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going beyond our duties
QC PROTEKTODO
Given the challenges posed by the pandemic, BPLD personnel went out of their way to provide service and
assistance to efforts of the Quezon City local government to fight the COVID-19 virus.
When the pandemic struck in March 2020, the BPLD immediately converted its BOSS facility into a mass
encoding operation for almost 380,000 DSWD-SAP beneficiaries in QC. This massive endeavor also entailed
encoding data for the city’s own Kalingang QC program, COVID-19 patients’ data from the Department of
Health (DOH), re-organizing various city databases, and even the issuance of travel passes.
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