tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42108705289572834752024-02-01T20:39:08.492-08:00VPHCS, Inc.Official blog site of Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc.Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03074091656166530585noreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4210870528957283475.post-63003422604834591342014-12-15T10:30:00.000-08:002015-02-16T02:50:32.006-08:00Medical and dental mission for families affected by Typhoon Yolanda and Typhoon Ruby in Polambato, Bogo City, Cebu<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<i>In Polambato Elementary School.</i></div>
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The Visays Primary Health Care Services, Inc. coordinated with the Polambato Farmers’ Association which was organized by the Central Visayas Farmers’ Development Center (FARDEC), another non-government organization, in the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda as part of its relief and rehabilitation support services for families affected by the disaster. The local government unit and administration of the elementary school helped also to prepare for the mission. </div>
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Members of the mission team included the following, namely: 12 doctors, 7 nurses, seven dentists, and one psychologist. The VPHCS had nine staff members which included one doctor and three nurses. The FARDEC had two staff members. The entire medical mission team consisted of 38 people. </div>
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Services in the medical mission included the following, namely: medical consultations for illnesses for children and adults, diabetes screening for adults more than 40 years old, dental services of tooth extraction, urinalysis, and giving of reading glasses. </div>
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For many of the patients, it was the first time that they had medical care since Typhoon Yolanda hit the Philippines in November 8, 2013. Having to work very hard to look for food after the damage to their crops, suffering from the lack of shelter after the destruction of their houses and trying to find all possible resources to feed their families, many patients had neglected their health. For many of them, going to the health center to seek medical care for their illnesses or to buy medicines for their illnesses was the least priority; the first priority was to find food. </div>
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Registered adult patients had their blood pressure taken and the children were also weighed by the nursing team. Adults 40 years old and above had their blood sugar tested for diabetes after which they joined all other adult patients in the adult consultation room. All children were ushered to the two pediatric consultation rooms. </div>
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<i>Patients line up for registration.</i></div>
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<i>Registration of patients.</i></div>
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<i>Consultation room for adults.</i></div>
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Patients who had urinary complaints had urinalysis done. </div>
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<i>Urinalysis.</i></div>
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Adults and children who had dental problems were brought to the classroom for dental services. </div>
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After their medical check-up, the patients then went to the pharmacy to get their prescribed medicines. </div>
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<i>Dispensing of medicines.</i></div>
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A total of 366 patients were given medical services, 50 of whom also had dental care, while 25 had only dental care. This brought the total number of patients to 391. A total of 147 persons were given reading glasses all of whom were also attended to by the doctors. </div>
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A total of 100 patients had their blood sugar tested for diabetes, 5 of whom had elevated blood sugar levels. They were all given hypoglycemic medications good for three months and advised to have regular blood sugar check-up and diet control. </div>
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Reading eyeglasses were provided to 147 patients. Having eyeglasses is a luxury in the rural areas in the Philippines. Even if Bogo City has optometry clinics, people could not afford their services. Those who availed of the glasses were truly happy that they could now read clearly or sew their clothes. </div>
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Hypertension was the second leading cause of illness after acute respiratory tract infections. Many of the patients said that they were not taking any anti-hypertensive medications because they did not feel any symptoms, could not afford to buy the medicines, or were not given medicines by the government health centers due to limited supply. The mission dispensed anti-hypertensive medications good for three months per patient after the doctors talked with the patients to have their blood pressure checked regularly by the barangay health workers and to take their medicines daily. </div>
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The occurrence of acute respiratory tract infections, osteoarthritis, muscle pains, and non-ulcer dyspepsia among adults is seen in the context of the situation affecting the residents who are mostly poor farmers who have to work all day long in the fields, causing stress to them and tendency to take irregular meals, or decreasing their bodies’ immune response. </div>
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Nine patients suspected of having pulmonary tuberculosis were referred to the city government’s health center in order to have sputum examination so that the patients can avail of free medicines if the examination is positive for the tuberculosis bacteria. There were also six cases each of pneumonia and anemia and five cases each of diabetes mellitus and bronchial asthma. </div>
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There were 182 children less than 13 years old and 14 of them had normal findings. Majority (124 or 68%) had acute respiratory tract infection which is mostly viral in etiology. In the week prior to the mission, the weather was not good due to Typhoon Ruby resulting to lowered immune response of the children, making them susceptible to catch cough and colds. Ten of them came down with pneumonia and five had chronic bronchitis which are both lower respiratory tract infections. Five were anemic and three had skin infections while two had bronchial asthma and otitis media. One child had a lacerated wound on his foot after stepping on broken glass. A doctor in the mission sutured the wound so that the patient was not anymore referred to the city’s government hospital which would have cost money to his family. </div>
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All patients were properly given medicines bought from the funds from Lands Aid. They included essential medicines such as antibiotics, analgesics, anti-pyretics, anti- hypertensives, antacids, ferrous sulfate, anti-diabetic, mucolytic, deworming agents, bronchodilator, multivitamins, skin antibiotics, and many others. </div>
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In general, the mission was indeed successful and the patients expressed their appreciation and gratitude to the team. The team members were also very happy that they were able to serve the farmers and residents of the community who are continuing to strive hard to regain their normal lives after Typhoon Yolanda one year ago. </div>
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Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03074091656166530585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4210870528957283475.post-52918675795955701092014-12-05T18:03:00.000-08:002015-02-16T02:28:12.268-08:00CRM Trainings for VPHCS staff and community health workers in Bantayan conducted<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>A</i></b></span>s part of the ongoing project of the Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc. (VPHCS) to provide mental health services to families affected by Typhoon Yolanda in the northern part of Cebu, trainings on community resiliency model (CRM) were recently conducted for the VPHCS staff and community health workers in the affected areas in Bantayan. </div>
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The project, Integrating Community Resiliency Model (CRM) in Community-based Health Program (CBHP) in ten villages in northern Cebu affected by Typhoon Yolanda is funded by the <a href="http://www.uusc.org/" target="_blank">Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)</a>, a human rights organization based in Massachusettes, U.S.A. and working in more than a dozen countries worldwide. </div>
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The six-month project which started in October 2014, addresses the mental health in the ten communities through application of the CRM so that the residents can help themselves and help others as well. </div>
