One minute rolling clinic for the indigenous people of Mindoro

About 1.3 million people live on Mindoro, a Philippine island barely 100 kilometers as the crow flies from the capital Manila. An estimated 275,000 of them belong to the indigenous Mangyan population (Philippine Statistic Authority, 2013). They live in seclusion in a traditional way as self-sufficient people or as unskilled workers on farms. Over the past few decades, immigrants from other Philippine islands have increasingly displaced them from the fertile coastal region to inaccessible mountainous regions (Helbing, J., 1996). In the remote villages of the Mangyans, little or only inadequate health services are offered (German Doctors, 2020). As a result, acute diseases such as pneumonia in children, skin diseases, worm infestations and severe diarrhea are widespread. The state facilities are located in the lowlands, so the Mangyans have to travel a long way and wait for long periods of time, because the lowland residents are given priority treatment. Many Mangyans do not have a birth certificate and are therefore further disadvantaged. Only with this official document do they have access to social benefits such as health insurance or school attendance. The "Rolling Clinic" project improves the health care of the indigenous Mangyan population in the remote villages of the island of Mindoro. It reduces the proportion of malnourished and undernourished children and reduces maternal and child mortality. The parallel training of local health workers helps to ensure that basic medical care is also secured in the long term.