Clarin gets new life-saving car

Clarin town has a new essential ambulance unit from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) thru then congressman and now Gov. Edgar Chatto.

Leaders of the grateful Second District municipality thanked in a Sangguniang Bayan (SB) resolution the governor for “patiently and religiously facilitated the release” of the vital emergency facility.

“Clarin is very lucky enough to have one (ambulance unit) thru the help of ever dynamic, project-oriented, supportive and dedicated servant Edgar Chatto, governor of the Province of Bohol,” the resolution said.

Clarin is headed by new Mayor Allen Ray Piezas and Vice Mayor Hermogenes Diezon, respectively the then vice mayor and mayor when the municipality asked the PCSO for ambulance.

Chatto was then the congressman of the First District, to where the town otherwise does not belong, but still he worked out for the release of the ambulance on request of the town leaders for his support.

The municipal council had long requested, in fact way back 2006, the PCSO thru Chairman Sergio Valencia and General Manager Rosario Uriate for the ambulance but it was not granted until Chatto intervened for the town.

The emergency life-saving vehicle is so vital considering that Clarin is five-town far from Tagbilaran City, where Bohol’s biggest and only tertiary government hospital, the Gov. Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital, is located. The hospital is under the Department of Health (DOH).

Clarin has one of the devolved hospitals run by the provincial government , though.

In the SB resolution town leaders deemed it “proper to express our sincere feeling of gratefulness…for this answered prayer of the municipality.” (JONA/EdCom)