New leprosy treatment facility in BARMM now open

COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Sectoral representatives and health workers together launched on Monday, April 6, a modern and bigger leprosy custodial facility in the compound of the Cotabato Sanitarium and General Hospital in Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao del Norte.

The new leprosy custodial facility in the CotSanGen Hospital in Barangay Pinaring in Sultan Kudarat, one of the 12 towns in Maguindanao del Norte province, is the first ever in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.