436 Moro boys circumcised during outreach mission | Notre Dame Broadcaster

Health workers circumcised 436 children from marginalized Moro families in just three days and treated more than a thousand other children with common conditions in a series of relief missions.

Local executives were quoted in radio reports on Wednesday as saying that beneficiaries of the joint outreach activities, which started on Sunday, included private organizations, peace groups and the office in the 80-seat Bangsamoro Parliament of regional lawmaker Kadil Monera Sinolinding Jr. come from agricultural enclaves in remote areas in two newly established cities under the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, but are located in North Cotabato.

The two towns, Kaabacan and Kapalawan, created last April through separate bills by the regional parliament, mainly cover Moro barangays, grouped as the BARMM Special Geographic Zone, whose residents prior to the inclusion of their barangays in the proposed core area of the Bangsamoro voted. region during a plebiscite in 2019.

Barangay officials told reporters on Wednesday that they welcomed volunteers from Deseret Hospital in nearby Barangay Kayaga, ophthalmologist Sinolinding, who also serves simultaneously as BARMM Health Secretary, and the region’s Chief Minister Ahod Balawag Ebrahim. being grateful for medical and dental care. missions that benefited their impoverished constituents.

Volunteers from Deseret Hospital and the outreach team at the Sinolinding office in the regional parliament had extended medical and dental services to 3,340 persons, including children and elderly Moro villagers, 436 of whom underwent surgical repair of their cataracts and pterygium during relief missions treated. that started after he was dismissed in 2022 by Pres. Marcos, Jr.

Sinolinding told reporters on Wednesday that they will soon expand their relief missions to other Bangsamoro barangays in the six other newly created BARMM municipalities, Pahamudin, Kadayangan, Nabalawag, Malidegao, Tugunan and Ligawasan, also within the territory of Cotabato province.