PROVINCIAL CAPITOL, Antipolo, Rizal – As the first female chief executive of the province, Rizal Gov. Nini Ynares leads in the various activities aimed at protecting and empowering women constituents. For all the good reasons, she uses the “power mandated to her by her province mates to propel the province and its people to greater heights of progress and development. As the nation celebrates Women’s Month with the theme, “Juana, Ang Tatag Mo ay Tatag Natin sa Pagbangon at Pagsulong”, the provincial government of Rizal, through the stewardship of Gov. Ynares, is presently conducting various activities primarily to engage, educate and empower the women of the province. On all Saturdays of March, from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm, the Provincial Health Office (PHO) and the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) are conducting various activities in all provincial government-run hospitals in the province. On top of these activities are free medical missions, medical consultations, breast examination, women’s assistance desk and lectures on health topics on maternal and child care, social welfare and nutrition. According to Gov. Ynares, support teams from the PHO and PSWDO are assigned in six hospitals of the province to assist medical doctors and other support staff of the hospitals in catering to those who are undergoing various medical examinations and lectures on health, maternal and child care topics. “The provincial government is committed to provide our women, particularly those within the spectrum of the marginalized sector, with the skills and confidence necessary to get a job, create a healthy lifestyle, and the basic knowledge and education for them to fully understand their basic human rights,” remarked Gov. Ynares.