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Trainings on CRM for the VPHCS staff were conducted on October 17 – 19, Nov. 8 -9, 2014, in the Institute of Religion and Culture, Cebu City. Resource persons included three nurses trained on CRM and members of the Philippine Association of Community Resiliency Model Trainers (PhilACTs), Edgar Gahisan, Lord Sidney Relon and Irish Grace Ramirez, and UUSC consultant Rainera Lucero. </div>
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<i>A workshop during the CRM training.</i><i> </i></div>
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The trainers then gave community-based trainings on CRM to community health workers of the ten barangays. The first trainings were held in Patao in Bantayan on Nov. 29 – Dec. 1, and Kampinganon in Bantayan, and San Agustin in Madridejos on Dec. 2 – 4.</div>
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Ten CHWs in each barangay attended the trainings which were conducted by Irish Grace Ramirez, Pearl Templado, Tardy Guardiario, and Lucila Carrreon of the VPHCS. </div>
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“Community Resiliency Model (CRM) of the Trauma Resource Institute embodies a community-oriented approach that promotes independence, education about the biology of the human body and how it responds to traumatic events and most importantly, how to restore or enhance resiliency. It trains community members to not only help themselves but to help others within their wider social network. CRM aims to “make the skills a part of healing in daily life, to increase a sense of one’s ability to help him/herself, to learn how to bring the body, mind and spirit into greater balance and to encourage people to pass the skills along to friends and loved ones.”</div>
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“The primary focus of this skills-based, stabilization program is to re-set the natural balance of the nervous system. CRM skills help individuals understand their nervous system and learn to track sensations connected to their own well-being, which CRM calls the “Resilient Zone”. CRM’s goal is to help to create “trauma-informed” and “resiliency-informed” communities that share a common understanding of the impact of trauma and chronic stress on the nervous system and how resiliency can be restored or increased using this skills-based approach. </div>
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“CRM has largely been used with individuals and communities, which have been marginalized either by economic challenges, ethnicity or specific events. Applying CRM proactively with an entire community or neighborhood that is chronically stressed can alleviate the symptoms of chronic stress placing the community and its members in a better position to change their situation by increasing their resiliency.” </div>
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In the trainings of the community health workers, the participants said that Community Resiliency Model helped them in recovering themselves from the Yolanda experience, making them able to control themselves when they are out of their resilient zone.</div>
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Other communities in future trainings to be conducted include Barangay Lipayran, Municipality of Bantayan, Barangays Baterya, Malbago and Tominhao in the Municipality of Daanbantayan, Barangay North Poblacion, Municipality of San Francisco, Barangay Cagcagan, Municipality of Puro and Barangay Puertobello, Municipality of Tudela.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>N</b></i></span>early 800 residents of four barangays affected by Typhoon Yolanda were served during a medical mission conducted by the Visayas Primary Health Care Services.</div>
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The residents of Barangays Tindog and Dalingding Sur, Medellin were served during the mission in Tindog last Nov. 22 and residents of Barangays Paypay and Dalingding Norte, Daanbantayan were served in Paypay on Nov. 23. </div>
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The mission was supported by LandsAid, a German humanitarian aid organization which had earlier supported a similar mission in Barangay Tambongon, San Remegio last Sept. 14. </div>
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Services in the two day medical mission included the following, namely: medical consultations for illnesses for children and adults, diabetes screening for adults more than 40 years old, nutritional status assessment, visual acuity check-up, dental check up and urinalysis for children six years to 12 years old, eye check-up for adults and giving of reading glasses, and distribution of toothbrushes and toothpastes for children. The mission sites were the barangay hall and day care center in Tindog and the Paypay National High School. </div>
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These four barangays have established women’s organizations which were organized by the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/womensresourcecenterofvisayas" target="_blank">Women’s Resource Center of Visayas </a>(WRCV), another non-government organization, as an offshoot of the relief efforts immediately after the typhoon. The Visayas Primary Health Care Services coordinated with the WRCV and the women’s organizations in organizing the mission. </div>
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Invited members of the mission team included the following, namely: 10 doctors, 12 nurses, one optometrist and 5 non-health personnel. The VPHCS had seven staff members which included one doctor and three nurses. The WRCV had a five-member team. The entire medical mission team consisted of 37 people. </div>
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In both sites, registered adult patients had their blood pressure taken and the children were also weighed by the nursing team. They were then segregated into adults and children. All adults who had eye problems were ushered to the room for eye check up, those 40 years and above had diabetes screening, after which all were attended to by the team of doctors. All children six years to 12 years old were ushered to the room for urinalysis, height and weight measurement, dental check-up and distribution of toothbrushes and toothpastes, after which they were brought to the medical consultation room. All patients were eventually attended to by the team of doctors. After their medical check-up, the patients then went to the pharmacy to get their prescribed medicines. </div>
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<i>Dr. Marilyn Dayrit and her daughter Milka conducted </i></div>
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<i>More than 400 patients were served in Paypay.</i></div>
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In Medellin, a total of 362 patients were attended to, while in Daanbantayan, there were 414. This brought the total number of patients to 776. </div>
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A total of 230 patients had their blood sugar tested for diabetes. For many of them, it was the first time that they had their blood sugar tested. Only 22 were found to be diabetic, they were all given hypoglycemic medications good for three months and advised to have regular blood sugar check-up and diet control. </div>
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Nearly all of the children had good eye vision and only five percent had urinary infection. However, more than 50 percent of the children had dental caries due to poor hygiene. Thus, the children were taught by the nurses about dental hygiene and proper use of toothbrush. A total of 400 toothbrushes and toothpaste were distributed in both missions. </div>
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<i>VPHCS staff Luz Carreon conducted dental check up </i></div>
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Reading eyeglasses were provided to 150 patients in Medellin and 150 patients in Daanbantayan after eye check up by an optometrist.</div>
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Hypertension was the leading cause of illness among the adults in the four barangays, as it is the leading cause of morbidity together with cardiovascular diseases nationwide. </div>
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The occurrence of acute respiratory tract infections, osteoarthritis, muscle pains, non-ulcer dyspepsia, tension headache and anemia among adults is seen in the context of the situation affecting the residents almost a year after Typhoon Yolanda devastated the northern towns of Cebu. With the destruction of their crops and trees (sugar cane, corn, coconut, banana, mango), the farmers had lost their source of income and food and they are still trying to cultivate their fields of food crops. Osteoarthritis, muscle pains and tension headache are common among farmers who have to work hard in the farms in order to put food on their tables, thereby putting their bodies into stress and exertion. Non-ulcer dyspepsia was also common since being farmers, they have the tendency to skip their meals while working in the fields or simply because there was no food to eat at all. Acute respiratory tract infections can be attributed to their lowered body immune system or resistance.</div>
