Activity: Interview a community doctor in your area.
Answer the following questions (you can opt to expound):
- How does
the community take care of the health of its residents?
- What are
the available services?
How can you help as a member of the community?
CARRYING OUT THE ACTIVITY:
When I went to a community health center / clinic
near our area, I was told by the lady doctor there that I needed to go to City
Hall first to request for approval before I can interview her.
Since this will entail additional work and much time,
my mother suggested that we approach her friend who is a nurse-supervisor in
the Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital – a maternal and newborn tertiary
hospital found in Sta. Cruz, Manila.
The nurse said we can prepare the question / interview
forms and give these to her. She will give these to community doctors who go to
Fabella Hospital. After a week, we can return to get the forms. Below is how
the forms look like:
8 July 2014
Dear Dr. ________________
Kindly
help me accomplish this written interview for our Health (MAPEH) subject in
school. Thank you very much for your help.
Truly yours,
Mavorneen Ruth (Mavy) Sadorra
Student – Grade 9
Catholic Filipino Academy – Barcelona Academy
INTERVIEW
Name of
community doctor: _______________________________________________________________
Barangay no.,
district and address: __________________________________________________________
How does the
community health center take care of the health of its residents?
______________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
What are the
available services?
______________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
Does the health
center provide home service treatment and sickness prevention? What are these
provisions?
______________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
When
I received the accomplished forms, my mom and I were pleasantly surprised to
know that the two community doctors
who answered the forms were from faraway places and who actually worked in rural health units. They were in the
Fabella Hospital for some reason the week we made our request to my mom’s
friend.
- Dr. Brenan
Ian DC Capuno, MD, MPM – Concepcion Rural Health Unit, Concepcion, Romblon
How does the community health center take care of
the health of its residents?
The community
health center provides preventive and primary level of care in the community.
It provides health services that focus on the promotion of basic health care.
What are the available services?
·
basic
laboratory services
·
control
and treatment of infectious diseases and noncommunicable diseases
·
dental
health services
·
disease
surveillance
·
environmental
health and sanitation
·
family
planning
·
immunization
and vitamin and nutrient supplementation
·
maternal
and child health care
·
minor
surgical procedures
·
pre-marriage
counselling
·
promotion
of healthy lifestyle
Does
the health center provide home service treatment and sickness prevention? What
are these provisions?
Yes, the health
center provides home service treatment and sickness prevention. Sickness
prevention focuses on the promotion of health education and healthy lifestyle.
Home service treatment is provided through the barangay health workers and
midwives and through barangay consultations of public health nurses and
physicians.
- Rosalyn
Panao, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology – Municipality of Tubo, Abra
How does the community health center take care of
the health of its residents?
By implementing
the different Department of Health programs for primary health care services
such as provision of preventive care on the:
·
control
of communicable and noncommunicable diseases
·
environmental
sanitation
·
expanded
program on immunization
·
family
planning
·
implementation
of the national tuberculosis (TB) control program
·
leprosy
control
·
maternal
and child health nutrition
What are the available services?
·
dental
services
·
normal
birth / vaginal delivery (prenatal and postnatal)
·
immunization
for children
·
family
planning and reproductive health
·
daily
consultation for sick adults and children
Does
the health center provide home service treatment and sickness prevention? What
are these provisions?
Yes, we do have
home visits to patients or cases that need follow-ups and for those who failed
to do follow-up checkups in the clinic like TB and leprosy cases. We refer
patients that need second-level of care for diagnostics or surgery.
OWN
RESPONSE: How can you help as a member of the community?
- By keeping our surroundings clean – such as
drainage and yard
- By propagating plants that are
environment-friendly – such as citronella, lemongrass and neem tree – to
help reduce mosquito population, esp. that causes dengue
- By making sure possible breeding places of
insects (esp. those that cause epidemics and illnesses) are thoroughly
cleaned and sanitized
- By helping disseminate proper and correct
information about communicable and noncommunicable illnesses
- By practicing the three Rs in garbage disposal
– reduce, re-use and recycle
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