Ordinance on home care services for indigent PWDs approved

ILOILO. Iloilo City Councilor Candice Tupas in an interview with the media after the regular session at Iloilo City Hall on June 19. (Carolyn Jane Abello)
ILOILO. Iloilo City Councilor Candice Tupas in an interview with the media after the regular session at Iloilo City Hall on June 19. (Carolyn Jane Abello)

ILOILO City Council passed an ordinance to provide home care services to indigent persons with disabilities (PWDs) and senior citizens who are incapable in every barangays of the city.

Authored by city councilor Candice Tupas, the ordinance focuses to give appropriate care to the “bed ridden patients.”

“There are people or indigents who doesn’t have anyone to help them,” said Tupas in an interview with the media after the City Council’s regular session at Iloilo City Hall on June 19.

Tupas said that the home support service includes proper hygiene, vital signs and to check the sensorium of the patient.

As a chairman of health, sanitation and hospital services, Tupas expressed that it is their part to take care, monitor and prioritize these individuals.

To properly implement the ordinance, the council decided to make the local government units to lead the ordinance and will be spearheaded by barangay chairmen together with Tupas’ committee, offices of Persons with Disabilities Affairs, fiscal, Senior Citizens Affairs and youth sector.

There will be a task force which mainly designated in every barangays for the said ordinance that will be created by the city mayor.

Before they proceed in checking the patients, they will receive trainings that will handled by the City Health and City Social Welfare and Development Office.

The operations of the task force will be based to the usual schedule of barangay health workers.

“At least once a month but most of the time it is daily,” Tupas said.

She cited one of the fire incident that causes the death of a mother after she tried to save her child with special needs wherein, for Tupas’ perception, the accident can be avoided if the child was identified already.

“If we have identified these persons with disabilities and bed ridden patients, they will not be involve with such incidents because they will be the priority of the task force,” Tupas said. (Carolyn Jane Abello)

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