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Medicines and medical supplies in government health centers are still lacking to meet the needs of the people. The mission dispensed appropriate medicines for the illnesses. </div>
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The few patients with other problems that needed further work-up and management were referred to tertiary hospitals in Cebu </div>
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In general, the mission was indeed successful and the patients expressed their appreciation and gratitude to the team. For the team members, it was also a meaningful experience for them to have served the farmers and residents of the community who are continuing to strive hard to live a decent life after the devastation of Typhoon Yolanda. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>P</i></b></span>sychosocial support services were recently rendered to more than 200 residents of four barangays in north Cebu that were devastated by Typhoon Yolanda. Trainings for community health workers were also conducted.</div>
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The services were rendered by the Visayas Primary Health Care Services in Barangays Tindog and Dalingding Sur, Medellin, and Barangays Paypay and Dalingding Norte, Daanbantayan. </div>
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The program is part of a 15-month project, “Community – Led Disaster Preparedness and Resiliency: Grassroots’ Alternative in the Face of Climate Change,” which is implemented in the four barangays by the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/womensresourcecenterofvisayas" target="_blank">Women’s Resource Center of the Visayas</a> (WRCV) based in Cebu City. The project proponent is the <a href="http://www.pnfsp.org/" target="_blank">Philippine Network of Food Security Programmes, Inc. </a>(PNFSP). It is funded by the T<a href="http://www.terredeshommes.org/" target="_blank">erre des Hommes International Federation</a> (TDH). </div>
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The project aims to ensure that the four barangays have fully recovered from the main impacts of the typhoon, restored their livelihood and established safety and disaster prevention, response and recovery mechanisms and achieved their basic rights to food for their children and families through livelihood assistance and food security alternatives. </div>
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As part of the rehabilitation process, the VPHCS conducted a series of psychosocial sessions in October and November for more than 500 adults and children who were affected by Typhoon Yolanda. Teams of nurses, psychologists and trained health care givers conducted lectures on disaster orientation and preparedness followed by in-depth stress debriefing sessions and trauma healing to small groups of residents. During the sessions, the residents who were all survivors of Typhoon Yolanda ventilated and shared their experiences on Yolanda which were then processed by the psychosocial team so that they were relieved of their fears and stress and resolved to face future life’s challenges.</div>
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<i>VPHCS staff nurse Pearl Templado explains about </i></div>
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<i>Psychologist Gilbert Carredo facilitates </i></div>
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Children and the youth also had play and art therapy to express their feelings and experiences during the typhoon. </div>
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Trainings for 22 community health workers were also conducted.</div>
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During the first training on “Health disaster preparedness and mental health orientation” on Oct. 25-26, the CHWs were able to understand disaster risk reduction and preparedness and management. Disaster mapping of their particular barangays was also done in order to pinpoint the specific disasters, particularly typhoons, that they are vulnerable to and how to address them. The CHWs were also taught the health measures related with disaster preparedness and management. </div>
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Furthermore, the CHWs were taught the basic elements of mental health problems resulting from disasters as exemplified by Typhoon Yolanda and how to deal with people with such problems, particularly how to do simple stress debriefing. After the training, the CHWs were thankful of the knowledge and skills that they learned that will enable them to help their community members. </div>
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The second training, “Local health workers training on facilitation using the tool of psychological processing,” was conducted on November 15-16. The 22 CHWs were taught about Community Resiliency Model (CRM), a type of simple wellness, teaching, learning and communication skills that can be used to treat persons experiencing stress or psychological trauma. Through discussions, exercises workshops and practicum, the CHWs were taught how to handle persons in times of stress including the psychological effects of disasters. </div>
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With the trainings on psychosocial processing facilitation, the CHWs will be equipped to facilitate simple psycho-social processing for adults and children and undertake community activities on health disaster preparedness, especially on awareness -raising on the health effects of disasters and activities to build individual and collective coping strategies.</div>
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The participants were thankful for the new skills they learned which they can use to help and teach others, facilitate the resolution of simple problems, help families, as well as refer persons who may need special psychosocial counseling and treatment to psychiatrists and psychologists. </div>
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The barangay reached by a three-hour bus ride north from Cebu City, is one of the barangays severely affected by Typhoon Yolanda in November 8, 2013. </div>
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The mission was supported by Lands Aid, a humanitarian aid organization based in Germany. Its Philippine project coordinator Andreas Schmitz coordinated with the VPHCS to ensure the success of the mission. Schmitz has been based in San Remegio since July this year to oversee the repair and construction of houses for about 300 families affected by the typhoon in San Remegio. Lands Aid had also sent volunteers of doctors and nurses to deliver relief and medical assistance after the typhoon in November. </div>
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The 40-member team of doctors, nurses, dentists, community health workers and volunteers rendered medical and dental services and gave eyeglasses. </div>
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A total of 185 adults and 143 children were attended to by 9 doctors. Dental services were provided by six dentists, members of the Cebu Dental Society. The Juanito I. King Foundation also provided its dental mobile van. A total of 136 patients had teeth extraction and oral prophylaxis. Flouride solution was also given to the children by the dentists in order to protect their teeth from caries.</div>
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Patients came from neighboring barangays of Tambongon and neighboring barangays of Kayam, Anapog, Dapdap, Tacop, Mano, and Batad. </div>
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<i>Dr. Florespina Jeanjaquet inside the dental van.</i></div>
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<i>Dr. Lynwood Tabanao with a patient.</i></div>
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The medical mission came at a time when agriculture in Barangay Tambungon has not yet been completely restored, food security remains a problem and malnutrition is common that in turn makes one susceptible to contracting diseases. Hunger, poor nutrition and lack of income make them and their children very susceptible to illnesses while those who become sick cannot afford to buy their necessary medicines. Medicines and medical supplies in government health centers that have just resumed their normal operations are still lacking to meet the needs of the people. </div>
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Acute upper respiratory tract infections or cough and colds were common among both adults and children, since, even 10 months now after Typhoon Yolanda, many families continue to live in temporary tents, makeshift houses or shelters vulnerable to harsh climate conditions, or share homes with other families resulting in overcrowded conditions that make them susceptible to easy transmission of diseases. . </div>
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Hypertension seen among the adults in the mission was a serious concern since uncontrolled hypertension can lead to serious complications such as stroke, kidney problem or heart enlargement. Osteoarthritis, muscle pains and tension headache were also common among adults who were farmers that have to work hard in the farms in order to put food on their tables, thereby putting their bodies into stress and exertion. Non-ulcer dyspepsia was also common since being farmers, they have the tendency to skip their meals while working in the fields or simply because there was no food to eat at all. </div>
