Dauis' first hospital and a new town hall have topped Mayor Miriam Sumaylo's social services and infrastructure agenda while addressing other prime concerns like water in her fresh term. The hospital project, a vital facility never possessed by the island municipality, is welcomed by the Dauisanons with the imminent relocation of the Gov. Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital (GCGMH) to Cortes. Bohol's biggest government hospital supervised by the Department of Health (DOH), the GCGMH is in Tagbilaran City where indigent patients from practically across the province seek treatment, including those referred from rural hospitals and health centers. Dauis is the island town nearest to the city in mainland Bohol and its planned hospital, once materialized, can also serve the people of Panglao where a hospital is likewise an absent health care facility.

The two towns occupy the famous tourist Panglao island, where the new Bohol airport is soon to rise. Sumaylo's administration with Vice Mayor Luciano Bongalos is bent on erecting a P30 million new municipal government center after portions of the existing town hall, including the mayor's ground floor office, cracked to the earthquake. A nationally-declared heritage site, the church near the town hall was also destroyed during the 7.2 magnitude tremor. Once the new one rises on a nearby lot occupied by the municipal tennis court, the old municipal building will house national field offices or at the same time be used as a museum or for economic enterprise, the mayor said. Dauis' annual budget this year amounts to P98 million, the mayor said. Sumaylo has constructed a new covered court for sports, cultural and other community affairs, with bleachers up for completion in May or June.

The hospital will stand on the site of the new berthing center near the central elementary school. The lady chief executive has acted on water insufficiency in certain areas since her assumption last July. She is improving the streetlights especially in Poblacion to make it what she calls a “glowing center,” her town being the gate from mainland province via Tagbilaran City to the whole Panglao Island. Sumaylo vowed to maintain transparency and accountability in the dealings of her administration, spending within the ceiling while faithful in revenue generation that redounds to the good of many. This precisely explains for the LGU's first official quarterly publication by the fitting name Dauis Transparency Bulletin, which maiden issue is soon out. In his message, Gov. Edgar Chatto commended the Sumaylo leadership for it, saying no accounting of public service is more apt than spotlighting to the people the workings of their government.

Citizens ought to have access to essential informations about how government prioritizes, decides and executes its multi-faceted mandate, Chatto said. “The newsletter responds to this constituent yearning.” The governor said the bulletin impresses upon the people the shared responsibility of community-building as it motivates them to participate in governance for their own welfare. Servants in the government do need to communicate and account to the public because as such, they are just depositories of their trust, said Chatto, saluting to the want of the first lady Dauis mayor for a credible affair with the people. (Ven rebo Arigo)