COTABATO CITY (September 18, 2025) — More than 200 residents of Barangay Anick in Pigcawayan town in Cotabato, including children and pregnant women, benefitted from a medical mission of their provincial government on Wednesday, September 17.

Local executives and Shirlyn Macasarte-Villanueva, an incumbent Sangguniang Panlalawigan member, separately told reporters on Thursday, September 18, that the outreach activity the office of Gov. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza was spearheaded by combined personnel of the Provincial Health Office and the Integrated Provincial Health Office-Cotabato.

Community leaders in Barangay Anick in Pigcawayan said 217 villagers, among them children and elderly folks with common illnesses, were examined by physicians then and were immediately provided with free medicines for various ailments.

A number of pregnant women from different areas in Anick, an agricultural area, also received vitamin supplements from their provincial government, according to municipal and barangay officials.

The activity was also supported by Eliseo Garcesa, Jr., a provincial consultant on governance in Taliño-Mendoza’s office. Garcesa is a resident of Pigcawayan, one of the 17 towns in Cotabato.

Photo shows health workers serving residents of Barangay Anick during a medical mission in the area on Wednesday of the office of Taliño-Mendoza, their provincial chief executive.