The Bataan General Hospital has successfully relaunched its Public Health Programs through a Service Delivery Network meeting which was held on May 17, 2017 at the BGH conference room. The said event was attended by different municipal health officers, chiefs of hospitals, public health nurses and rural health midwives in the Province of Bataan. Dr. Glory V. Baltazar, Medical Center Chief II, gave her welcome remarks wherein she reminded the attendees on the three guarantees of the Philippine Health Agenda namely All Life Stages and Triple Burden of Disease, Service Delivery Network and Universal Health Insurance in the attainment of All Health-related Sustainable Development Goals and also to achieve the goals of financial risk protection, better health outcomes and responsiveness.
On the other hand, Mr. Romeo C. Tuazon Jr., Health Education & Promotion Officer, presented to the body the 12 Legacies of the Department of Health which serve as the indicators in the achievement of Universal Health Care for all Pilipinos. Further, Mr. Tuazon discussed the facts and figures in relation to BGH’s services, its ongoing health projects such as Medical Specialist (MS) on Wheels and Mobile Blood Donation, schedule of Medical Specialists at OPD, updates on the infrastructure, new services like the Physical Rehabilitation Unit and sooner the Hemodialysis unit and lastly the upcoming Surgical Caravan which is intended for NHTS/TSEKaP beneficiaries which will be held on June 23 of this year.
Thereafter, Dr. Baltazar discussed to the body the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between BGH and its active partners such as rural health units and district hospitals in Bataan which aimed in strengthening the service delivery network and also in promoting and implementing of different Public Health programs.
The following are the public health programs that were relaunched:
Adolescent and Youth Health Program
AIDS, STI & Viral Hepatitis Prevention & Control Program (Bataan HAVEN)
Breastfeeding TSEK (Lactation Station)
Dental Health Program (Dental Clinic)
Expanded Program on Immunization
Essential Newborn Care (Unang Yakap)
Family Planning
Health Education and Promotion Program
Infectious Disease Control Program
Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses
Newborn Hearing
Newborn Screening
Non-Communicable Disease Control Program (Cancer, Stroke, Diabetes, Heart and Lung diseases)
Nutrition Program (Nutrition-Dietetics Service)
Occupational Health Program (Employee’s Clinic)
Prevention of Blindness Program (Eye Care Center)
Rabies Prevention and Control Program (Animal Bite Treatment Center)
Smoking Cessation Program (Smoking Cessation Clinic)
Tuberculosis Control Program (TB-DOTS and STC for MDR-TB)
Under Five and Child Health
Voluntary Blood Services Program (Blood Bank)
Women and Child Protection Program (WCP Unit)
Women’s Health and Safe Motherhood