San Carlos City opens rehab for persons with physical impairment

The San Carlos City Health Office recently opened its new P2.2 million-Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) facility for individuals suffering from physical impairment that need therapy, located at the old city hospital.

The facility consists of a three-door physical therapy room, storage room, comfort rooms, kitchen, receiving area, and offices for local supervisors and coordinator, which budget was taken from the city’s lump sum 2019 appropriation.

Reza David Castillo, resident PT, said the new facility is more comfortable and bigger compared to the old space they had in the City Health Office in which the beneficiaries or the differently-abled individuals need to schedule sessions to use the different equipment.

Castillo added the facility caters not only to physically disabled persons but also hearing and vision impaired ones.

City Health Officer,

Dr. Arniel Laurence

Portuguez, was grateful to the local government for carrying out the office’s long-standing request of having a relaxing environment for their patients.

Also present during the event were Congressman Gerardo Valmayor Jr. of the first district of Negros Occidental, SP Member Wilmer Yap; Cynthia Mirande, CSWD Officer; Ulysses Lezama, Executive Assistant of the City Mayor’s Office; and City Health Office employees./

(San Carlos City PIO photo) The San Carlos City Health Office opens its new P2.2 million-Community-Based Rehabilitation facility for individuals suffering from physical impairment that need therapy located at the old city hospital.

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