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The project, Integrating Community Resiliency Model (CRM) in Community-based Health Program (CBHP) in ten villages in northern Cebu affected by Typhoon Yolanda is funded by the <a href="http://www.uusc.org/" target="_blank">Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)</a>, a human rights organization based in Massachusettes, U.S.A. and working in more than a dozen countries worldwide. UUSC fosters social justice and advances human rights, partnering with those who confront unjust power structures and mobilizing to challenge oppressive policies.</div>
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The six-month project which starts in October 2014, addresses the mental health in the ten communities through application of the Community Resiliency Model (CRM) so that the residents can help themselves and help others as well. </div>
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The ten communities include Barangays Patao, Lipayran and Kampinganon, Municipality of Bantayan, Barangay San Augustin, Municipality of Madridejos, Barangays Baterya, Malbago and Tominhao in the Municipality of Daanbantayan, Barangay North Poblacion, Municipality of San Francisco, Barangay Cagcagan, Municipality of Puro and Barangay Puertobello, Municipality of Tudela.</div>
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CRM embodies a community-oriented approach that promotes independence, education about the biology of the human body and how it responds to traumatic events and most importantly, how to restore or enhance resiliency. CRM aims to “make the skills a part of healing in daily life, to increase a sense of one’s ability to help him/herself, to learn how to bring the body, mind and spirit into greater balance and to encourage people to pass the skills along to friends and loved ones.”</div>
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The ten barangays are all coastal communities where residents are poor fisherfolks and small farmers whose houses were severely damaged by Typhoon Yolanda and their means of livelihood were totally lost. Even before Yolanda struck, the residents were already wallowing in poverty and facing dire hardships to eke a living to feed their families. Yolanda aggravated their sufferings. </div>
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The ten barangays are among the 20 barangays which were served by the VPHCS during a previous project from February 2014 – April 2014, “Building resilient Communities in facing natural calamities – Phase I,” implemented by the Central Visayas Farmers Development Center (FARDEC) with the support of the Action Aid. The VPHCS provided psychosocial services to survivors of the typhoon, as part of the relief, shelter, livelihood and rehabilitation services in the project. It also organized people’s organizations including formation of working committees on disaster preparedness. </div>
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In the ten barangays are residents who showed signs of mental stress and psychosocial trauma that needed to have continued psychosocial intervention. </div>
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The project shall provide trainings of community health workers in the ten communities that shall enable them to have basic CRM skills to help their residents return back to resiliency, recover from any trauma and promote their mental health. </div>
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It aims to develop “trauma-informed” and “resiliency-informed” communities in the ten barangays where residents share a common understanding of the impact of trauma on the nervous system and how resiliency can be restored using this skills-based approach. </div>
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Prior to the community-based trainings, the VPHCS staff members and volunteers shall also undergo trainings on CRM, who shall then train the community health workers and apply their skills in the course of providing primary health care services in the programs of the VPHCS. </div>
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Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03074091656166530585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4210870528957283475.post-26464197907417229502014-09-22T17:33:00.000-07:002014-11-07T19:08:55.559-08:00VPHCS joins St. Scholastica’s Academy medical mission<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>T</i></b></span>he Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc. joined the 50th year Jubilee celebration of the St. Scholastica’s Academy in Tabunok, Talisay City by sending a team of doctors and nurses to serve in the medical and dental mission held last September 21.</div>
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The school which is administered by the Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing launched its 50th Jubilee on July 19, 2014. </div>
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The mission served beneficiaries of its adopted areas of Sitios Mananga, Anadol and Sitio Fatima in Tabunok. </div>
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The Southwestern College of Dentistry also sent its clinical instructors and dental students headed by Dr. Paciencia Belarmino. </div>
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Services included medical consultations, tooth extraction, fluoride solution application in teeth, blood sugar testing, dispensing of free medicines and fitting and giving of eyeglasses.</div>
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Sr. Mary Nicole C. Garcia, OSB, CIP Coordinator coordinated with the VPHCS and dental teams to ensure the success of the mission.</div>
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Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03074091656166530585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4210870528957283475.post-91204968255565055092014-08-14T09:10:00.000-07:002014-11-07T18:55:38.678-08:00VPHCS implements project on psychosocial servicesfor Typhoon Yolanda survivors<div style="text-align: justify;">
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The 15-month project, “Community – Led Disaster Preparedness and Resiliency: Grassroots’ Alternative in the Face of Climate Change,” is implemented in Barangays Tindog and Dalingding Sur, Municipality of Medellin, Barangays Paypay and Dalingding Norte, Municipality of Daanbantayan. The project proponent is the<a href="http://www.pnfsp.org/" target="_blank"> Philippine Network of Food Security Programmes, Inc. (PNFSP)</a>. It is funded by the <a href="http://www.terredeshommes.org/" target="_blank">Terre des Hommes International Federation (TDH)</a>. </div>
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Aside from the four Cebu barangays, the said project is also implemented in four barangays in the municipality of Burauen in the province of Leyte which also suffered gravely from Typhoon Yolanda. </div>
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Together with the VPHCS as co-implementors are the Eastern Visayas Rural Assistance Program (EVRAP) based in Palo, Leyte, the Women’s Resource Center of the Visayas (WRCV) based in Cebu City, and the Advocates for Community Health Inc. (ACH) based in Manila. </div>
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The project aims to ensure that the eight barangays have fully recovered from the main impacts of the typhoon, restored their livelihood and established safety and disaster prevention, response and recovery mechanisms and achieved their basic rights to food for their children and families through livelihood assistance and food security alternatives. </div>
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Specifically in the four Cebu barangays, the VPHCS shall conduct psychosocial sessions for selected adults and children with unresolved trauma so that they can regain their usual work routine and pre-disaster psychological disposition. </div>
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<i>A play therapy with young people in Paypay, Daanbantayan.</i></div>
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The VPHCS shall also conduct trainings for local health workers in the four barangays on health disaster preparedness and mental health, and trainings on psychosocial processing facilitation so that they will be equipped to facilitate basic psycho-social processing for adults and children and undertake community activities on health disaster preparedness, especially on awareness -raising on the health effects of disasters and activities to build individual and collective coping strategies.</div>
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These four barangays have established people’s organizations which were organized by the WRCV as an offshoot of the relief efforts immediately after the typhoon. </div>
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<br />Volunteers included VSMMC pediatric residents Dr. Pat Cartagenas and Dr. Feli Domugho, PGI Dennis Arana, Jea Llanos and Rialyn Rojo, Optometrists Dr. Primativa Arquiza and Dr. Marilyn Dayrit, and dentist Dr. Eva Torres. VPHCS staff Dr. Erlinda Posadas, Dr. Grace Molina, Lourdes Geolin and Luz Carreon went with the team. Nursing student members of the Students’ Alliance for Community Health Services (SACHS) also rendered services in the mission.<br />
