City market vagrant rescued

BAGUIO CITY --  An elderly woman, living in one of the stalls at Block 4 of the city public Market was rescued by the City Social Welfare and Development Office on March 15.
    The City Social Welfare and Development Office led by Ms. Liza Bulayungan acted immediately on a concerned citizen’s report to the Public Information Office about an elderly woman supposedly forsaken by her family and has taken one of the stalls as the public market as her abode.
    The concerned citizen with Social Media name Lem Lem, a vendor at the Block 4, reported that the elderly woman visibly has not taken a bath for long, urinates and excretes on the spot where she lives causing excessive odor and is unsanitary.
    “The stench causes customers/tourists to evade the place thus affecting the businesses nearby,” Lem Lem said in her report to the PIO.
    The CSWDO was able to locate the elderly woman (name withheld per request of family) five days after the structural fire that gutted Block 3 and Block 4.
    She was immediately brought to the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC) for medical intervention on March 15, 2023 while her family was being located.
    Luckily, the CSWDO was able to contact her sister at Novaliches, Quezon City who expressed her desire to take custody of her and is willing to send her niece to fetch her the soonest.
    On the same day on March 15 at 7:00 in the evening, the elderly woman was turned over to her niece and is now happily reintegrated to her sister.  
    The CSWDO gave thanks to the concerned citizen who reported the case of the elderly woman that led to her rescue and reintegration with her family.
    To report similar cases, call the CSWDO at 444-6467 or 422-6056. – JMPS