THE Maharlika Charity Foundation Inc. (MCFI) is calling on residents of Davao and Caraga regions with offsprings born with clubfoot to seek treatment and rehabilitation as MCFI jumpstarts the year with its expanded charity programs.
Clubfoot referrals for Carga Regio are being accepted every Thursday at the Metro Pacific Health Inc. Manuel J. Santos Hospital (MJSH) in Butuan City. Program coordinator for Caraga is Carlito Kho with mobile number 0946-382-1333.
Clubfoot referrals are accepted in Davao Region every Friday at the Maharlika Charity
Foundation Inc. along J.P. Cabaguio Avenue. Coordinators are Weng Rañon (0942-965-9734) and Sheila Lamban (0932-967-7857).
The availability of this free service in Caraga came to be following the Memorandum of
Agreement (MOA) signed by Dr. Terence Anthony S. Vesagas, CEO of MJSH, and Dr. Benedict Anthony B. Valdez, president of MCFI.
This partnership forms part of MCFI’s program expansion that sees the setting up of these free treatment in key areas in Mindanao and the Visayas.
Dr. Valdez said the MOA signing establishes this program’s 2025 phase. They envision to
partner with other health facilities in Koronadal and Misamis Oriental in 2026 to cover
Socsksargen and Northern Mindanao, and in 2027, the areas eyed are Leyte and Ozamis City.
The clubfoot treatment program is a cooperation between MCFI, the Philippine NGO Council on Population, Health, and Welfare Inc. (PNGOC), and MiracleFeet.
Soon after the MOA with MJSH was signed, a training session on the Ponseti method of clubfoot treatment was conducted for MJSH and MCFI to equip healthcare providers with the
skills to implement this non-surgical approach through casting.
In its website, MiracleFeet said that the ideal setup is for treatment to comment within a week after birth “when the tendons and ligaments are at their most elastic.” But, it adds, the Ponseti method has been used successfully on children upto 6 years of age.
“Treatment using the Ponseti method will in most cases involve 5-8 weeks of manipulations and castings,” the MiracleFeet website information reads. SAE