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Present were BOT chairman Atty. Alfonso Cinco IV, vice-chairman Dr. Jaime Galvez Tan, treasurer Elizabeth Tan, Dr. Caridad Sri Tharan, Dr. Eleonor Jara, Elena Luna, VPHCS executive director Dr. Petty Orbeta de Castro and administrative officer Crescenciana Labitad.</div>
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The meeting discussed the VPHCS programs and services in 2013 and first semester of 2014, problems encountered and recommendations to address them. A significant matter was the training center of the VPHCS, Balay Kahimsog in Baclayon, Bohol, particularly measures to intensify its marketing of new clients and generate more income to support the health activities of VPHCS. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>T</b></i></span>he Students Alliance for Community Health Services (SACHS) in Bohol launched its 6th Pencil for a Cause in Barangay Nueva Vida in Loon, Bohol last June 29, 2014. Beneficiaries of the activity were 120 school children from day care to grade 6 of the elementary school.</div>
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The activity was held together with the turn-over ceremony of a newly built classroom from the VPHCS to the Loon local government unit. </div>
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The activity is a yearly outreach project of the SACHS whose members are mostly nursing students of different schools in Tagbilaran City . They collected school supplies used by nursing graduates for the review and examination of the Nursing Board Licensure and solicited plastic envelope, paper, notebook, pencils, ball pens, erasers, sharpeners and rulers that were given to the children in the barangay elementary school. </div>
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The Panaghugpong sa mga Mag-uuma ug Mananagat sa Loon (PAMMALO or United Farmers and Fisherfolks in Loon) had requested the VPHCS for a school building in Barangay Nueva Vida Elementary School following the destruction of the classrooms in the barangay during the 7.2 earthquake last Oct. 15. The VPHCS then requested the support of Task Force Carabao – Germany which is a group of German individuals who has long contributed funds to support health projects of the VPHCS in Bohol, the last of which was a medical mission for children in Nueva Vida in 2013. </div>
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After the construction of the classroom which now accommodates the Grade 1 and 2 classes, a turn-over ceremony of the building to the local government unit was held last June 29, 2014. </div>
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The turn-over of the symbolic key of responsibility started from VPHCSI Executive Director Dr. Petty O. de Castro, VPHCSI-Bohol Project Coordinator Dr. Grace C. Molina and Mrs. Olympia S. Maldos, Chairperson of Panaghugpong sa Mag-uuma ug Mangingisda sa Loon (PAMMALO), to Provincial Board Member Hon. Ceasar Tomas M. Lopez who is the Chairman Committee on Education, to Mayor Lloyd Peter M. Lopez and Councilor Lydia Almasa, to Ms. Zelda Lungat, representative from Department of Education at the same time the coordinating principal of Loon North, to Barangay Captain Rey Cano, to Mr. Romualdo Pedrablanca who is the president of the Parents Teachers Community Association and lastly to Mrs. Rosalina Salomon who is the head teacher of Nueva Vida Elementary School. </div>
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The school room project gained much appreciation from the local government unit as well as from the teachers and parents. They were so happy to receive it and promised to take good care of it.</div>
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The activity is part of the Bulig Katilingban: Task Force on Emergency Response (TFER) of the IFI-Parish of the Holy Child in Sta. Fe. It was held in the covered gymnasium in the poblacion of Sta. Fe. </div>
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A total of 619 residents of Sta. Fe benefited from the services, 236 boys were circumcised, 217 had dental services of teeth extraction, cleaning and filling of cavities, and 166 received correction reading glasses. Some 100 boys also received toothbrushes and took fluoride.</div>
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The VPHCS sent a team of 21 volunteers of nurses and doctors and community health workers and provided the instruments for the tuli. The CDS had 7 dentists and 5 dental students of the Southwestern University College of Dentistry. The mobile dental van of the Juanito I. King Foundation provided additional dental services. Three practicing optometrists fitted the reading glasses. The IFI- Sta. Fe youth group manned the registration and ensured the smooth flow of the services.</div>
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The team departed from Cebu City in the dawn of May 17 and arrived in Sta. Fe before lunch. An opening program followed where Fr. Marciano Carabio, the Diocesan Program Coordinator of the Task Force on Emergency Response gave the opening prayers. Edgar Gahisan, R.N. VPHCS staff member introduced the team of volunteers. </div>
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While the boys were waiting for their turn to start the tuli, the dental team assembled the boys in rows and applied fluoride fluid on their teeth. The following day, before the tuli started, the waiting boys were given toothbrushes and taught the correct way to tooth brush. Proper hand washing was also taught to the boys while singing the song, Happy Birthday. </div>
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Medical student volunteers of the Gullas College of Medicine and VPHCS physician Dr. Erlinda Posadas circumcised ten boys in the small village of St. Mary Grace in Talamban, Cebu City last May 3.<br />
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<i> The team with residents of St. Mary Grace in Talamban</i>.</div>
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<i>Gullas College of Medicine students in the tuli </i></div>
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The tuli was held in coordination with the St. Mary Grace Homeowners Association. The students are members of the Medical Students Association for Voluntary and Exemplary Services (MedSaves) in Gullas College of Medicine which was formed as an offshoot of the series of operation tuli in 2013 of the VPHCS where they volunteered. They included the following students, namely: Precious Dennica Pepito, Sandley Sabang Jr., John Paul Maderazo, David Jaque, Andrew James Claudio, Nuelan Cyril Lucenio, Jaypher Villafuerte and Lucita Cimafranca.<br />
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<i>The team with residents of St. Mary Grace in Talamban.</i></div>
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On May 7, VPHCS team of doctors, nurses, medical students and volunteers joined the annual operation tuli in the Municipality of Baclayon, Bohol where more than 250 boys were circumcised. The local government unit of Baclayon sponsored the tuli. The VPHCS team which helped the staff of the Baclayon Rural Health Unit was composed of Dr. Grace Molina, Dr. Oliver Gimenez, Dr. Lilia Hernandez, Dr. Posadas, Irish Ramirez, Lourdes Geolin, Tardy Guardiario, Pearl Templado, Chester Lagado, and Edgar Gahisan. Gullas College of Medicine students Precious Dennica Pepito, Sandley Sabang, John Paul Maderazo. Nursing students of the Students’ Alliance for Community Health Services (SACHS) also assisted in the services.<br />
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<i>and his sister during the tuli in Baclayon.</i></div>
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<i> A pose of the team in the tuli in Baclayon on May 7.</i></div>
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Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03074091656166530585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4210870528957283475.post-10006585169038761332014-03-26T13:30:00.000-07:002014-04-18T22:25:39.391-07:00Joy and Hope<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>T</i></b></span><i>o all those I know or have met: There is very little I can do; I can at least write about them and the people who dedicate their lives to help them.</i></div>
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Many donors, local and international, have expressed the desire to direct their aid to rehabilitation, even only a few days after Typhoon Haiyan, called Yolanda locally. There seemed to be adequate international emergency response. Many however were aware that the rehabilitation of the people will take months, if not years. </div>
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On the first 2 weeks of March, I went with a team on medical missions to Burauen Leyte, ravaged by Yolanda in Nov, and visited Tacloban City on my own; then to Inabanga Bohol, destroyed by an earthquake a month earlier. On March 22-23, I went with the same team for psychosocial follow up visits to Daan Bantayan and San Remegio, both at the northern tip of Cebu mainland. Part of the team proceeded to the island of Quinatarkan. All these were hard hit by Yolanda.</div>
