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U.S. and Philippine Military Personnel Bring Free Medical and Dental Assistance to Batangas Villages

A young resident from Barangay Utod in Nasugbu, Batangas Province receives anti-parasitic medicine from U.S. Army Sgt 1st Class Joffree Gilliard and a Philippine Army soldier during a joint U.S. - Philippine military medical mission. The eight-day activity, which ended June 30, provided free medical and dental treatment to six Nasugbu barangays and over 4,000 patients. The activity enhanced RP-U.S. medical interoperability and military civic action cooperation by training civil-military teams to work together. (U.S. Army photo)
U.S. Army Specialist Nichole Fuerer and her Philippine Army counterpart, explain to a mother a medicine prescribed to her children during the joint medical mission of the U.S. and Philippine personnel in Barangay Bullihan, Nasugbu, in Batangas Province. The eight-day activity, which ended June 30, provided free medical and dental treatment to six Nasugbu barangays and over 4,000 patients. As part of U.S.-Philippine military cooperation, military personnel of both countries have various ongoing activities that enhance their capability to work as one team in military as well as humanitarian missions. (U.S. Army photo)
U.S. Army Specialist Nichole Fuerer, along with her Philippine Army counterpart, hands out free medicine to a family of patients checking out from pediatric treatment in Barangay Bullihan, Nasugbu, in Batangas Province. Free dental and medical treatments as well as free medicines were provided to over 4,000 residents of Bullihan and five other Nasugbu villages during the U.S.-Philippine military’s joint medical mission in the province on June 22-30.
U.S. Army dentists Capt. Ramie Barfuss (second, right) and PV2 Latasha Shirley (right) discuss treatment options with Philippine Army MAJ Josef V. Orilla (left) and a Nasugbu municipal dentist during the joint U.S. - Philippine medical mission in Barangay Wawa, in Nasugbu, Batangas Province. Over 4,000 residents in Barangay Wawa and five other barangays in Nasugbu received free medical and dental treatment during the eight-day joint medical mission. The activity enhanced RP-U.S. medical interoperability and military civic action cooperation by training civil-military teams to work together.

Last Update :: 07/07/2008

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