In order to come up with a community health plan and provide the push Barangay Balacbaan needs to solve their health problems, we first had to gain a better insight of our community. We spent the remaining weeks of our stay gathering as much information we can about the barangay; its past and its present, the people, its political scene, their livelihood, and health statistics and indices. And by the end of the exposure, we were asked to present our community profile.
Our quest to discover more about Balacbaan first led us to the Regional Health Unit of Tampilisan in Poblacion. The travel to Poblacion involves a seat jarring 30 minute habal-habal drive on alternating gravel and rocky roads that we had to valiantly endure. Unfortunately, Dr. Ladeza, our MHO and the nurse in charge of the records were in a disaster preparation seminar and won’t be back until next week. Having failed to get a hold of the municipal records, we went back to Balacbaan and sought out the Barangay Health Workers (BHW) to obtain data from the logbooks that they kept. Barangay Balacbaan is divided into three puroks and each purok was assigned to one BHW. Through the logbooks, we were able to get the population, number of households, water source, type of toilet, family planning method, number of under 5 children, and 4Ps members of each purok. We’ve also approached the local barangay officials to ask for the history of Balacbaan and other useful material. However, we were told to go to the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) because they submitted their barangay profile there. We’ve also approached the BHW in charge of the barangay health unit in Galingon, the barangay before Balacbaan where the residents go for medical needs. Through the monthly reports of the BHU, we were able to get data on the EPI program, Maternal care and nutrition status of under 5 from Balacbaan.
The following week, we again set off for Poblacion to get municipal records on certain health indices of our barangay. We were able to get the morbidity and mortality records of the entire Tampilisan from the RHU and headed to the DILG office near the municipal hall. We went to different offices in the process of searching for the barangay profile only to find out that they didn’t have the document. We went back to Balacbaan to ask if they still had a copy of the barangay profile that we could use for our presentation. Thankfully, we found a document containing the history and origin of the name of the Barangay. The remaining days before the end of the exposure was then spent on tallying and preparing the presentation.
The presentation was done in the residence of Dr. Ladeza in Liloy. All the Tampilisan groups met up in the RHU and took the bus to Liloy and then to Dr. Ladeza’s. We ate together with some sophomores and got the chance to unwind before the presentation. It was done together with the other groups so we were able to learn from each other. We also got to see a glimpse of their communities and with the help of Dr. Ladeza, found areas of improvement for the paper we’ll be submitting to the school.
Our quest to discover more about Balacbaan first led us to the Regional Health Unit of Tampilisan in Poblacion. The travel to Poblacion involves a seat jarring 30 minute habal-habal drive on alternating gravel and rocky roads that we had to valiantly endure. Unfortunately, Dr. Ladeza, our MHO and the nurse in charge of the records were in a disaster preparation seminar and won’t be back until next week. Having failed to get a hold of the municipal records, we went back to Balacbaan and sought out the Barangay Health Workers (BHW) to obtain data from the logbooks that they kept. Barangay Balacbaan is divided into three puroks and each purok was assigned to one BHW. Through the logbooks, we were able to get the population, number of households, water source, type of toilet, family planning method, number of under 5 children, and 4Ps members of each purok. We’ve also approached the local barangay officials to ask for the history of Balacbaan and other useful material. However, we were told to go to the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) because they submitted their barangay profile there. We’ve also approached the BHW in charge of the barangay health unit in Galingon, the barangay before Balacbaan where the residents go for medical needs. Through the monthly reports of the BHU, we were able to get data on the EPI program, Maternal care and nutrition status of under 5 from Balacbaan.
The following week, we again set off for Poblacion to get municipal records on certain health indices of our barangay. We were able to get the morbidity and mortality records of the entire Tampilisan from the RHU and headed to the DILG office near the municipal hall. We went to different offices in the process of searching for the barangay profile only to find out that they didn’t have the document. We went back to Balacbaan to ask if they still had a copy of the barangay profile that we could use for our presentation. Thankfully, we found a document containing the history and origin of the name of the Barangay. The remaining days before the end of the exposure was then spent on tallying and preparing the presentation.
The presentation was done in the residence of Dr. Ladeza in Liloy. All the Tampilisan groups met up in the RHU and took the bus to Liloy and then to Dr. Ladeza’s. We ate together with some sophomores and got the chance to unwind before the presentation. It was done together with the other groups so we were able to learn from each other. We also got to see a glimpse of their communities and with the help of Dr. Ladeza, found areas of improvement for the paper we’ll be submitting to the school.