and now independent of the Barangay Hall.
A Philhealth accredited health center, the facility is also a lying in clinic and is intended to serve the needs of Canelar and the neighboring barangays of Sto. Nino, San Jose and even Baliwasan and Canelar.
Mayor Lobregat said the city decided to separate the building for the health center and the barangay hall to further improve the delivery of public service.
City Health Officer Dr. Rodel Agbulos said modernizing and upgrading health centers forms part of the initiative to reduce maternal and infant deaths, which are thrusts of the City Health Office.
Present during the inauguration were Councilors Rudy Lim, Luis Biel III, Jaime Cabato, Nonong Guingona and Gerky Valesco, council aspirants Myra Abubakar, Josephine Pareja and Kaiser Olaso, Canelar Barangay officials led by Chairman Manuel Sabordo, Fr. Max Rodriguez, health workers and nursing students from the Western Mindanao State University.
In 2009, the city government constructed and inaugurated the health centers in Guisao, Sta. Maria and Vitali which carries new architecture designs as part of the modernization plan. (Sheila Covarrubias)