Doctor Nenita Moraga Po, chief of Gov. Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital issued her reactions on the reported "lousy" service rendered by said hospital to visiting top-notch doctors who came to Bohol for a medical mission under a foundation identified with First Gentleman Mike Arroyo.

In her reaction to the Chronicle report, Po said that the hospital gives "services to the people - not to a few Manila doctors" saying that the Manila doctors "were the ones to give their services as they came here for a mission."

She explained that the hospital was only the "venue, yet we acceded to their request for medicines, anesthetics and supplies which they lack." In fact Po said the hospital "gave them a bigger space for the cataract operation which was the main purpose of their visit.

The hospital, she said, assigned its own OR nurses to help them because the nurses from the district hospitals have limited knowledge on the operating room set-up.

She also denied the statement issued by Dr. Federico Malubay that the operation would wrap up earlier than it was scheduled. This statement of the medical mission team was told to the Chronicle by Dr. Malubay himself during a talk late Saturday evening.

The statements of the visiting doctors to the Chronicle were issued past 9 o'clock Saturday evening, just barely enough to beat the deadline of the paper.

However, Gov. Erico Aumentado, during the "Governor's Report," last June 2, said he already asked Dr. Po and Provincial Health officer Dr. Remoises Cabagnot to a meeting after the observations of the Manila doctors regarding the lousy service was brought to the attention of the governor himself.

Po, however, in her reaction said that "she could not imagine the governor to have blasted regarding the issue.

The hospital chief also said that it is not true that the matter was investigated by the Department of Health citing a "lady undersecretary to have told her that there was no such investigation called."
She did not identify the undersecretary.

In her statement, Dr. Po also said that Dr. Malubay, the mission team head "is not our higher official" while narrating that the "group did not even make a courtesy call at her office as chief of hospital before they started." Po said that Francisca Baluyot, consultant on health and serial services of the provincial government told them that a briefing was scheduled at Bohol Tropics, but there was none and they were just served lunch.