While Cebu City council questioned the plans of the Osmeña administration of hiring additional job order employees to aid in city’s new program, Mayor Tomas Osmeña said he believed the city could eventually save for hospitalization and burial expenses.
In a news conference yesterday, Osmeña explained that these hired volunteers who are out-of-school youth will help the city in delivering free maintenance medicines to identified patients.
Under the program called Long Life Medical Assistance Program, constituents will receive their daily dose of medicine right at their door step.
“This is a highly modified and highly disciplined version of City Hall At Your Doorstep because literally in your doorstep, not in your barangay,” he said.
Osmeña added that he is trying to implement the best healthcare system in the world.
“If all took their daily dose of medicine, less people will become sick. If less people become sick, we spend less in hospitalization. I’m willing to make a bet, we will be saving in burial expenses,” he said.
The volunteers will just knock on their door with their medicine, he said.
Their target is to deliver medicines to 30,000 people a day.
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