CAGAYAN de Oro City Mayor Oscar Moreno asked incoming Mayor Rolando ‘Klarex’ Uy to sustain two of the city’s most challenging programs.
“Nakigstorya nako kang Mayor Klarex, gihangyo ko siya nga ang Universal Health Care (og ang housing and resettlement program) ato ning ipadayon sa Cagayan de Oro,” Mayor Moreno told City Hall employees and officials during his last flag-raising program.
Moreno said this as he reiterated his commitment to support Mayor Klarex and called on City Hall’s bureaucracy to extend their support to Uy’s administration which takes over at noon today.
“This is a bureaucracy that I said time and again on which we painstakingly planted the seeds of professionalism (and commitment to public service),” Moreno said.
In asking Mayor Uy to sustain the two programs, Moreno said Cagayan de Oro City was selected by the national government as the only pilot city for the Universal Health Care Act.
“We are already 75 percent (in compliance with the Health Care Act) and we are way ahead of Pangasinan province (in terms of both capacity and readiness),” Moreno said.
Moreno said Cagayan de Oro City’s health care capacity was acknowledged by Science and Technology Secretary Fortunato dela Peña, the Philippine Health Center for Research and Development, and a designated team from the Ateneo de Manila University.
On the city’s housing program, Moreno said resettlement remains the most challenging for any government to implement for its constituents.
“We cannot do it (housing program) Sendong style in which we wait for a natural or manmade calamity to occur so that groups like Gawad Kalinga and Habitat for Humanity will build houses for the displaced families. By setting up our own housing department, we recognize our goal to be ambitious,” Moreno said as he credited Councilor Edgar Cabanlas for helping shepherd the city’s socialized housing program.
Re-elected Councilor Cabanlas chairs both the committees on urban poor and housing and landed estate in the City Council.
“I trust that Councilor Cabanlas (will help Mayor Klarex) in continuing to implement our housing program,” Moreno said. (Stephen Capillas of City Information Office)
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