The Maharlika Charity Foundation, Inc. will conduct a free medical operation for indigenous people, children, retirees from government and private institutions from December 1 to 19.
MCFI will forego its annual charity show this year and instead will perform surgeries for cataract, “cross-eyed” and harelip for 19 days at the Maharlika Center Building along J.P. Cabaguio Avenue here.
“The economic plague that confronts the world today affected mostly third world countries and because of this, financial constraint and our willingness to donate likewise suffers. In lieu of our benefactors’ donations for our annual charity show, their donations will be used to underwrite the operation of cataract patients, “cross-eyed” and harelip children this Christmas,” Dr. Rizal Aportadera, MCFI president said.
Early this year, Maharlika Foundation ventured to Compostela Valley Province, Surigao del Sur, Zamboanga and Baungon, Cagayan de Oro to perform cataract, cleft lip and dental procedures.
The Maharlika Charity Foundation has been going to the remotest and underserved places in answer to the needs of the indigents and indigenous peoples of Mindanao with cataract, squints, harelip, soft tissue tumors and cysts problems.
Their mobile operations theater “Dapitan” had been to more than 25 surgical missions in the island of Mindanao.
“Maharlika Charity Foundation and its corps of volunteer workers will never tire performing medical miracles for people with disability in making their Christmas wish come true,” Aportadera said.
Maharlika Charity Foundation’s specialized and rehabilitative surgical and dental outreach missions had been serving indigents residents in remote and underserved places of Mindanao since 1973.
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Great story. We need more charity organizations like the Maharlika Charity Foundation to help the world’s indigenous people combat the various health issues they are facing.
To whom this may concern,
I have a daughter who got pregnant at 17 and gave birth to a daughter with a bilateral cleft defect. My daughter went to Dr. Antonio Feliciano ( A medical resident of CIUDAD MEDICAL in Zamboanga City, Philippines) who accordingly operates children with harelip, cleft defects et.al under the grants of foundations like the Maharlika, Jerom and SMILES.
In his assessment, he specifically stressed that the foundations performs operations of defects mentioned above to indigent patients.
My daughter is a minor. She has no Job as she was still studying when she was raped by her boyfriend (no report or case filed in court). The hospital and necessary expenses for my granddaughter is being shared by a lot of relatives (me, my mother-in-law, sisters-in-law, my 2 older brothers).
From what I read about your foundation, i specifically noted the statement that you give free medical operations not only to indigenuous peoples but to children as well with birth defects such as a bilateral cleft defect.
In a sense, we were categorically denied of a free operation by Doctor Feliciano based on his physical assessment of my daughter. I am emotionally hurting because i pity my granddaughter if she will grow up to have this defect. her life will not be normal. I will not be writing to you if i have the means and money to pay for her series of operations.
I would like to directly ask help from your foundation if it is possible that my granddaughter be given the benefit to be operated under your foundation.
I would also like to ask if your foundation does not discriminate eligible patients by way of physical assessment.
TO MAY EVANGELINE FERNANDO, Zamboanga:
HAVE CONTACTED MAHARLIKA DAVAO RE YOUR PROBLEM. ITS ZAMBOANGA UNIT WOULD BE KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH YOU THROUGH YOUR EMAIL AD. FEEL FREE TO CONNECT IF THERE IS MORE I COULD DO.
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