LINGAYEN – Provincial Liga ng mga Barangay President and Board Member Amado “Pogi” Espino III exhorted members of the Integrated Midwives Association-Pangasinan Chapter to strengthen their organization by intensifying their efforts at providing healthcare services to people in the communities.

Speaking on behalf of Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr.during the midwives’ congress held at the Dagupan Village Hotel in Dagupan City on September 1, BM Espino underscored the importance of healthcare and maternal care, specifically, in the promotion not only of a well-developed community but also of a well-developed nation.
As the young Espino stressed that “health is wealth,” he pointed out that the healthcare program has been one of the most rewarding thrusts of the Espino administration that earned significant achievements for the province.

“We need more efforts and initiatives from organization like yours to further boost the healthcare potentials of our province towards remarkable achievements,” Espino told the midwives, as he congratulated them for the sacrifices they have rendered in the name of public service as frontliners in the grassroots community.

We, in the provincial government, are proud to say that we have effected various developments like the upgrading of hospitals and other hospital facilities and equipment.
We are even more proud to announce that our government hospital, the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital in San Carlos City is now at par with the private hospitals as it now boasts of its modern dialysis center, a CT scan and other modern equipment thus, earning the distinction as a “hospital of choice.”

As this developed, IMAP president Virginia del Castillo from Urdaneta City said the midwives organization now lists over 500 membership provincewide.
Del Castillo expressed pride that as frontliners of public service, they are able to provide  service to the people especially those at the grassroots level.