ARMM’s health secretary earns the Gawad Haydee Yorac for outstanding public service

Cotabato City- Dr. Kadil Sinolinding, Jr., regional secretary of the Depart of Health – Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DoH-ARMM), has been awarded this year’s Gawad Haydee Yorac for Outstanding Public Service for his exemplary and venerable work on health service by the Manila Electric Railroad And Light Company (Meralco) and the University of the Philippines.

Dr. Sinolinding is the first Filipino Muslim to receive the esteemed award founded in honor of the late Haydee Yorac, who is considered to be among the country’s respectable and dedicated public servants.

Now on its 4th year, the Gawad Haydee Yorac is conferred annually by Meralco in cooperation with the University of the Philippines to outstanding individual in public service whose personal qualities and personal lives are worth emulating.

Lawyer Naguib Sinarimbo, ARMM executive secretary, lauded Dr. Sinolinding for his works and for garnering the award.

He said the dedicated doctor is a pride to the people of the ARMM and boosts the reputation of the incumbent regional leadership.

The award body cites Dr. Sinolinding’s devotion of his more than 20 years of professional career to helping over a hundred thousand individuals in different parts of Mindanao especially those in remote and depressed communities. He helped organized medical outreach missions to several areas in Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Saranggani, Maguindanao and Sulu that others dared not visit.

He has also been known for his Vision 20/20 Cataract Charities Team which made eye surgery and other ophtalmological services available even to those who don’t have the means since 1991.

The award was given to Dr. Sinolinding on March 4, 2010 at Pasig City. He had been nominated by Dr. Angelo Ladub, an anesthesiologist at the Cotabato Regional and Medical Center in Cotabato City. (bpiarmm)