• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
The Moises Padilla municipal government, in tandem with the Negros Occidental provincial government and Fifth District Rep. Emilio Bernardino Yulo, is further bringing government services closer to the people and improving its road networks.
Mayor Ella Celestina Garcia-Yulo said on Friday (March 14) they have brought the “Serbisyo sa Barangay Caravan” to the hinterland barangays of Macagahay, Inolingan, Montilla and even to the remote sitios of Quintin Remo since last year for the people to know and feel that the government cares for them.
The “Serbisyo sa Barangay Caravan” offers medical and other health-related services to Moises Padilla residents with participation of the various national government agencies such as Philippine Health Insurance Corp., Social Security System and Philippine Statistics Authority, as facilitated by the office of Yulo and the provincial government, which also dispatched its mobile health clinic.
“This kind of activity aims to bring the government services closer to the people,” the mayor said as she spearheaded such activity in Barangay Montilla on Friday.
She was accompanied by her husband, Felix Mathias Yulo, members of the Sangguniang Bayan, municipal department heads and employees.
The barangays of Quintin Remo, Inolingan, Montilla, Macagahay and remote sitios of Guinpanaan used to be under the influence of the New People’s Army before the Central Negros 1 guerilla front was dismantled last year by the Philippine Army.
The municipal government put up a satellite clinic in Sitio Tibobong, the farthest sitio of Barangay Quintin Remo, the site of numerous encounters between government forces and the NPA, and sends doctors twice a week to the area to conduct medical consultations.
Yulo said that her administration also focuses on the concreting of road networks in the hinterland barangays through the assistance of the congressman.
“We believe that progress starts with good roads,” she said, adding that people in remote areas could transport easily their products to the poblacion if there are concrete road networks.
Asked about the peace and order situation, the mayor said “so far, so good”, but they are not taking chances as the authorities did not lower their vigilance.
During the 2019 elections, Moises Padilla was placed under the Commission on Elections control due to election-related violence, with the family of Garcia-Yulo among the victims. | GB
