The Philippine Consulate General also registered overseas absentee voters and processed passport renewals.
Consul General Wilfredo DL. Maximo said their consular services are also offered on Rota.
However, because of financial constraint, consulate general personnel offers their services once a year only on Rota, during the island’s fiesta.
“We take advantage of the fiesta traffic to draw a lot of Filipinos there,” Maximo said, adding their services also include notaries and special power of attorney.
Filipinos on Tinian, which is near Saipan, usually visit the consulate here, he added.
As for health services, Maximo said while there are many medical and health volunteers, his office has no sufficient funds to defray their expenses to Rota.
Yesterday, as early as 6 a.m. Filipino workers were already gathering at the Filipino Workers Resource Center on the ground floor of the Marianas Business Plaza.
Labor Representative Joan Lourdes D. Lavilla said most of those who availed of the free health screening are regular patients.
“They just wanted to regularly monitor their health,” she said.
The services offered by the medical Hardt Eye Clinic volunteers included blood pressure, blood sugar and vision check-ups
As of 10:28 a.m. about 255 patients had already been listed for blood sugar and blood pressure examination.
A total of 90 workers availed of the eye check-up.
The free health screening lasted until 12 noon.
“We wish that this project would continue so that we can increase the level of awareness on diabetes prevention and control, hypertension prevention, eye/vision pressure correction among the workers and ourselves as public servants,” Maximo said.
