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MANILA, Philippines – They went to the barrios as part of their scholarship grant, but in the end, their heart told them to stay.

The First Gentleman Foundation Inc. (FGFI) recently presented 38 new scholars of the Bagong Doktor Para Sa Bayan (BDPSB) program at the Heroes Hall in Malacañang. The foundation now has 100 doctors and would-be doctors to the barrios in its roster.

To a great extent a project’s success depends on its public relations officer’s drive, dreams, vision — and, most of all, belief in the project. The First Gentleman’s Foundation’s many projects have largely been successful due to the efforts of Juris Umali Soliman, president of the foundation. Her job calls for implementing her boss’s ideas and keeping the projects going. If she is successful, it’s because she has complete faith and admiration for her boss, First Gentleman Mike Arroyo.

The first batch of young doctors who had finished the medical course under the First Gentleman Foundation (FGF) Bagong Doktor Para Sa Bayan program are now serving in far-flung places in the country. Telling their experiences, the men and women in uniform describe the thrill and the unexpected in working with patients most of whom had never ever seen a doctor.

MANILA, Philippines – Two friends have come in for a visit from very successful medical practice in the US in the past month. When asked what went on in their minds when they made their choice to practice abroad in their mid-twenties, one said, “The opportunities for doctors promised big returns and the lure of America was tempting.” Another, in retrospect, said, “Sometimes, one makes the right decisions for the wrong reasons.”

MANILA, Philippines—One hundred young doctors, all scholars of the Bagong Doktor Para Sa Bayan (BDB) program of the First Gentleman Foundation Inc. (FGFI), were honored in a luncheon in Malacañang recently.

The medical scholars have agreed to serve as doctors in poor communities in the country for two years after passing their medical board examination.

MANILA, Philippines – It was like Christmas for the five medical scholars from West Visayas State University who attended the recent luncheon get-together of the First Gentleman Foundation’s “Bagong Doktor Para sa Bayan” project at Heroes Hall in Malacañang. The students get financial assistance on their tuition and allowances in their fourth and fifth years.

FIVE medical students of the West Visayas State University have been included in the latest batch of scholars of the Bagong Doktor Para Sa Bayan project of the First Gentleman Foundation.

They are Ma. Rowena Alcido of Iloilo; Christine Rio Bistis of Negros Occidental; Norie Grace Omomalin of Zamboanga Sibugay, Lotgarda Tayao of Baguio City and Ana Lor-Sha Villaber of Bohol.