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What I came away with these experiences were joy and intense sorrow and some confusion. Joy and hope with the dedication and focus of the community workers. Joy and hope at the resilience and Faith of the people, many whom described themselves as <i>"malampuson ug naningkamot" </i>(persevering and keeps trying).</div>
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When I returned to the Holy Spirit Convent to spend the night, before I took the ferry home, I knelt before the Blessed Sacrament and cried. Tears could not have burned hotter in my confusion: why O God do so many have so little, suffer so much, yet thank God first of all for their survival; and why do those who have so much, pay so little, think of the poor as lazy? Why are the nations so responsible for pollution that changes the climate, not bear the brunt of its tragic effects? Where is justice? How can modern youth keep Faith, seeing this so universal unfairness: the 1% vs the ninety nine? Is the parable of the rich man and the beggar Lazarus at his gate really believable?</div>
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Donors need not be concerned. In the over 36 years I have been away from the Philippines, many sectors have achieved pride in their nationality and identify with its people, the majority of whom still remain poor or live very remotely. The "1% vs the ninety nine" cannot be owned by any country. Many Americans already claim this.</div>
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What I had the privilege of witnessing and working with were groups of citizens who have coalesced to be relief workers in disasters; community organizers, teachers and conduits of aid from international agencies during recovery and "normal" times. Most are young who have spent part or much of their lives, part time or full time, trying to realize their idealism: health professionals or graduates of the Arts, farmers, fisher folk, housewives or school dropouts.</div>
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When I discussed with a Washington psychiatrist about training the community workers on the psychosocial aspect of disaster response and rehabilitation, I was very happy thinking it was a novel idea. But they were on the 3rd year of intermittent training, which started when they realized the need after a medical mission following the 2012 earthquake in Guihulngan Negros Oriental. The workers were grateful for the present funding, as it allowed the hiring of professional speakers to train more workers and give updates to those previously trained.<br />
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The Visayas Primary Health Care Services is the team I have worked with for decades, and for whom the FilAm Center for Community and Development (FACCHD) has given financial support since 1995. The "development of relevant, effective, affordable, and accessible health care" is its goal. Over the years, it has linked with many other privately funded groups: CERNET (funding from Germany); FARDEC (funding from Bread for the World); MAGNA (funding from a Protestant group) etc. Some of the organizations they link up with (MAGNA for example) worked through the DOH or DSWD during this disaster, such as in the psychosocial training. So I am hopeful that with the same training given to governmental agencies, they too will conscientiously conduct the psychosocial sessions I have seen being done on my trips.</div>
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These psychosocial interventions happen after the initial relief services of food and temporary shelter distribution and response to immediate health care needs. As one community leader aptly put it "after a natural calamity always follow health problems." <i>(Human sa katilingban, musonod gyud ang problema sa panglawas.")</i></div>
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There are at least 3 sessions lasting half to a full day each. The first session is allowing the community to unload; very emotional, many express grief, some express anger; children sessions apart from the adults. The teams bring the food which the communities prepare or cook so everyone can eat until the session is over. Sessions are facilitated initially by psychologists in the presence of those trained in disaster responses. Subsequent sessions are conducted by the trained community workers.</div>
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The community is then allowed to process and come to grips with their loss and new situation: lost means of livelihood or crops, homelessness, etc. The team returns several weeks later for a follow up session. This time the facilitator tries to evoke responses by allowing each to draw the Tree of Life: the roots are his/her name and Barangay, the trunk how the person perceives her or himself; the leaves are his/her dreams; the fruit what gives happiness and to write on the side who he or she wish to thank. The third session is brainstorming and planning with the people on what they can do for disaster preparedness, with the trained facilitator giving pointers/ideas that the community might decide they can adopt.</div>
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In the Barangays I went to, the families decided to form into a cohesive group. FARDEC or Farmers’ Development Center will supply materials for reconstruction; labor will be <i>"bayanihan"</i> or community effort.</div>
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I reviewed the drawings before they were returned to the people. Their self-perception was encouraging: <i>malampuson</i> or persevering; <i>maloloyon</i> or compassionate, <i>matinabangon</i> or helpful. Their dreams were so universal; except for <i>"makatindog akong balay"</i> or reconstruction of my house, many wrote the education and prosperity of their children. Who they felt grateful to had one consistent answer: God. Then came family and the relief workers.</div>
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There is much more that need to be done; many more resources needed from government and private sectors. But I feel hope that with a little material help, these people shall rise again. Their lives are simple; their needs are the basics of life. </div>
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Come to think of it, maybe the wealthy need our prayers more, <i>"kay ang mga pobre kanunay nga dunay malampusong pangandoy"</i>. (For the poor always have their persevering hope").</div>
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<i>March 24, 2014</i><br />
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<i>Lilia G. Hernandez, M.D. is a very good friend of the VPHCS and an ardent advocate of community-based health programs in the Philippines. She practices pediatrics in California and visits the Philippines regularly to render her services in the communities served by the VPHCS. She is the President of the Board of Trustees of the Fil-Am Center for Community Health and Development (FACCHD) in Pleasanton, California which has supported the VPHCS since 1995. </i><i><div style="display: inline !important;">
<i>She is a graduate of the University of Santo Tomas, Class 1974 and a Silver Jubilarian Awardee for Community Service in Philly (1979). She wrote these reflections to her classmates in the <a href="mailto:USTMedicine1974@yahoogroups.com">USTMedicine1974@yahoogroups.com</a> on Mar 24, 2014. </i></div>
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</i>Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03074091656166530585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4210870528957283475.post-50230977832120222322014-03-24T23:52:00.000-07:002014-04-18T23:14:42.195-07:00Psychosocial support services for survivors of Typhoon Yolanda in Northern Cebu<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<i>VPHCS staff Irish Grace Ramirez discusses </i></div>
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The missions sites were as follows, namely: Barangays Kampinganon, Lipayran and Patao in Bantayan, Barangays Kaungkod, San Agustin, Bonacan in Madridejos, Barangays Bateria, Malbago and Tominhao in Daanbantayan, Barangays Bitoon, Langub and Hagdan in Kinatarcan island, Sta.Fe., Barangay Tambungan in San Remegio, Barangays Pulambato and Gairan in Bogo City, and Barangays Cagcagan, Northern Poblacion, Puertobellow, Kawit and San Juan in Camotes Island.<br />
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<i> A children's play therapy in Lipayran, Bantayan, February 23.</i></div>
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<i>In Lipayran, Bantayan, Feb.23</i></div>
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<i>In Camotes, March 2.</i></div>
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The services are part of the rehabilitation project, Building Resilient Communities In Facing Natural Calamities – Phase I, implemented by the Central Visayas Farmers Development Center (FARDEC) with the support of the Action Aid.</div>
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The six-month project aims to provide relief, housing materials, livelihood assistance, and rehabilitation services to families in the 20 barangays that were affected by the typhoon. It also aims to organize people’s organizations that shall become resilient in facing future calamities including formation of working committees on disaster preparedness. </div>
