CLEAN-UP DRIVE

Who says doctors are all prim and proper? We can get down and dirty too!

Waking up from one’s slumber isn’t always a pleasant one, but waking up to something you have the need to do speaks volumes of one’s character.. Waking up to the early hours of January 12, chilly breeze blowing from the shore, sun still inching it’s way up the sky, duty awaits. Time to go physician-garbage collector! Kidding aside, it might not seem significant to some, but it makes all the difference one can think of when it concerns the health and well-being of a population. Diseases ranging from typhoid to dengue to cholera to influenza can be attributed to a person’s practice of cleanliness, hence, it should be in a community’s initiative to uphold.

Motibot is, in my opinion, a steadfast community but as in other communities, it isn’t perfect. No matter how progressive and quaint it might seem to strangers passing through the highway, one can count on the fact that despite the municipality’s ordinances, there will still be flaws. One flaw, in which this writing is concerned of is the issue of cleanliness.

Along the road, we see functional MRFs. But, along the gutters, we saw an eyesore of varieties of trash: candy wrappers, papers, worn out footwear, diapers,plastic bottles, you name it With our gloved hands, it was time to dive into shrubs, canals and pebbles to retrieve filth to fill our bags which, amazingly, didn’t take long to fill up from a small area of the neighborhood. Desensitization was a blessing though we weren’t completely sold if our gloves endured because it was rubber but latex and it took a while before some of us realized that our hands were getting all wet and moist on the inside. Could it be from sweat? The mystery still remains.

The experience was fulfilling.The fact that we were all out rapport, putting up our best faces and strong attributes of ADZU’s brand of medical students, it was our way of showing the residents our seriousness and dedication to make clean and healthy living a total possibility. Furthermore, we wanted to impart that it takes a whole community to work together to make Motibot the cleanest and healthiest community it could possibly be even if it means diving into filth to do the job.


Andrei P. San Luis
ADZU SOM, Level 1