Capiz confab to discuss enhanced health care programs By Jemin B. Guillermo ROXAS CITY, Capiz, Oct. 2 (PIA6) - Health officials in the Visayas are in Capiz to further enhance the universal health care program of the government. Capiz Department of Health Representative Dr. Elmer Bucayan disclosed that the three-day meeting of Undersecretaries, Assistant Secretaries, Regional Director and Chiefs of retained DOH hospitals from Regions 6, 7 and 8 started October 1 with Visayas Cluster head Asec. Pauline Jean Rosell-Ubial. Aside from the health officials, regional directors and representatives from the health partner agencies, such as PhilHealth, Department of Social Welfare and Development as well as Department of Public Works and Highways likewise attended the activity, he said. He said that Health Secretary Enrique Ona is expected to arrive in Capiz, October 3 to attend the said meeting and inspect the various DOH-funded facilities such as the new Out-Patient Department of the Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital in Lanot, Roxas City, Rural Health Units of Panitan and President Roxas towns as well as the Balian District Hospital. Bucayan said that included in the discussion are the updates on the Kalusugan Pangkalahatan, particularly on the Health Facility Enhancement Program, Financial Risk Protection and Millennium Development Goals, among others, Engagement Mechanism for Universal Health Care and Scaling-up Integrated Neglected Tropical Disease Control in the Visayas. Discussions on Hospital Management Reforms, DOH standards on health facilities such as RHUs, barangay health stations and district and provincial hospitals, family planning strategy of the Center for Health Development XI and presentation of best practices supporting the Kalahatang Pangkalusugan goals will also be given focus, he said. Bucayan likewise said that hospitals’ accomplishments, particularly of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Hospital in Region 7, Western Visayas Sanitarium in Region 6 and Schistosomiasis Research and Control Hospital in Region 8 will be presented by their respective chiefs of hospital.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 05:25:28 +0000
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