TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, July 1 (PIA) -- Tagbilaran City Mayor Jane Yap presented her health and education report card on her campaign promise of “Serbisyong Gugma Para sa Tanan,” during a modest gathering of city hall officials and employees as well as provincial officials and guests.

Sharing her dream of making Tagbilaran City the hub for womb-to-tomb services, Yap began detailing the city’s services on pre-natal care reaching a daily average of 3.2 pregnant women, giving them education, counseling and vitamins supplementation, birthing facilities operation and about the same post-partum visits including vitamins supplementation to birthing mothers.

For their service to the children, the city recorded 1,217 full kid immunization, provided vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella and oral polio to 7,078 children aged 0-59 months, and served an average of 3.8 children with flu vaccines daily.

In bringing health services to where the city residents are, the Balay-to-Balay personal health check-up is now supplemented by Tagbilaran City Mobile Clinic with X-Ray, Ultrasound, Laboratory, and ECG capabilities in what Yap called as convenient doorstep access to essential health services.

In less than a year, too, the city broke ground for the Tagbilaran City Super Mega Health Center; a three-storey one-stop-shop health facility with various health care services and facilities such as x-ray, ultra sound, ECG, 2D ECHO and CT scan.

The facility would also be boasting of the first government-owned and operated physiochemical laboratory in Bohol, she said.

Upcoming is also the construction of the Tagbilaran City Dialysis Center, which will initially operate with 10 dialysis machines.

Seeing this, the city earned the top performing local government unit (LGU) citation for increased health budget allocation and full utilization, the John Snow Award for outstanding performance in disease surveillance and response, the platinum award in the national voluntary blood services and the top performing LGU in the COVID-19 vaccination for the general population and senior citizen categories from the Department of Health.

As for education, the city prides itself for its free education with air-conditioned day care centers, hired, trained and qualified early childhood development teachers.

For its off-center barangays, the city bought educational toys and distributed learning materials.

And through the City’s Special Education Fund, they now have hired city-paid teachers and non-teaching personnel for public elementary and secondary schools, the school bills for utilities, and security personnel utilizing about P40M for this.

The city also provided living allowances for all public school teachers in Tagbilaran City.

In a year, the city has completed the construction of the multi-purpose covered courts in Cabawan, Dao and San Isidro Elementary School, and finished the repair of the Dr. Cecilio Putong National High School Gym and the perimeter fence of Manga Elementary School.

To address power outages in the schools, Tagbilaran City upgraded the power transformers at Manga National High School and San Isidro Elementary School, and put up the powerhouse and ground leveling projects at Tagbilaran City Science High School, all costing the city P21M in infrastructure projects from the Special Education Fund.

With the assistance of the Department of Education, the city has 24 newly-completed classrooms at the Tagbilaran City Central Elementary School and a soon-to-be completed four-storey building with 32 classrooms for the Senior High School students of Dr. Cecilio Putong National High School, which would be located in Brgy. Cabawan.

More and more classrooms are also set for Tagbilaran City Science High School and Tagbilaran City Central Elementary School.

For the senior high schools, the city government procured P8M worth of senior high school equipment.

For college, the Mayor reported that Tagbilaran Cityt has extended P5.4 M worth of college scholarships to 853 students.

She shared her joy in witnessing the graduation of 29 scholarship recipients, seven of them graduating with Latin honors.

“We are very proud that our very own Tagbilaran City College has finally produced its first batch of graduates,” she announced.

Degrees in Bachelor of Science in Tourism Management, Bachelor of Science in Office Administration, and Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship were awarded to 453 students of Tagbilaran City College (TCC).

As a certified UNIFAST, all TCC students need not pay for tuition and miscellaneous fees.

She also announced the completion of the four-storey building and basement of the TCC and built in it a modern learning environment by putting up an additional 2,000 books, e-books, journals and other learning resources, making student free access to the digital library on a 24/7. (RAHC/PIA7 Bohol)