Sec. Dayrit: Surigao Norte, pilot center nationwide on healthcare
(February 2, 2018)
One-time Department of Health (DOH) Sec. Manuel Dayrit, revealed that the province of Surigao del Norte through the bright auspices of Gov. Sol Matugas championed the recognition as the pilot center all over the Philippines, representing the entire Mindanao Mindanao in terms of universal healthcare system.
It should be recalled that the province also bested others as the heart of full-blast implementation of Service Delivery Network Cuban Polyclinic Model which is now ripe for realization.
Distinguished specialists, top-performing experts and prolific intellectuals from the Ateneo de Manila led by Sec. Dayrit convened at the Expanded PGO Conference Hall last Feb. 2, 2018, for the Comprehensive Review and Dialogue of Omnibus Health Policies.
Said meeting was jointly presided by Vice Gov Junjun Egay and OIC Provincial Human Resources Officer Atty. Zander Plaza. Also present were Provincial Health Officer Dr Arlene Felizarta and Provincial Tourism Coordinator Ivonnie Dumadag.
According to Sec. Dayrit, the extensive and absolute execution of the Polyclinic Model must be staged properly in order to effectively improve medical operations and assistance to indigent patients in terms of free annual check-up at the district hospitals, medicare units and infirmaries to perfect the Cuban experience.
Sec. Dayrit explained that in Cuba, which is a socialist republic, the government takes care of the people, albeit the meager salary of physicians and nurses who do not grumble and remonstrate because they were duty-bound to stop medical malpractice.
Meanwhile, Atty Plaza said that the DOH must supplement and augment the hospital manpower in support of the local government. He also scrutinized the procedural guidelines, courses of action, implementing policies and substantive data in every municipality in order to give justice to the round-table dialogue.
For the Visayas Region, Sec. Dayrit cited Northern Samar while La Union was the target hub in Luzon.
Healthy exchange of meaningful insights were directed to the following bare essentials and core foundations, namely: 1. medicine access; 2. health facilities; 3. manpower complement of DOH; and 4.training of health personnel.
On the part of Dr. Felizarta, she admitted that ‘her office is having a hard time addressing the concerns of Geographically Displaced Areas, which body opined as tolerable and manageable.’
Dr. Felizarta said that Panambay sa Barangay has been initiated since the Governor’s first day in office to squarely address the problem, through free vaccination, medicine distribution, medical mission, free surgical operation and free dental procedure. Another plus is the Eyecare Services wherein people can easily avail of free eye check-up and cataract operation as well as distribution of free eyeglasses sponsored by the Fred Hollows Foundation International.
Also elaborated and included in the comprehensive deliberation were the hiring and deployment of outsourced doctors, and sisterhood agreement with the Vicente Sotto Memorial Hospital which has been going on successfully for years now.
In addition, the residency program also tackled services which must be rendered by fresh graduates and medical board passers to LGUs pursuant to A.O. No. 2015-21. Vice Gov. Egay said that the take-home pay of nurses and doctors where amplified so that they will stay in their respective workstations. In so doing, ‘the exodus shall be averted because they will not be tempted to seek green pastures elsewhere.’
To top it all Sec. Dayrit also recapitulated the entire convergence by sharing his in-depth analysis in relation to project completion, state-of-the-art facilities and world-class amenities, fund distribution by virtue of the Government Appropriations Act, financial assistance, and safety nets to guarantee that medicines dispensed have not expired. He also went over the salient points of the Annual Procurement Plan, consignment and medicine supply to combat infectious and communicable diseases like influenza, pneumonia, dengue, hypertension, cardio-vascular diseases and tuberculosis, among others.
by: John Glenn Platil
One-time Department of Health (DOH) Sec. Manuel Dayrit, revealed that the province of Surigao del Norte through the bright auspices of Gov. Sol Matugas championed the recognition as the pilot center all over the Philippines, representing the entire Mindanao Mindanao in terms of universal healthcare system.
It should be recalled that the province also bested others as the heart of full-blast implementation of Service Delivery Network Cuban Polyclinic Model which is now ripe for realization.
Distinguished specialists, top-performing experts and prolific intellectuals from the Ateneo de Manila led by Sec. Dayrit convened at the Expanded PGO Conference Hall last Feb. 2, 2018, for the Comprehensive Review and Dialogue of Omnibus Health Policies.
Said meeting was jointly presided by Vice Gov Junjun Egay and OIC Provincial Human Resources Officer Atty. Zander Plaza. Also present were Provincial Health Officer Dr Arlene Felizarta and Provincial Tourism Coordinator Ivonnie Dumadag.
According to Sec. Dayrit, the extensive and absolute execution of the Polyclinic Model must be staged properly in order to effectively improve medical operations and assistance to indigent patients in terms of free annual check-up at the district hospitals, medicare units and infirmaries to perfect the Cuban experience.
Sec. Dayrit explained that in Cuba, which is a socialist republic, the government takes care of the people, albeit the meager salary of physicians and nurses who do not grumble and remonstrate because they were duty-bound to stop medical malpractice.
Meanwhile, Atty Plaza said that the DOH must supplement and augment the hospital manpower in support of the local government. He also scrutinized the procedural guidelines, courses of action, implementing policies and substantive data in every municipality in order to give justice to the round-table dialogue.
For the Visayas Region, Sec. Dayrit cited Northern Samar while La Union was the target hub in Luzon.
Healthy exchange of meaningful insights were directed to the following bare essentials and core foundations, namely: 1. medicine access; 2. health facilities; 3. manpower complement of DOH; and 4.training of health personnel.
On the part of Dr. Felizarta, she admitted that ‘her office is having a hard time addressing the concerns of Geographically Displaced Areas, which body opined as tolerable and manageable.’
Dr. Felizarta said that Panambay sa Barangay has been initiated since the Governor’s first day in office to squarely address the problem, through free vaccination, medicine distribution, medical mission, free surgical operation and free dental procedure. Another plus is the Eyecare Services wherein people can easily avail of free eye check-up and cataract operation as well as distribution of free eyeglasses sponsored by the Fred Hollows Foundation International.
Also elaborated and included in the comprehensive deliberation were the hiring and deployment of outsourced doctors, and sisterhood agreement with the Vicente Sotto Memorial Hospital which has been going on successfully for years now.
In addition, the residency program also tackled services which must be rendered by fresh graduates and medical board passers to LGUs pursuant to A.O. No. 2015-21. Vice Gov. Egay said that the take-home pay of nurses and doctors where amplified so that they will stay in their respective workstations. In so doing, ‘the exodus shall be averted because they will not be tempted to seek green pastures elsewhere.’
To top it all Sec. Dayrit also recapitulated the entire convergence by sharing his in-depth analysis in relation to project completion, state-of-the-art facilities and world-class amenities, fund distribution by virtue of the Government Appropriations Act, financial assistance, and safety nets to guarantee that medicines dispensed have not expired. He also went over the salient points of the Annual Procurement Plan, consignment and medicine supply to combat infectious and communicable diseases like influenza, pneumonia, dengue, hypertension, cardio-vascular diseases and tuberculosis, among others.
by: John Glenn Platil
