PAGADIAN CITY – The Department of
Health-Center for Health and Development (DOH-CHD), Zamboanga Peninsula
recently conducted a training on the package of essential non-communicable
disease (NCD) interventions for primary health facilities in low resource
settings at Guillermo Hotel this city.
Sixty one “Doctors to the Barrios” (DTTBs) and Public
Health Nurses (PHN) deployed in the different municipalities in Zamboanga del
Sur and Zamboanga del Norte attended the said training.
Dr. Ma. Agnes Mabolo, NCD regional focal person said
the training aimed to upgrade the skills and knowledge of the participants on
the essential interventions for NCDs such as hypertension and diabetes.
Topics discussed were guidelines in the use of the
protocol on the integrated management of hypertension and diabetes (risk
assessment and risk screening), improving access to essential medicines and
guidelines for distribution/use of NCD medicines, PhilHealth Financing for NCD,
reporting, health information system, registries and evaluation, among others.
Meanwhile, Dr. Antonio Paraiso, National Program
Manager of Renal Disease Control Program (REDCOP) discussed the importance of
urinalysis and the 10 clinical syndromes in Nephrology. (PIA9)
