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The Ofcial News Bulletin of the Center for Health Development IV-B (MIMAROPA)

Usec. Herbosa Director Balboa Former Mayor Adier

 Posing the challenge of making the “bigger dent” in health status in the country,

Undersecretary Teodoro Herbosa pushed for clearer engagement and greater teamwork 

among key players in the health system through converting and utilizing data into droplets

of wisdom in the 1st Luzon Zonal Meeting in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, April 27.

Undersecretary Herbosa, whose experiece is heavily exposed to the development of trauma system

and emergency training in the Philippines, emphasized the development of data into knowledge

 products towards the fulllment of the Universal Health Care.

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“Love your doctors!”

This was emphasized by former Aborlan Mayor Celsa Adier and executive assistant of Palawan

Governor Abraham Kahlil Mitra as she graced the opening ceremonies in front of approximately

100 chiefs of hospital, bureau directors, regional directors and assistant regional directors. Ms.

Adier shared nuggets of experiences in the communities of Palawan on how local government units

and communities treat doctors as modern-day local heroes.

On the other hand, relating the list of scheduled discussions on health emergency management and

disaster risk response, Director Gloria J. Balboa of Center for Health Development IVB asserted

 pride in Palawan as the safest place in the country in terms of disaster.

Present also in the Luzon Zonal Meeting were DOH stalwarts Assistant Secretaries Paulyn Jean

Ubial, Elmer Punzalan and Enrique Tayag, who also presented the topic on enhancing surveillance

for new direction.

The event was also attended by parties headed by Director Valeriano Lopez of Ilocos Region,

Director Tita Callueng of Cagayan Valley Region, Dr. Edna Abcede of Central Luzon, Director 

Juanito Taleon of CALABARZON, Dr. Virgilio Ludovice of Bicol Region, Director Myrna

Cabotaje of Cordillera Administrative Region, Director Irma Asuncion of the National Capital

Region, Visayas Zonal Coordinator Director Susana Madarieta of Central Visayas, Mindanao Zonal

Coordinator Director Teogenes Baluma of Davao and different health sector partners.

The event was hosted by the Health Service Delivery Cluster staff and Region IV-B MIMAROPA.

TurningData into‘Gold’

CHD IV-B (MIMAROPA)

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Isla MIMAROPA The 1st Luzon Zonal Meeting Edition

“Kalusugan sa mga Isla, Kayamanan ng MIMAROPA”

April 28, 2011 * Puerto Princesa City, Palawan

 Merging wit, plans, program updates and cultural entertainment, the delegates of the 1st 

 Luzon Zonal Meeting brought together health agenda, concerns and creativity into one total 

 package as it culminates the rst day of dialogues with info-tainment value.

Assistant Secretary Enrique Tayag started off with the updates on event-based surveillance and

response. As highlighted by Dr. Tayag, such surveillance “complements indicator-based surveillance

which are both systems are essential components of a single national surveillance system so as to

 provide input or valuable feedback to policy makers which may be useful for policy development,

 program redirection or changes in treatment protocols.”

On the other hand, Director Eduardo Janairo of the National Center for Disease prevention and

Control proposed the transformation of program managers to outcome managers and from program

coordinators to program experts and convenors in order to lead and synchronize efforts in disease

 prevention and control towards healthy families and communities.

In order to drive DOH into a peak performing organization and to realize the fulllment of its

reknowned directions, Dr. Janet Fandino consulted the delegates to engage in their study to set the

culture of competencies where DOH employees are learning, growing and working together and

ultimately, institutionalizing an HRMD system that shall be directed towards achieving the quality of 

life, productivity, human resources for health satisfaction and development and readiness to change.

Acknowledging that the Provincial Investment Plan for Health gave an impetus towards rapid

improvements in local government units’ planning process for health, Director Lilibeth David of 

the Bureau of Local Health Assistance and Development urged delegates to address the weak areas

of the current process specically on improveming efciency and quality of the PIPH by reducing

 performance disparity.

Meanwhile Dr. Cecile Gatan-Magturo worked on addressing the gaps in response to climate change by

recognizing health as the “bottom line,’ identifying the health sector as a priority for adaptation support

from global to local levels and promoting health as a central criteria for supporting mitigation policies.

Dr. Manuel Ponce followed suit and provided the avenue for the delegates to discuss critical issues on

the policy issuances of DOH.

Lastly, Mayor Edward Hagedorn entertained the delegates with a cultural presentation and the journey

of Puerto Princesa to where it is now - a premier local government unit advocating environmental

 preservation and protection at its helm.

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Info-taining:Plans andCreativitycombined

The ISLA MiMaRoPa serves

as a communicaon tool

for the region in response

to the call for an eecve,

ecient and equitable health

system through responsible

informaon disseminaon.

 Luzon Zonal Meeting’s

 frst day ends in a

cultural blast; Mayor 

 Edward Hagedorn

charms the night out 

with Palawan’s Climate

Change adaptation