CEBU CITY. – For the first time, Palarong Pambansa athletes can expect “royal treatment” for their aches and pains — including emotional — as they compete in the country’s premier secondary and elementary meet.
Noted Cebu sports medicine physician Dr. Roel Dejano has assembled an outstanding team of doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, and sports psychologists to cope with the medical, health, body and psychological demands of the athletes.
On top of sending medical teams to various billeting, competition and training venues, Dejano has set up his command center and infirmary inside the Cebu City Sports Center to treat the various needs of the Palaro participants from as early as 6 o’clock in the morning until 10 p.m.
“These are innovations from the regular medical preparations for the Palaro. We are offering these services for free that are really for the first time in its history,” said Dejano, also a commissioner of the Cebu City Sports Commission.
Among those whom he has enlisted pro bono is noted orthopedic surgeon Dr. Dilbert Monicit and doctors from the Chong Hua Hospital, one of the major health care providers in Cebu.
