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Headlines July 13, 2021
Here are some of the top stories we’re following for Tuesday, July 13, 2021.
Damian Giletto, Wochit
He helped bring hope to those in Delaware in need of medical care.
Dr. Jose Castro Pamintuan, who died last month, leaves a legacy in which he provided new health care opportunities to the people of Kent and Sussex counties, including co-founding Dover’s Hope Medical Clinic.
“Dr. Pamintuan was one of the primary care volunteer physicians at the Hope Clinic for over 10 years,” said Dr. Vicenta P. G. Marquez, a co-founder of the Hope Medical Clinic. “He was very kind, compassionate and an excellent clinician.”
Though Pamintuan was a cardiologist by training, Marquez said he was a general practitioner at Hope because of their clientele.
“He treated all patients the same way as if they were his private patients,” she said. “Also, he genuinely catered to each patient trying to understand the whole patient – soul, mind and body.”
Born in the Philippines to a school teacher and homemaker, both of whom were also farmers, Pamintuan excelled at San Fernando High School where his obituary said he earned a seat at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine.
After receiving his medical degree in 1961, he traveled to the United States to further his education, completing a postdoctoral fellowship in…