This will be the third health screening for this year and it will be held on the ground floor of the Marianas Business Plaza Building.
Registration starts at 6:30 a.m. but the health screening begins at 7 a.m. and ends at 12 noon.
“This free health screening program by the Philippine Consulate General, the Philippine Overseas Labor Office and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration is done in cooperation with the Filipino Volunteer Medical Team, the CNMI Pharmacist Association, Hardt Eye Clinic and volunteer Filipino community members,” Macaraig said.
The medical services include blood pressure, blood sugar and eye-vision check-ups.
Those who will avail of the blood sugar level check-up must refrain from taking solid and liquid food from 12 midnight prior to actual testing until after blood samples have been obtained from them during the health screening.
On June 5, 2011, the medical screening served 392 Filipino workers on Saipan.
Of this number, 323 availed of the blood sugar and blood pressure examination while Hardt Eye Clinic served 69 eye patients.
This program is conducted to increase awareness on diabetes prevention and control, hypertension prevention and eye/vision pressure correction among the Filipino workers, Macaraig said.
