MEMBERS OF the Zamboanga City Barangay Health Emergency Response Teams (BHERTs) have completed 5-day training and workshop in an effort to strengthen their capacity as the local government continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic.
Mayor Beng Climaco urged the different BHERTs to heighten its efforts in helping to contain, control and prevent the spread of Covid-19 in their respective areas. She spoke to BHERT members during the training organized by the local government and the United States Agency for International Development ReachHealth Project and RTI International.
Climaco thanked the U.S. Government for its continued support to the local government.
She cited anew the crucial role played by BHERTs in Covid-19 response, praising the frontliners for their dedication in serving the public despite the dangers posed by the coronavirus to their own health.
The training which was also participated by the Department of the Interior and Local Government and City Health Office tackled the following modules: Covid-19 and Epidemiology; Policy, guidelines and Ethico-Legal Issues and EOs and ordinances; Classification of Covid-19 cases and actions to be taken; Assessment of BHERT functionality, composition and roles and functions of BHERT.
And understanding contact tracing, BHERT's monitoring and recording roles; Monitoring of close contacts; Data management; Guidelines for conducting routine household visits during COVID-19 pandemic and Infection prevention and control among others.
Just recently, Climaco recognized the sacrifices of the BHERT members and other health workers who are in the frontline of the local government’s Covid-19 response and other campaigns, including the concluded anti-polio drive.
She said the hard work of health workers ensure the protection of everybody against diseases, especially in the anti-polio campaign. “We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all our health workers and medical frontliners for their sacrifices and hard work amidst unprecedented public pandemic to immunize our children,” Climaco said.
Health workers underwent a series of orientation on the minimum health standards, as well as infection control protocols amid the coronavirus pandemic prior to the start of the anti-polio program, according to the mayor.
The local government, in collaboration with the Department of Health and World Health Organization, recently concluded the “Sabayang Patak Kontra Polio Round 3” after extending the program for a few days to allow health workers ample time to conduct intensive vaccination in different barangays that were placed under lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The anti-polio drive began July 20, with health workers trekking through dirt roads and far-flung areas - rain or shine - in order to vaccinate children aged 0 to 119 months old in all 98 barangays here.
Despite challenges in the implementation due to Covid-19, the vaccination drive, which ended August 9, was a success.
In the last anti-polio drive in February, the local government vaccinated 221,917 children – more than 8% from the target. In September 2019, the DOH announced a polio outbreak in the Philippines and launched a synchronized polio vaccination campaign which aims to boost immunization coverage against polio by giving three doses of the oral polio vaccine to all children regardless of their immunization status. (Zamboanga Post)
Mayor Beng Climaco urged the different BHERTs to heighten its efforts in helping to contain, control and prevent the spread of Covid-19 in their respective areas. She spoke to BHERT members during the training organized by the local government and the United States Agency for International Development ReachHealth Project and RTI International.
Climaco thanked the U.S. Government for its continued support to the local government.
She cited anew the crucial role played by BHERTs in Covid-19 response, praising the frontliners for their dedication in serving the public despite the dangers posed by the coronavirus to their own health.
The training which was also participated by the Department of the Interior and Local Government and City Health Office tackled the following modules: Covid-19 and Epidemiology; Policy, guidelines and Ethico-Legal Issues and EOs and ordinances; Classification of Covid-19 cases and actions to be taken; Assessment of BHERT functionality, composition and roles and functions of BHERT.
And understanding contact tracing, BHERT's monitoring and recording roles; Monitoring of close contacts; Data management; Guidelines for conducting routine household visits during COVID-19 pandemic and Infection prevention and control among others.
Just recently, Climaco recognized the sacrifices of the BHERT members and other health workers who are in the frontline of the local government’s Covid-19 response and other campaigns, including the concluded anti-polio drive.
She said the hard work of health workers ensure the protection of everybody against diseases, especially in the anti-polio campaign. “We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all our health workers and medical frontliners for their sacrifices and hard work amidst unprecedented public pandemic to immunize our children,” Climaco said.
Health workers underwent a series of orientation on the minimum health standards, as well as infection control protocols amid the coronavirus pandemic prior to the start of the anti-polio program, according to the mayor.
The local government, in collaboration with the Department of Health and World Health Organization, recently concluded the “Sabayang Patak Kontra Polio Round 3” after extending the program for a few days to allow health workers ample time to conduct intensive vaccination in different barangays that were placed under lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The anti-polio drive began July 20, with health workers trekking through dirt roads and far-flung areas - rain or shine - in order to vaccinate children aged 0 to 119 months old in all 98 barangays here.
Despite challenges in the implementation due to Covid-19, the vaccination drive, which ended August 9, was a success.
In the last anti-polio drive in February, the local government vaccinated 221,917 children – more than 8% from the target. In September 2019, the DOH announced a polio outbreak in the Philippines and launched a synchronized polio vaccination campaign which aims to boost immunization coverage against polio by giving three doses of the oral polio vaccine to all children regardless of their immunization status. (Zamboanga Post)
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