SM medical mission benefits 584 Bulakenyos
AT least 584 Bulakenyos benefited from the recent SM Foundation medical and dental mission, which brought together doctors and volunteers at SM City Marilao.
The project provided health services to indigent patients in the community.
SM Foundation’s medical and dental mission, dubbed “Gamot Para sa Kapwa,” offered medical and dental checkups and procedures, blood pressure monitoring, and basic laboratory examinations that included uric acid, cholesterol, hemoglobin and blood sugar testing.
Free diagnostic and other laboratory services such as electrocardiogram and X-ray tests were likewise availed of through the SM Foundation Mobile Clinic.
Patients from Marilao and other neighboring towns were provided free medicines.
This year, SM Foundation’s project and volunteer partners include the Philippine National Red Cross-Bulacan Chapter and the Marilao Municipal Health Office. Private medical companies DMI Medical Supply Company Inc. and Willore Pharmaceutical also stepped forward to help rural folk through provision of health supplements and services.
SM Foundation’s Gamot Para sa Kapwa Medical and Dental Mission is the socio-civic arm of the SM Group of Companies, which aims to provide ancillary services to communities that have limited access to medical services. It also offers immediate dental benefits to economically disadvantaged patients within the malls’ vicinity.