To supplement the services rendered by the health department, the Office of the Mayor also extends related efforts to alleviate the plight of indigent patients and their families.
The office maintains at present two ambulances that ferry needy people --- sick or women on the verge of giving birth --- to hospitals and fetch them after treatment or giving birth.
Demand for services of the ambulances is such that they are seldom seen idle except in case of mechanical breakdown. But even when any one of them is out of commission, any of the service vehicles of the Mayor's Office takes its place.
In addition, the Mayor had assigned liaisons to negotiate with hospitals to bring fees within the reach of the poor patients.
In serious cases, the Mayor's staff prepares letters for his signature appealing for financial aid from the Philippine Charity and Sweepstakes Office or PCSO and other institutions to indigent patients. A liaison office handles this.*
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