Makati Medical Center. We were able to charter their plane for the price of the fuel needed to fly the round trip to Manila. In the meantime, Dr. Rudy Jao came over to check Joyce. Flo Apeles came over also and helped make the arrangement for a Neurologist, a certain Dr. Aldanesse who has an admitting privileges at the Makati Medical Center. Flo made arrangement to admit Joyce under the doctor's care. He also went to the bank quickly to exchange his dollars for pesos needed to pay for transportation and ambulance. Flo and I contacted Joyce Ancog family in the United States to let them know about the accident, Joyce's condition and our decision to transport her to a Manila hospital. Joyce was discharged from the hospital on June 2nd with a diagnosis of Subarachnoid Hermorrhage - traumatic origin and Polyneuropathy.
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crowd would quickly enveloped the tables where the nurses and doctors were seated. There were a lot of pedia-tric patients. Dr. Rudy Mercader was really working hard, and perspiration was rolling down his face and his shirt was soaking wet.
     Antibiotics and anti-tussive where in short supply. We have to purchase more medicines from the local phar-macy in town. The Mayor of Torrijos and his staff took good care of the medical missioners. They made sure that each and everyone are fed and supplied with cold bottled water.
     Since we didn't have an ophthalmo-logist in the group, Mrs. Paz Sulit set up a room to do eye examinations. VIGNETTES: Now she has a new title: DONA PAZ. At the part on Friday in Manila, given by the Club Marinduqueno, the missioners were introduced to members of the club. When it was Paz's turn to be introduced, Dr. Rudy Jao proceeds with "... and this is Dona Paz", not realizing that a few of the Club Marinduqueno members did not know Paz personally. In Sta. Cruz, during the off-site clinic, introductions were again necessary or no longer necessary. On of the locals replied, "Oh, I know her already. She is Dona Paz."  The gentle-man really thought that her name was Dona Paz. For this classy lady and
her hard work in Sta. Cruz and Torrijos, she deserves the title; hence-forth to all Missioners, let it be known that from now on I award her the official title, DONA PAZ.
    The following deserves ur gratitude and thanks for working so hard in Torrijos: Vi Magsino, Cora M. Diperio, Luce L. Rubio,, Espie Logatoc, Edgar and Lita Alandy, Mr. & Mrs. Andre Belarmino, Steve and Alma Sosa, Dave and Macrine Katague, Ralph and Cely Mondonedo who treated the group to a merienda after a hard days work. Drs. Rudy Mercader, Encarnado, Larracas, and Dona Paz, who set up another eye examination clinic.
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Off-Site Clinic in Torrijos
FOOTNOTE: Joyce has recovered and is doing well. She attended the Marinduque Reunion in Canada.
    God Bless you Dr. Cora Voorhis, for providing the jet plane, and God bless you also Flo Apeles for helping and arranging the transportation of Joyce to Makati Medical Center.
     The above experience is, I think a way, a subtle way the Good Lord is showing all of us Marinduquenos what our province needs in terms of medical emergency.
Torrijos covered court off-site clinic
The patients in Torrijos arrived as early as seven o'clock in the morning. The doctors and nurses coming from the Provincial Hospital had a late start. There were over two hundred patients waiting in the covered court in town eager to be seen by a doctor. Crowd control was a hopeless proposition. No sonner, a line was formed - the
Thursday's dinner was hosted by Mrs. Ludy Sulit and family in Boac.
It was a long, tiring and bumpy trip to Boac but what made the trip worth-while is the sumptuous dinner waiting for us at the Sulit's residence.
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