Red Cross to expand in Negros Oriental
The Red Cross national chairman Richard Gordon wants to set up one chapter each of Red Cross volunteers for the three congressional districts in Negros Oriental. Included in his vision is to provide ambulances in three Red Cross chapters in each district and organize working search and rescue teams, medical personnel to be able to immediately respond to calamities.
As an advocate of counterparting, Gordon assured each chapter half the amount of an ambulance donation from the Red Cross.
Gordon was in Negros Oriental to visit the municipality of La Libertad and the city of Guihulngan, where 55 homes were built by the Red Cross for victims of the recent earthquake.
The top man of the Philippine Red Cross declares he has the right to run as senator in the 2013 local and national elections.
Former Olongapo mayor and former senator Dick Gordon stressed he had been with the Red Cross since 45 years ago before joining politics, in response to insinuations he is using the organization in this year’s elections.
According to Gordon, politics is service, and Red Cross is service. However, if somebody uses the Red Cross for his personal gains, such as denying blood if not voted on, should be kicked out of the organization of volunteers, like what happened to a congressman who was former chairman of the Red Cross in Quezon City.--jg (by Choy Gallarde).
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