VPHCS opens new office

To be able to serve its communities much better, the Visayas Primary Health Care Services (VPHCS) has a new office. 

The office is a spacious two-storey house situated in in 2681 V. Rama Ave, Guadalupe. It has an office, library, conference room, and clinic dubbed as the Remedios~Aurora Clinic.

The VPHCS office and clinic in Guadalupe, Cebu City

The house is owned by the family of the late Aurora Fernandez, R.N. , a member of the Board of Trustees of the VPHCS who was a close friend of the VPHCS. When she retired as a public health nurse in Berkeley, California, U.S.A., and came back to the Philippines, Aurora volunteered in the VPHCS community-based health programs in Cebu and Bohol and programs and advocated for the protection of the environment. 

Before her untimely death in September 2012 in her Oakland home in California, Aurora expressed her desire to have her house in Guadalupe be used by the VPHCS for its services for the poor.

The clinic is also named after Aurora’s mother, Remedios. 

Children’s books

More than 100 children’s books were donated to the VPHCS from an active community-based health program advocate and VPHCS friend based in the United States.

Filipino nurse Lucita Luciani now based in Sta. Monica, California procured the books from the Santa Monica Public Library and shipped the books to VPHCS last January.

The books are donated in memory of Aurora Fernandez, R.N., who died last September 12, 2012 in the United States. Aurora was a member of the VPHCS Board of Trustees and an active CBHP advocate. In a label taped on each book were written words of her being a tireless activist, teacher, mother, grandmother and teacher. The labels were donated by Evelyn Marcelo and Maria Luciani.

Children in St. Mary Grace in Talamban, Cebu City reads the books

Some of the books were distributed to urban poor communities in Cebu with CBHP developed by the VPHCS. Members of the people’s organizations ensure that the books are enjoyed by the children in the communities. Some are in the library in the VPHCS office which are also read by patients seeking medical consultation in the clinic.

Enjoying a storybook