Mr. & Ms. SPMC crowned
DOCTOR Noe Abraham Paez and Dr. Angelica Mary Joan Labradores, both from the surgery department, were crowned as Mr. and Ms. Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) Centennial during the coronation night on Tuesday, August 8 at Abreeza activity area.
A total of 16 candidates vied for the prestigious title. Each stunned the crowd as they took the stage clad in their stunning Filipiniana terno and barong tagalog.
From 16, the judges picked five pairs who made it to the final round. The criteria for determining the winners were one who is able to personify SMPC; eloquence and intelligence; and poise and bearing.
During the question and answer portion, the male candidates were asked a similar question: “What do you think is the most important issue or challenge that SPMC will be facing in the next five years?”
Paez said, “In the next five years, the most im- portant challenge that SPMC will be encountering would be being consistent. For a hundred years now, we have been consistent in providing excellent, sustainable, and accessible health care services and most especially SPMC has produced men and women like you health care professionals -- that are confident, committed, responsible in are very efficient in providing an extra hand for those in need.”
On the other hand, the ladies were all asked, “If the plan will push through, President Rodrigo Duterte will grace the affair on August 11 for our gala night. If given the chance to talk to our President for just five minutes, what would you tell him in behalf SPMC and why?”
Labradores responded, “If we will be privilege to have the presence of our beloved President, his excellency President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, the first thing that I’m going to tell him is that - we the people of SPMC are very much thankful for his presence and that we are very much inspired by what he is doing right now as the President, as the leader of this country.”
“Second, I would like to tell him that we are very much inspired to do our very own job as personnel’s of SMPC as he puts so much devotion in his on job being the President and lastly, as a doctor, I would like to tell him, to remind him, to take care of his health as well because before we love others, we should first love ourselves,” she said.
Meanwhile, Kirk Patrick Basinilio and Apple Micah Ampit were hailed as the 1st runner-ups while Dr. Marc Lester Ibanez and Vanessa Ruth Chan emerged as 2nd runner-ups.
The activity is one of the highlights of the SMPC’s Centennial celebration anchored on the theme, “A Century of Passion, Mission, and Care for All.”