FREE MEDICINE. Cebu Metropolis Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia (excessive left) talks to the residents of Barangay Tinago throughout an meeting on Friday (Nov. 1, 2024). Garcia introduced that senior residents within the metropolis would obtain their upkeep medicine beginning January 2025. (Photograph courtesy of Cebu Metropolis PIO)
CEBU CITY – Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia on Friday mentioned aged residents right here will obtain upkeep medicine beginning January 2025.
In a barangay meeting within the coastal village of Tinago, Garcia mentioned there can be found funds for this program that may profit over 90,000 seniors.
“That’s why subsequent yr, I promise you that we now have put within the finances that subsequent yr, January, we’ll begin giving each day upkeep drugs,” the mayor mentioned.
“You’ll not purchase these medicines anymore,” he vowed.
The mayor mentioned this system got here when many senior residents requested about it when he visited varied barangays.
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Additionally, Garcia introduced that within the first week of December, senior residents can even obtain their month-to-month allowance from October to December. (PNA)