FREE SERVICES. Dagupan City residents will benefit from free medical, social, and legal services to be provided by the local government and its partners at the City Plaza starting at 10 a.m. on Thursday (June 20, 2024) during the city’s foundation anniversary. The city government has declared the foundation anniversary celebration as a special working holiday. (Photo courtesy of Dagupan City local government)
MALASIQUI, Pangasinan – Free medical and legal services will be provided to residents of Dagupan City starting at 10 a.m. at the City Plaza on Thursday (June 20), during the celebration of its 77th chartered cityhood, a special working holiday.
This is the first time the city government provide “Unliserbisyo” (unlimited services) to the Dagupeños in celebration of the founding anniversary.
Among the free services to be offered are family planning and assistance for civil weddings by the City Population Office; free medical checkups, vitamins, and vaccination for pets by the City Veterinary Office; free late birth registration by the Civil Registry Office; free membership slots for Girl Scouts of the Philippines; free electrocardiogram, fasting blood sugar, cholesterol, uric acid, hemoglobin, blood analysis, urinalysis, X-ray, dental and tooth extraction by the City Health Office; registration for minor surgery by the University of Sto. Tomas (UST) medical mission; legal assistance or consultation by the City Legal Office; free theoretical driving course seminar by the Land Transportation Office (LTO); Overseas Filipino workers assistance desk consultation; and city scholarship application.
“This is to give more importance to those who are in need of these services. We want the people to feel the city government’s love for them through these services,” Mayor Belen Fernandez said in an interview, noting that she would be at the events' venue.
Relatively, some 100 Dagupeños will receive financial aid, but the amount is yet to be determined, through the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) assistance to individuals in crisis program, she said.
The city government will also distribute motorized boats to about 50 Dagupeño fisherfolk groups or associations while 25 other beneficiaries will receive "garong" or motorcycle with a sidecar for transporting animals or crops, she said.
A civic group is also scheduled to distribute wheelchairs, she said.
The Department of Agriculture (DA) will also distribute palay (rice) seeds to farmers and other seeds to residents for their community gardens, she said.
A wreath-laying activity will be held at the Eugenio Perez Shrine to honor the late House Speaker, who authored Republic Act (RA) 170, which was signed into law by President Manuel Roxas on June 20, 1947, making Dagupan a chartered city. (PNA)
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