BAGUIO CITY --Access
to quality health care for every Filipino down to the remotest areas is among
the primary goals of the Philippine Health Agenda under President Rodrigo
Duterte.
Health
undersecretaries Herminigildo Valle and Gerardo Bayugo bared this assured
during the final national dissemination of the five year program, of JICA
and Department of Health – Cordillera dubbed
“Cordillera-wide Strengthening of the Local Health System for Effective
Delivery of Maternal and Child Health Services” here recently at Crown Legacy
Hotel.
Valle, in his message,
said the DOH is steadfast in its commitment to enhance capability of
local health services unit to deliver maternal, child and nutrition to the
poorest of the poor down to the remotest parts of the country.
The DOH, he said, will
continue to push for a continuing meaningful partnership such as this project
with JICA in the Cordillera that primarily focuses on maternal and child health
service delivery for the achievement of the health department’s slogan of “All
For Health, Towards Health For All”.
Part of the Philippine
health agenda, Valle outlined is to ensure that there will be competency -
based health workers in every barangay in the country- at least a registered
nurse and a licensed physician and dentist in every community health center.
Bayugo, said under DOH
12 Legacy Targets for the Phl Health Agenda, there will be a great impact on
scaling – up maternal and child health services in the country.
He reiterated DOH’s
call for continuing and meaningful partnership in ensuring happier, healthier
and safer Philippines.
The JICA – DOH
project in CAR started in 2012. It is focused mainly on capacity building
activities, both in terms of equipment and manpower, to ensure that government
hospitals, community health centers and barangay health stations can provide
efficient and effective Basic Maternal, Obstetrics and Neo-natal Care
Services.
The project has
yielded positive results with increase in the health facility based delivery
from 78 percent in 2012 to 92% in 2015 and greatly lowered the maternal
mortality rate from 71% per 100,000 live birth in 2012 to 45 % in 2015, which
is below the UN Millennium Development Goals target of 52%.
Valle and Bayugo led
regional DOH officials and provincial and municipal health workers and other
stakeholders in saying gains from the project will continue and help attain
government’s goal that no woman will die giving birth.
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