By Perfecto T. Raymundo, Jr.
PASIG CITY – Former Pasig City Councilor Junjun Concepcion on Wednesday (Sept. 11) explained his presence and is proud of having joined the medical mission of the St. Gerard Charity Foundation (SGC) since September of last year.
During the Kapihan sa Metro East Media Forum organized by the PaMaMariSan-Rizal Press Corps and supported by Pinoy Ako advocacy group, Concepcion explained that he is oftentimes seen during the medical mission of couple Curlee Discaya and Sarah Discaya.
Concepcion has been a Pasig City Councilor for two terms and with a total of 20 years in public service and started as No. 1 Kagawad in 2002. He ran for Barangay Chairman of Barangay 207 in Barangay Maybunga and an Awardee for Best Barangay Governance in 2016 and 2019 as No. 1 City Councilor of District 2.
He is very vocal that he will be coming back as City Councilor of District 2 in the May 2025 mid-term elections. Concepcion is a businessman and a contractor himself.
Concepcion is personally supporting the advocacy of the couple Kuya Curlee and Ate Sarah of the St. Gerard Charity Foundation.
Since September 2023, Concepcion has joined the medical mission of the SGC Charity Foundation, noting that, the medical mission has started since 2016.
He admitted that he has been joining the medical mission of the SGC Charity Foundation since September last year because he has seen the vision and advocacy of the SGC Charity Foundation for the last couple of years.
Concepcion has personally seen how the SGC Charity Foundation in providing medical mission to Pasiguenos, saying that, he even joined the medical mission in District 1 of Pasig City.
“There’s no perfect local governance,” he said, adding that, 1,200 people benefitted in the medical mission of SGC Charity Foundation in District 2.
This coming Saturday (Sept. 14), Concepcion said, a medical mission will be conducted in Barangay Maybunga with ECG, and people bitten by dogs are the frequent beneficiaries of the medical mission of the SGC Charity Foundation.
Concepcion noted that three shots are needed to treat people bitten by stray dogs, and the SGC Charity Foundation is shouldering the two shots of the three shots of vaccines needed.
He reminisced the Solo Parents Act Ordinance in the City Council and he pushed that one of the children of the Solo Parents should be a “Iskolar ng Bayan”, saying that, through a City Ordinance, it would be of big help for the benefit of the Pasiguenos.
A mobile patrol car is practical for the services rendered to Pasiguenos in terms of peace and order in the city.
In his own observation, Concepcion said that the Pasiguenos have missed the “medical mission” such that there seems to be deficit in medicines so much so that the medical mission of SGC Charity Foundation is being deluged by Pasiguenos so much so that many barangays such as Kalawaan are requesting for a “second wave” of the medical mission already extended to them.
He explained that a certificate of indigency and medical abstract are needed in order to avail of the medical mission so much so that not everyone can be accommodated in the medical mission.
The TODA (Tricycle Operators and Drivers Associations) sector are also requesting for a medical mission for them taking into consideration not to inconvenience others in the process.
Concepcion vowed that he would help even if the Committee on Health was not assigned to him, saying that he would focus on “zero bill” for the indigent patients, as well as in education, if he will be given another chance to serve as City Councilor in 2025 given his track record and experience in public service in the past 20 years already.
“Kalinga sa Barangay” should be institutionalized for “better passing” for more better improvement. More scholars and love the educational sector as he has been known as “man on the street” in the sense that he has heard and listened to the stories of the Pasiguenos themselves.
Concepcion could not avoid to travel around the city, specifically in District 2 and even District 1 to support the project, to support the event of Ate Sarah and Kuya Curlee of the SGC Charity Foundation in their medical mission.
If what you are doing is a “passion”, he said, it is like that you love what you are doing such that he has been traveling around Pasig City and returned home late at night, wherein he heard people say that “Konsi missed ka na namin. Balik ka na”.
“The people will not understand that the work of the City Council is Legislative,” Concepcion said.
Kuya Curlee and Ate Sarah are “perfect couple” for Concepcion as they have shown that they came from the poorest of the poor until blessings came to them as they also help the poor and the unfortunate members of the community.
In fairness, Concepsion said that the City Government does not prohibit the conduct of medical mission and through coordination with the barangay such medical mission is properly conducted.
For example in Barangay Maybunga, Concepcion said, the local street vendors and local service providers are invited to go to the venue of the medical mission and they were able to practice their profession.
Concepcion would not deny that he would be back as City Councilor in 2025, as he has been saying since 2022, “Si Junjun kayang makipagtrabaho.”
He stressed that he would be seen oftentimes during the medical mission of SGC Charity Foundation of Kuya Curlee and Ate Sarah.
