Activities and Updates of Team Kaangayan
MALNUTRITION
•In as short as 7 days, the battle against acute malnutrition can be won. With the population progressively increasing and the access to health care become more expensive, a cheap solution to cure this worldwide problem is vital. Who would have thought that the cure for malnutrition lurks around your home garden and kitchen? Despite of world globalization, there are still rural communities that lack appropriate and adequate knowledge regarding malnutrition. Acute malnutrition involves children who are 5 years old and under whose weight is not at par with their height and age or commonly known as wasting. For some, 26.2% of malnourished children is just a small number but for us, it is a big deal since its impact in the society and health complications are taken seriously. Some of the significant sequelae are poor school performance, lack of interest in activities, poor social interactions and most importantly, less opportunities to enjoy life and become successful someday.
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
The solid waste management in Barangay Kaangayan is not yet fully furnished. There were problems encountered such as the garbage collection by the Municiplaity. It seldom visits the Barangay to collect the trash from the materials recovery facilities in every purok.
The people improved their materials recovery facilities as lead by their late Barangay Chairman Gilbert P. Balatero. A lecture about the proper usage of the MRF's was done and pre-test and post-test were used for evaluation of the knowledge learned by the residents. Result: from 53.75% to 60%
As of August 2016, 68.2% compost their biodegradable wastes
The people improved their materials recovery facilities as lead by their late Barangay Chairman Gilbert P. Balatero. A lecture about the proper usage of the MRF's was done and pre-test and post-test were used for evaluation of the knowledge learned by the residents. Result: from 53.75% to 60%
As of August 2016, 68.2% compost their biodegradable wastes
HYPERTENSION
•Mass BP taking was conducted during purok meeting and house-to-house.
•Updated the hypertension masterlist
•3 hypertensives were registered to the BP club in the RHU
As of August 2016
•Total hypertensives: 52
•No of Hypertensives taken: 41
•No of Hypertensives not taken: 11
•25 hypertensives have decreased their BP by 10-20mmHg
•6 hypertensives have the same BP reading
•10 hypertensives have increased their BP by 10-20mmHg
•No. of Patients with normal BP: 9
•No. of Stage 1 hypertensives: 26
•No. of Stage 2 hypertensives: 4
•No. of Mortality: 2
•Updated the hypertension masterlist
•3 hypertensives were registered to the BP club in the RHU
As of August 2016
•Total hypertensives: 52
•No of Hypertensives taken: 41
•No of Hypertensives not taken: 11
•25 hypertensives have decreased their BP by 10-20mmHg
•6 hypertensives have the same BP reading
•10 hypertensives have increased their BP by 10-20mmHg
•No. of Patients with normal BP: 9
•No. of Stage 1 hypertensives: 26
•No. of Stage 2 hypertensives: 4
•No. of Mortality: 2
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH
The Extended Program for Immunization was one of the activities for the monthly visit of RHU to Brgy.Kaangayan. This month our team has assisted with this program together with the midwife and nurse. We catered newborns and children upto age 5 for their monthly immunization. Although there were crying and tantrums involved considering the age of the children, the program was still a success and ended gracefully with some addition to the Fully Immunized Child index
-Updated the list on family planning users and non-users thru primary data from resurvey and secondary data from RHU Mahayag
-Conducted health education on the benefits of Family Planning (per purok) þ Distributed pamphlets on Family planning and Sexually Transmitted Diseases/Infections (STDs/STIs
-Assisted during the monthly barangay visit of Rural Health Unit (RHU) for the Extended Program on Immunization, distribution of Family Planning methods (e.g. COC, Progestin Pills), vitamins/supplements for newborns and children up to 2 years old, & Prenatal for Safe Motherhood.
-Updated the list on family planning users and non-users thru primary data from resurvey and secondary data from RHU Mahayag
-Conducted health education on the benefits of Family Planning (per purok) þ Distributed pamphlets on Family planning and Sexually Transmitted Diseases/Infections (STDs/STIs
-Assisted during the monthly barangay visit of Rural Health Unit (RHU) for the Extended Program on Immunization, distribution of Family Planning methods (e.g. COC, Progestin Pills), vitamins/supplements for newborns and children up to 2 years old, & Prenatal for Safe Motherhood.
