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A letter from Benguet No.6 : February 6, 2009
More Midwives Trained on Integrated Maternal And Childhood Illness Training
This training aims to enhance the capabilities of frontline health workers on the integrated approach of managing childhood illnesses among children under five. This follows the training package on IMCI developed by the WHO and UNICEF for health workers. The IMCI strategy reduces frequency, severity of illness and disability of children, so to contribute to the development of children. There were 20 Rural Health Midwives from 13 municipalities, who participated in the training on January 19-30, 2009 at Prince Plaza Hotel, Baguio City and Baguio General Hospital. This 11-day-training course included among others the understanding of the content of the 7 modules, doing some written exercises followed by individual feed backing with the facilitator, video exercise, role plays, prompt discussion to strengthen their knowledge on IMCI. Outpatient sessions and inpatient sessions at Baguio General Hospital were included to improve their skills.
(These photos show on-site clinical training at Baguio General Hospital.)
Assessing the Child Counselling the mother
After the training, everyone considered the training as useful for their management of childhood illnesses when they go back to their respective areas of assignment. They were thankful that they were given the opportunity to be trained on IMCI. . It is expected that all trained health workers will be implementing the IMCI strategy to reduce the morbidity and mortality among children less than 5 years old.
An Ambulance for BLIISTT ILHZ
A Mitsubishi brand new Ambulance was donated to BLIISTT ILHZ by JICA and a turn-over ceremony was held at the Provincial Capitol on February 2 right after the regular flag ceremony, with attendance of Governor, Vice-Governor, JICA Consultants, and provincial office staff. This Ambulance will be utilized for BLIISTT ILHZ, and operation and maintenance expense will be paid out of the Common Health Trust Fund contributed by member municipalities of the ILHZ.
(L-R) Vice Governor Crescencio Pacalso, Governor Nestor Fongwan and Shuji Noguchi
Also, an X-ray machine will be donated to Abatan Emergency Hospital. Its installation is expected to be completed no later than March 2009 and start serving Mountain Trail ILHZ.
So Far, So Good!”
Dir. Myrna Cabotaje |
A midterm review was jointly undertaken by the team composed of members from JICA Tokyo and the Philippine side represented by CHD-CAR on January 2009. The findings show that various indicators in the PDM had improvements, and the project has produced satisfactory results, in terms of five evaluation criteria, except impact and sustainability, which are hard to be measured at the midterm of the project implementation. Dr.Cabotaje(Director/CHD-CAR) addressed that remarkable progress made in Benguet needed to be expanded and disseminated to other provinces in CAR.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Benguet Provincial Capitol Poblacion, La Trinidad , Benguet 2601 Tel. No. (074) 422-3223 Telefax: (074) 422-2004 Website: www.benguet.gov.ph
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