Alturas conducts Operation Free Tuli

After the success of Alturas “Eye Love You” Eye Care Program, the Alturas Group of Companies (AGC), through its Alay Marcela Foundation, will conduct another worthwhile medical outreach program, the “Operation: Libreng Tuli”, scheduled these summer months of April and May in the different barangays of Bohol.

The first of the series of free circumcision of AGC was scheduled April 26, in Brgy. Poblacion, Cortes, where a total of 80 patients, mostly young children accompanied by their parents, availed themselves of libreng tuli with free post-operation medicines, through the coordination of the Cortes Rural Health Unit (RHU).

Another Alturas Operation Libreng Tuli happened April 27, in Brgy. Lincod, Maribojoc, where there were 34 patients who availed themselves free circumcision through the coordination of Barangay Health Workers (BWS) of Lincod who also facilitated for the pre-listing registration.

Other schedules of free circumcision of AGC are May 3, Catagbacan Norte, Loon; May 4, Alturas Mall, Tagbilaran City; May 17, Cabatang, Alicia; May 18, Gabi, Ubay; May 24, Alturas-Talibon; May 25, Canhayupon, Dimiao; May 26, Tabalong, Dauis; May 27, Bolod, Panglao; and May 28, Tultugan, Calape.

The objective of Alturas Operation Libreng Tuli is to help the poor parents avail the free circumcision of their children and the free medicine for the recovery and healing of the wound.

Circumcision or tuli has a long historical tradition in the Philippines, and regarded as an obligatory rite of passage to manhood. Those who have not undergone the ritual are ridiculed and labelled pisot by their peers. According to medical studies, the smegma (tiktik) that accumulates at the neck of the glans penis can cause cervical cancer.