09/06/2017
WJWJ Medical Mission 2017 Report -
Santo Nino 2, Hinunangan, Southern Leyte
After a long preparation, much prayers and leg works, Wheels of Journey with Jesus was able to secure permit from Barangay Capt. Marcelo Cuta to use the elementary school building as the center of medical mission.
We are grateful on the warm welcome and very accommodating and supportive spirit of Mayor Eng’r. Reynaldo “Sonny” Fernandez. He didn’t just provide lunch for the medical staff but also instructed the Municipal Health Office to give all what they have to make the medical mission possible. He also allowed the municipality vehicle to be used to transport the equipment, personnel and the medicines to the site. He even showed up to the medical mission to encourage the whole team.
Dr. Lilian Lee Pojas, the RHU-MHO ensured that all members of her team were there. From the start up to the end of medical mission her service and her leadership was exemplary.
LtC. Danilo I. Dupiag (GSC) PA, commanding officer of 78th Infantry Battalion HQ 78IB, 8ID in Barangay Abuyogan, Burauen, Leyte sent his men who conducted most of the circumcision operations and hair cutting. We can’t thank him and his men enough.
The Lord provided us with six (6) doctors including a surgeon, 2 dentists, 11 nurses, 10 midwives, 2 med techs, 16 Philippine Army, 12 CAFGU, a good number of Barangay Tanods, 3 pastors and a good number of volunteers from the evangelical church.
The Litman Drugs Inc.as, in the previous year, donated an astounding fifty thousand pesos. We used that money to buy medicines. God richly bless you Litman Drugs Inc.
The United Laboratories Inc. on the other hand, donated vitamins worth almost twenty five thousand pesos. God bless you more United Laboratories.
Pastors Hanrile Salem, Teddy Jualo, and Sonia Pelin joined together in spreading the news about medical mission. With pre-registration paper in their possessions, they gathered 400 patients- the target number of patients to be catered. The actual patients showed up however, were only 292. Seventy one of which came for circumcision, 49 for dental care, and 172 for medical check-up. We lost counting of how many came for haircut.
We were informed later that the reason why many failed to come for the medical mission was the lack of money for fares.
From registration to taking of vital signs, patients will go to another room where pastors share the message of salvation. A maximum of 15 and a minimum of 10 patients in a single session were being gathered to hear the good news, then the patient will proceed to their designated room for consultation. For the young boys, their parents/guardian will do the registration to listening to the message of salvation up to taking the prescribed medicines. We did our best so that everyone will have a chance to hear the gospel. All of the registration cards containing all the necessary information about their health and their responses to the gospel were endorsed to the Pastors at Hinunangan for follow ups. We will regularly monitor the development of those follow ups. We already have lessons and programs to be given to the pastors to help them spiritually feed those who are willing.
