Around 175 children were served during the medical mission conducted by the Visayas Primary Health Care Services in coordination the Pangpang Farmers and Fisherfolks Organization (PAF0) in Barangay Pangpay, Ubay, Bohol on Feb. 27, 2010.
The team of volunteer doctors and health staff together with members of the Student Alliance for Community Health Services (SACHS) students of Holy Name University University in Tagbilaran City rendered the health services which included urinalysis, nutritional status determination, visual acuity testing, dental check-up and medical check-up.
The VPHCS started such type of medical mission of physical examination of children last March 2009 with the objective of screening of visual, urinary tract and dental problems, malnutrition and other problems which could impair the proper growth and development of the children. The VPHCS shall come up with a health profile and recommendations for intervention of the children.