COTABATO CITY (April 16, 2026) — More than a hundred Muslim and Christian grade school boys were circumcised for free during a day-long outreach mission of Bangsamoro regional lawmakers and their health ministry in a private hospital in Kabacan town in Cotabato province on Tuesday, April 14.

Local executives and traditional Moro leaders in Kabacan confirmed to reporters on Wednesday that among the beneficiaries of the “Oplan Tuli” of the physician-ophthalmologist Kadil Sinolinding, Jr., who is a member of the 80-seat Bangsamoro parliament, and their chief minister, Abdulrauf Macacua, are from indigenous non-Moro communities in towns around.

Sinolinding is also functioning as health minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in concurrent capacity. The 129 children circumcised for free at the Deseret Surgimed Hospital in Barangay Kayaga in Kabacan are from Kidapawan City, the adjoining Carmen and Kabacan towns in Cotabato and the nearby Moro enclaves in the Special Geographic Area in the province. Municipal and Barangay officials in Carmen and Kabacan and Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza separately told reporters on Wednesday that they are thankful to the public service team of Sinolinding and Macacua and the Ministry of Health-BARMM for having embarked on the day-long Oplan Tuli at the Deseret Surgimed Hospital.

“That was a big group of boys, mostly from marginalized families. We can’t thank the people behind that outreach mission enough,” Taliño-Mendoza said. Sinolinding said he and his subordinates in his office in the parliament and in the MOH-BARMM are grateful to Macacua, figurehead of the regional lawmaking body, for having supported extensively their Kabacan humanitarian engagement, organized with the help of Muslim and Christian community leaders in Cotabato province. []