Elderly to get ECG for free
Filed under page 2 side story by Pangasinan Today on 09-03-2008
By AUDREY D. HIDALGO
Managing Editor
At least 86 senior citizens from all 31 villages in Dagupan stand to benefit from a health service which a leading pharmaceutical company across the country will be rendering when it visits Dagupan very soon.
The firm intends to provide electrocardiogram or ECG check up for free to the elderly.
The check up will be conducted at the senior citizens’ building along
A.B. Fernandez Ave. west
Those who qualified for the check up are members of the Senior Citizens Association of the Philippines-Dagupan City Chapter (SCAP-Dagupan) who have been selected by officials of the association, according to focal person Lorna Fernandez.
Fernandez said the project is intended to benefit the elderly who could not afford to pay for an ECG check up.
Aside from the check up, free medicines will be accorded to the qualified patients.
The project is part of the public service which the city government with the cooperation of private companies, intends to implement for healthier Dagupenos.
