Role of barangay health workers crucial to disease prevention and management efforts in the communities

Rep. Sol Aragones of Laguna  said that the country’s current struggle with the dengue outbreak highlights the need to mandate the inclusion of health workers in every barangay to aid the Department of Health (DOH) in its disease prevention and management efforts.

The former TV journalist added that “the number of dengue cases, together with the other communicable and non-communicable diseases, continues to rise every year. Dengue cases, for example, have tripled this year compared to 93,200 cases last year.”

“If we want to win this battle against a national epidemic, we must start in the most basic unit of our society, and equip each barangay with health workers that can help the national government in addressing the continuous widespread of diseases,” stressed the lawmaker, who recently filed House Bill 3511 or the Barangay Health Worker Act. Read full story.

Photo source: Cong. Sol Aragones Facebook page 

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DTI’s Negosyo sa Barangay program attracted hundreds of budding and would-be entrepreneurs in Ilocos Norte town. Launched at the Paoay Civic Center in barangay Veronica, it has attracted around 350 budding and would-be entrepreneurs from the different barangays of the town.

As one of the flagship programs of the Department of Trade and Industry, the Negosyo sa Barangay (NSB) aims to empower underserved communities, and help them become successful entrepreneurs.

The program features a one-stop shop of DTI services for micro, small and medium enterprises, such as assisting them in business registration and how to boost their business skills. Read full story.

HELPING SMALL BUSINESSES. Residents of Paoay, Ilocos Norte participated in the "Negosyo sa Barangay" launching in Barangay Veronica, Paoay, Ilocos Norte on Tuesday (Aug. 27, 2019). The program aims to develop people in underserved communities to become successful entrepreneurs. (Photo courtesy of the DTI-Ilocos Norte Facebook Page)

Baguio City department heads told to go out and visit the barangays. Mayor Benjamin B. Magalong ordered department heads of the different offices of the local government to visit the various barangays twice a week to effectively and efficiently address the issues and concerns related to their duties and functions.

The city chief executive claimed that based on his dialogues with barangay officials, there seems to be a gap between the different offices of the local government and the barangays that significantly affects the efficient delivery of basic services to the people in the city barangays.

Under the mayor’s directive, each of the department heads should spend two half days in the barangays for them to be appraised of the problems in the communities related to the programs, projects and activities being handled by their departments and for them to address arising therefrom. Read full story.

53 barangays in the NCR declared as “drug-cleared” by the Regional Oversight Committee on Barangay Drug Clearing Program. This undertaking is in line with the Three-Pronged Approach of holistic anti-drug strategy adopted by the PDEA (Supply Reduction, Demand Reduction and Harm Reduction) as the national anti-drug campaign in building drug resistant communities

The newly declared drug-cleared barangays will be added to the two hundred and fifty-one (251) previously cleared barangays, making it a total of three hundred and four (304) drug-cleared barangays for the period of January to August of 2019. Read full story.

Quezon City barangay chairman released the wrong frogs in his desire to fight dengue in his barangay. A well-meaning barangay captain in Quezon City, who mistook cane toads for bullfrogs, errs in thinking his action can solve the dengue problem in his area. In fact, he likely creates a new problem.

Dengue has killed at least 800 in the country since January, prompting the Department of Health to declare dengue as national epidemic. In Quezon City alone, at least 3,500 were infected by dengue and at least 29 of them have died.

The barangay captain's move however triggered a backlash from netizens, citing that the frogs were invasive and releasing them along esteros might even be harmful to the environment. Watch video.

Plane disintegrates in mid-air before crashing into two Barangay Pansol resort houses. A medevac plane crashed in Barangay Pansol in Calamba City, Laguna on Sunday, broke up while still in the air, according to a regional official of the Office of Civil Defense on Monday.

"Nagpira-piraso ang eroplano sa air pa lang," Alex Masiglat, spokesperson of the Calabarzon-Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council and Region IV-A Office of Civil Defense, said in an interview on Dobol B sa News TV aired on GMA News TV.

According to a report by Manny Vargas on Dobol B sa News TV, parts of the 11-seater two-engine turbo prop plane landed in separate areas: Purok Dos, Purok  Tres, Purok Singko and a one-meter part of what is believed to be the plane's wing landed in Purok Dos. Watch video.

Bacolod City outstanding barangay tanods given citation by the City Peace and Order Council.  The awards given to the group and individual categories, the tanods in Barangay Singcang Airport won the group category while Tanod Carlo T. Moral of Barangay Villamonte won the individual category.

The winners for the 2019 Outstanding Barangay tanod are set to compete in the regional search in Iloilo City next month.

Vice Mayor and POC presiding chair El Cid Familiaran wished the tanods luck in an awarding rites during the regular POC meeting at the Bacolod City Government Center.

Members of the city search committee with representatives from the Bacolod City Police Office, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, Bureau of Fire, Regional Training Center 6, National Police Commission and the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office were recognized for their contributions in the evaluation process. Read full story.  

 

Photo credit: SunStar

Iloilo barangay captain electrocuted while fixing billboard. Barangay Captain Marcelo Malificiar, 56, of Zone 10, Cabatuan town expired several minutes after he was brought to Ramon Tabiana Memorial District Hospital in Cabatuan in the afternoon of Aug. 30, 2019.

Malificiar was fixing a signage of their booth at the Cabatuan Agro-Industrial Fair when the incident happened.

He stepped on an aluminum ladder to install their booth’s signage. But the ladder apparently touched a live wire of their extension cord.

A younger man who assisted Malificiar tried to save the victim from electrocution by allegedly kicking the ladder. He however landed face down. Read full story.

Palawan barangay tanods gets insurance protection while on duty. Around 231 tanod from 17 barangays of Aborlan have availed the Barangay Tanod Association (BATAS) Accident Insurance Card.

The insurance aims to provide financial assistance to barangay tanods who may get into accidents while on duty.

It provides burial insurance, expense benefit, medical reimbursement and permanent disability benefit. Read full story.

Filipino community sets up ‘barangay’ in Canadian city. A new community group in Winnipeg spent a day cleaning up their neighborhood — collecting garbage, cigarette butts and discarded needles — to make a safer path for students soon heading back to school.

The group, calling itself Barangay West End was formed about five months ago after the death of a teenager and focused their efforts around school yards and playgrounds.

It has 1,200 members on its Facebook page and over 100 of those are actively involved, says Fhem Manansala, one of its administrators. Read full story.

Members of Barangay West End picked up trash and needles on Saturday to make the neighborhood safer for kids. (Aidan Geary/CBC)

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