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The psychosocial missions of the VPHCS are part of the rehabilitation services for the affected families.</div>
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Each psychosocial intervention started with a disaster education which mainly consisted of information regarding the scientific explanation of the occurrence of earthquakes, typhoons, landslides, and floods and other calamities, and basic information on disaster preparedness and management. This information would not only increase knowledge of the affected communities but would also ease their tensions as they can now explain scientifically the causes of disasters. Even the basic knowledge on what to do during disasters is a form of healing for the affected communities. </div>
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After the lecture on disaster education, discussion on the “Impact and reaction to trauma” was held which deepened the different effects that typhoon Yolanda had on the people, including economic losses, emotional, social, mental, behavioral and physical ailments. This was followed by a discussion on the “Five steps for psychosocial support” which outlines the five role of a psychosocial caregiver in the community, namely: active listening, relive and regrieve, recreation, rebuild and referral. </div>
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<i>Mothers in Camotes island share their stories, March 3.</i></div>
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After the forum, a pre-test was conducted on the assessment of the feelings during the disaster and a post-test of the feelings felt at present. The two tests were filled up by all the survivors that would identify those who needed psychosocial therapy.</div>
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This was then followed by stress debriefing through group therapy. Here, the residents were grouped into groups of 10 to 20. Each group had a therapist who facilitated the survivors to express their experiences and their feelings before and during the typhoon, and how these affected them . They narrated their flashbacks of what happened during the typhoon. They shared symptoms they had after the disaster that included headaches, difficulty of sleeping, feelings of anxiety, irritability, inability to concentrate, lack of appetite, depression, nervousness, symptoms of numbness of feet, pounding of the heart, and stomach problems. </div>
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The residents said they didn’t expect Typhoon Yolanda to be that strong. There was extreme fear that another typhoon would occur again which could even be stronger than Yolanda. </div>
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They also answered the facilitators’ questions on what they did to conquer their fears, what keeps them to move on with life and what are their coping mechanisms. It was heart warming that the people clinched to their hopes with the consolation of being still alive. </div>
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Most of them said that they need to move on since they have families, and that their peoples’ organization was actively looking after the welfare of the members, especially in the orderly management of relief operations being extended by many civic and charitable organizations. </div>
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Many also said that they have attributed their strength in their conviction and belief that there was still the existence of God and this faith would alleviate their emotional and psychological burden. </div>
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At the end of each session, the facilitator identified those who really needed psychosocial and psychiatric treatment for them to fully recover from their trauma.</div>
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The children had psychosocial activities. In play therapy, the facilitator engaged groups of children in play in order to draw out their feelings of fear and anger. The facilitator then processed the emotions expressed during the play. In art therapy, the children expressed their feelings through drawings after which the facilitator processed the projections of the children. The children enjoyed their play and art therapy as they shared their drawings to everyone. They also shared experiences during the disaster. The team didn’t see any abnormal behaviour during their play and drawing sessions. </div>
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Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03074091656166530585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4210870528957283475.post-80396315760174545442014-03-20T11:30:00.000-07:002014-04-18T22:27:37.318-07:00When disaster hits home<i><b>By Lilia G. Hernandez, M.D.</b></i><br />
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I had not been to Aceh Indonesia after their tsunami or to Haiti after their destructive earthquake. But in the past 10 days, I have been to Leyte and Bohol. The damage here may have been on a lesser scale, the earthquake in Bohol; the typhoon in Leyte. But the disaster cannot be less for the residents.</div>
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Tacloban has never been “home” in my heart. However, my father was born there and there grew up a <i>“canto boy”</i> till self-awareness and love brought him to Manila to better himself. To Tacloban he returned on the last 4 years of his life. And there I lived and studied my Pre-Med. All of us emigrated, but 3 nieces and a nephew still live there. So, after a medical mission in the remote barangay Dinaayan in Burauen, Leyte, I went to Tacloban City.</div>
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The devastation seen as one drives through the streets, now open but not quite repaired, is so mind numbing, one either gets used to the sight and cease to be affected, or gets so distressed one has to have a sense of humor to stay sane. Some of the highway center islands were made into burial ground with crosses and mourners visible still. Even the coconut trees tell the story: like a woman with disheveled hair blown by the wind from her back, the coconut palms are in one direction, telling of the force and direction of the wind. Many stand like amputated arms reaching out from the ground, probably wailing with the people when the storm passed. Wailing could still be heard where people are trying to rebuild. The day I arrived, people talked of 4 more dead bodies found in San Jose, 4 months to the day after the killer typhoon.</div>
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CNN showed a powerful image of a huge red and black cargo ship beached by Yolanda. There is not one but 2 ships, however, one slightly smaller to the right of the well-publicized one. Imagine the people killed when the ship plowed over the houses on its way up the slope of the hill to its current location. Today shanties of tarp and recovered materials have been hastily rebuilt between the shore and the ship. I saw men working on the hull, and one lowering a pail to get water from a well beside the ship. Possibly, that was the community well long before the ship changed the landscape.</div>
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Everyone I met in Tacloban had a story to tell. The one that hit closest to home was about Michelle, my niece, who but for a wire attached to a fence, could have drowned. She, her 16 yr. old daughter and 1 yr. old son and the son’s father, Rodel, all live in a squatter area close to the sea, the area swept by the 30 ft. storm surge. She described early morning of Nov 8, 2014, when all of a sudden, the water was up to her neck. She and her daughter tried to cross the street to a fenced park on the slope of a hill. They were able to stand on the fence, holding on to a “wire on the fence” to keep their heads above the water. Rodel and their infant son were helped by the neighbors to cross to the hillside. Mercifully, she said, the water did not stay long, “it was sucked back by the sea”. They then walked higher up the hill towards the City Hall where there were other government buildings. Together with the other survivors they stayed there for over 36 hours, wet and cold, with no food or water. On Sunday (the typhoon hit Friday morning) they started walking to Quarry, the district where her sister and Rodel’s family lived. Michelle and her family suffered the trauma of near death experience; their house, all the food kept in preparation for the typhoon, all their clothing and belongings swept by the storm. What remained was buried in mud. Still hopeful, she retrieved her and her daughter’s uniforms, and tried to wash them back to some decent appearance. All employees and students go to work or school in uniforms. Talk of the resilience of Filipinos! And there are many more sad stories told by the residents but also of compassion and heroism.</div>
