The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
At the Health and Wellness Caravan, residents are given free check-ups, blood examination, blood pressure taking, chest Xray, medicines and reading glasses.
A Philippine Red Cross doctor examines the residents and the test results, prescribes medication and provides medicines when available.
SMDC residents help organize and serve their neighbors in true bayanihan spirit.
In pay-it-forward fashion, the caravan also includes bloodletting. Residents donate much-needed blood for COVID-19 patients. This energy exchange between SMDC and Red Cross has been going on for two years and counting.