TOILET
Proper sanitation facilities (such as toilets and latrines) promote health because they allow people to dispose of their waste appropriately. Absence of basic sanitation facilities can result in an unhealthy environment contaminated by human waste, a waste from infected individuals can contaminate a community's land and water, increasing the risk of infection for other individuals. Inadequate waste disposal drives the infection cycle of many agents that can be spread through contaminated soil, food, water, and insects such as flies which can contribute to the spread of many diseases/conditions that can cause widespread illness and death.
Globally, over 1 billion people do not have access to sanitary toilet and still practicing open defecation. In Philippines, community residents of barangay Kaangayan in municipality of Mahayag Zamboanga del Sur are not excluded in this global fact. In reassessment of their toilet as of August 2016, there are still 17 families do not have access to sanitary toilet, and increasing number of children having diarrhea was observed. Therefore, with continues campaign in improving toilet condition and improving the health of the community residents, health teaching was conducted on what is diarrhea, how it is contracted and how can it be manage at home. In the pre and post test evaluation, improvement of scores from 56% to 84% was obtained, thereby concluding the method effective in providing health information.
Globally, over 1 billion people do not have access to sanitary toilet and still practicing open defecation. In Philippines, community residents of barangay Kaangayan in municipality of Mahayag Zamboanga del Sur are not excluded in this global fact. In reassessment of their toilet as of August 2016, there are still 17 families do not have access to sanitary toilet, and increasing number of children having diarrhea was observed. Therefore, with continues campaign in improving toilet condition and improving the health of the community residents, health teaching was conducted on what is diarrhea, how it is contracted and how can it be manage at home. In the pre and post test evaluation, improvement of scores from 56% to 84% was obtained, thereby concluding the method effective in providing health information.
TUBERCULOSIS
The Philippines has been included on the list of high cases of Tuberculosis in the world. For past years, tuberculosis has always been included in the top 10 causes of morbidity and mortality in the country. With a rate of 26.3 deaths for every 100,000 population and accounted for 5.1% of total death, Tuberculosis was the 6th leading cause of mortality. Though figures show that this disease is a major problem in our country, it has always been a fact that this disease is curable with early detection and medical compliance.
Barangay Kaangayan has been known to have cases of Tuberculosis in the Municipality of Mahayag. Futhermore, it’s quite unfortunate that the barangay still has undetected cases of Tuberculosis. Ineffective case detection, treatment compliance and proper referral system have been the hindrances in achieving the MDG on combating disease such as Tuberculosis. In the pursuit of eradicating Tuberculosis, the team kaangayan has developed a community health plan for the barangay. Objectives and strategies were created to achieve the 90% treatment success rate by the year 2017. As of this year, the CHP on Tuberculosis is on it’s way to completion.
Last month, activities such as lecture on Tuberculosis per purok, update on the masterlists, home visit to identify TB symptomatics and TB defaulters were done. Data also revealed that there are 7 identified TB symptomatics, 6 diagnosed TB patients and 6 TB patients who completed the 6-month treatment through DOTS as of August 2016.
Barangay Kaangayan has been known to have cases of Tuberculosis in the Municipality of Mahayag. Futhermore, it’s quite unfortunate that the barangay still has undetected cases of Tuberculosis. Ineffective case detection, treatment compliance and proper referral system have been the hindrances in achieving the MDG on combating disease such as Tuberculosis. In the pursuit of eradicating Tuberculosis, the team kaangayan has developed a community health plan for the barangay. Objectives and strategies were created to achieve the 90% treatment success rate by the year 2017. As of this year, the CHP on Tuberculosis is on it’s way to completion.
Last month, activities such as lecture on Tuberculosis per purok, update on the masterlists, home visit to identify TB symptomatics and TB defaulters were done. Data also revealed that there are 7 identified TB symptomatics, 6 diagnosed TB patients and 6 TB patients who completed the 6-month treatment through DOTS as of August 2016.