THE Department of Health (DOH) Central Visayas is deploying more nurses, dentists and midwives to various barangay health centers in the region.
Around 1,800 health personnel took their oath of office before DOH Assistant Secretary Abdullah Dumama Jr. in a formal ceremony held Tuesday, July 2, 2019.
Dumama, in an interview, said the deployment of additional health personnel to barangays around the region was one of their measures in the implementation of the Universal Health Care Law.
“This is the answer to the promise of the President na dapat merong isang health personnel sa isang barangay. We may not be achieving all of that pero somehow we can now be managing more than we expected,” Dumama told reporters.
Dumama said they plan to deploy health personnel to barangays situated in Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas (Gida) in the region and to provide quality health services to residents living there.
“This is a clear manifestation that the Department of Health is really bent on implementing fully the Universal Health Care Law,” Dumama added.
Aside from Central Visayas, deployment of health personnel in barangays is also being implemented in different parts of the country.
Initially, the DOH 7 targetted having 2,200 health workers to be deployed to barangay and rural health centers in the region.
Meanwhile, Dumama said a public hearing will be held in Cebu next week to discuss the implementation of the Universal Health Care Law, especially as the implementing rules and regulations are still being drafted. (From HBL of SuperBalita Cebu/JKV)