The Covid-19 pandemic has not spared Calapan City. As of 13
September 2021, Calapan has a total cumulative count of 2,282
positive cases, with 91 active cases, 2,111 recoveries, and 69
deaths. That is 2,282 lives directly impacted by Covid, and 69
lives painfully taken away. One life is one too many, and Calapan
desperately needs to beat Covid.
As a private citizen,
Bim has been actively leading civil society’s partnership with
national and local governments in the fight to strengthen
healthcare systems against Covid. He constructed world-class
private and public hospitals providing additional 1,250 beds and
over 20,000 sqm in out-patient department facilities. He also
built testing centers and isolation facilities in Tarlac and
Laguna, including the 25,000 sqm Mega Covid Isolation Facility
Laguna for Region 4A.
This is the kind of effective
leadership Bim intends to bring to Calapan as the pandemic rages
on. His experience in quickly mobilizing resources and executing
cost-effective Covid response projects will benefit Calapan’s
struggling healthcare system to fight this (and future) pandemics.