A GROUP of Filipino-American nurses based in Michigan, U.S.A. is donating a state-of-the-art ambulance to the city of Dagupan.

The donation will be made by officers and members of the Far Eastern and American Nurses Association (FANA) of Great Lakes Michigan, who are set to conduct a medical mission here January 21 to 24.

The ambulance, which already arrived in Manila, is set to be turned over by the group to Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. sometime next week.

City health officer Leonard Carbonell said the ambulance comes ‘loaded’ with a complete stock of life-saving equipment such as cardiac monitor, defibrillator, echo-cardiogram and dialysis machines, oxygen, and ventilator among others.

Aside from the ambulance, the group will also donate assorted medicines and medical supplies.

The mayor expressed his thanks and gratitude to the FANA led by its president Angela Bedia. He said their donation will further improve the city government’s basic health care delivery.

FANA members, composed of some 125 Filipino and American surgeons, doctors, medical specialists and dentists are set to arrive in the city on January 20 for their four-day medical, dental and surgical mission.

They will attend to patients in Dagupan City at the People’s Astrodome. (PNA)