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Bohol is the island where I live when in the Philippines. Last weekend, I joined a team for a medical mission to Barangay Cambitoon, in Inabanga, close to the epicenter of the 7.2 quake in October. Along the way were the ruins of Bohol’s pride: the 17th century Catholic Churches. Made of cut limestone, the beautiful Loon and Clarin Church were literally pulverized. What remains are mounds of whitish sandy material! I have not seen the ruins of the other churches. Quite visible from the highway are the damaged homes; a few 2 -3 story structures sunk into the earth, with only the top floor visible.</div>
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As I sit to meditate on the events of the past 2 weeks, it only helps me to realize again and again, there is a Force greater than man. And there is an inherent goodness in the human heart.</div>
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<i>Lilia G. Hernandez, MD <br /><br />March 17, 2014<br /></i><br />
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G. Hernandez, M.D. is a very good friend of the VPHCS and an ardent advocate of community-based health
programs in the Philippines. She practices pediatrics in California and visits
the Philippines regularly to render her services in the communities served by
the VPHCS. She is the President of the Board of Trustees of the Fil-Am Center
for Community Health and Development (FACCHD) in Pleasanton, California which
has supported the VPHCS since 1995. </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">She is a graduate of the
University of Santo Tomas, Class 1974 and a Silver Jubilarian Awardee for Community Service in
Philly (1979). She wrote these
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>T</i></b></span>he Visayas Primary Health Care Services (VPHCS) continues to render homeopathy services for indigent patients under the tutelage of German homeopathic doctor Norbert Enders.</div>
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In its recent mission Jan. to March this year, Dr. Enders, a member of the French organization <a href="http://www.solidarite-homeopathie.org/" target="_blank">Solidarite Homeopathie</a> (SH) saw and treated more patients coming from urban poor communities in Cebu City. Dr. Enders also rendered his services for poor farmers during medical missions in Barangay Dinaayan, Municipality of Burauen in Leyte, Barangay Cambitoon, Municipality of Inabanga in Bohol, and Barangay Planas, Guihulngan, Negros Oriental. These are mountain barangays that were affected by the past typhoons and earthquakes. </div>
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Dr. Enders who is practicing in France has been training the staff of the VPHCS staff on the practice of homeopathy and treating indigent Cebuanos with homeopathy since 2008. He has given the staff systematic, comprehensive and quality trainings on the basic theories and practice of homeopathy, different remedies and indications, common illnesses and remedies, making a patient profile and arriving at a remedy, and other topics on homeopathy. Actual patients were also seen and treated during the trainings aside from lectures. </div>
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Clinics of the staff with Dr. Enders were held during his recent mission in Sitio Lawis in Barangay Pasil and Sitio St. Mary Grace in Barangay Talamban, both of which are poor communities in Cebu City More than 200 patients were seen, treated and managed properly with homeopathy. Records and pictures of each patient were properly taken and kept in the office computers for documentation and file purposes. The trained staff actively treated the patients with Dr. Enders. Most of the patients who were also seen the past years claimed improvement of their symptoms with their treatment.<br />
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Homeopathy is a non-toxic system of medicine used to treat illness and relieve discomfort of a wide variety of health conditions. It is practiced by health care providers including medical physicians, chiropractors, homeopathic physicians, midwives and many others throughout the world.</div>
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Founded by German doctor Samuel Hahnemann in the 1790s, homeopathy is the art and the science of healing the sick by using substances capable of causing the same symptoms, syndromes and conditions when administered to healthy people, treating like with like (Similia similibus curentur), aiming to stimulate self-healing processes. </div>
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<i> With local residents in Dinaayan, Burauen, Leyte.</i></div>
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Homeopathy uses over 2,000 different remedies which are chosen to suit a patient's characteristics, as well as to treat his symptoms. Information on such remedies has been collected for nearly 200 years. Clinical cases and recent scientific trials using these remedies have been documented.</div>
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Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03074091656166530585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4210870528957283475.post-65012305644745549112014-03-16T23:33:00.000-07:002014-04-14T23:48:43.714-07:00Medical mission in Bohol<div class="MsoNormal">
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<i>Dalaguete MHO Dr. Jose Edgar Alonso examines a patient</i>.</div>
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The mission was held last March 15 in Barangay Cambitoon, a far-flung barangay in the town of Inabanga, Bohol where the epicenter of the earthquake hit. More than 250 patients availed of medical check consultations and medicines and psychosocial counseling. Some patients came from neighboring mountain barangays. </div>
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The medical and psychosocial services mission was supported by the Fil-Am Center for Community Health and Development (FACCHD), Task Force Carabao, and Action Medeor. It was held in coordination with the Nagkahiusang Mag-uuma sa Inabanga (NAMAINA), the local government unit of Inabanga, and the Barangay Council of Cambitoon </div>
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The medical and psychosocial team was composed of VPHCS staff and volunteers Dr. Petty Orbeta de Castro, Dr. Lilia Hernandez, Dr. Norbert Enders, Dr, Jose Edgar Alonso, Dr. Erlinda Posadas, Dr. Grace Molina, Irish Grace Ramirez, R.N., Cebu Velez General Hospital post-graduate interns Dr. Vaughn Cesar Edulan, Nikko dela Cruz and JP Sepe, Gullas College of Medicine medical interns Irving Grecia and Stacey Lape, Cebu Institute of Medicine medical interns Karina Monica Borromeo, Giancarlo Bascon, Christine Escarpe and Charles Mark Loquere, and nursing students belonging to the Student Alliance for Community Health Services (SACHS) based in Tagbilaran City. </div>
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Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03074091656166530585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4210870528957283475.post-51528290796884208902014-03-12T10:30:00.000-07:002014-04-14T22:50:04.345-07:00Medical mission in Leyte<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Burauen is a first class municipality in the central part of Leyte, about two hours travel time from Tagbilaran. It was badly hit by Typhoon Yolanda; coconut trees and crops were destroyed and houses were damaged. There were however no reported deaths.<br />
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Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03074091656166530585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4210870528957283475.post-61598934551514205222014-02-10T10:30:00.000-08:002014-04-18T01:44:09.796-07:00Medical care and psychosocial services for survivors of Typhoon Yolanda in Northern Cebu<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>T</i></b></span>he Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc. (VPHCS) recently conducted two medical and psychosocial support services missions in two municipalities in Cebu which were affected by Typhoon Yolanda, </div>
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The missions were conducted in Barangay Batirya, municipality of Daanbantayan approximately 147 kms. at the northern most tip of Cebu on Feb. 1, 2013 and Barangay San Agustin in the municipality of Madridejos in the island of Bantayan which lies to the west of the northern tip of Cebu. </div>
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Being located in the northern part of Cebu made them suffer from the wrath of Typhoon Yolanda last November 8, 2013, with many of the houses damaged or toppled down and people rendered homeless and fields of crops and fishing boats destroyed. </div>
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The missions were supported by funds raised by Gary W. King, Ph.D., a philanthropist based in Minnesota who is supporting the Philippine Scholars Foundation which has a college scholarship for indigent families in Cebu City. </div>
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Nearly 600 residents in the two communities were given medical services by our medical team of eight doctors. The medical cases included upper respiratory tract infections, tension headache, tuberculosis, hypertension, skin infections, peptic ulcer disease, anemia, pneumonia, urinary tract infection, and muscle fatigue. All of these diseases were adequately managed in the medical mission with the medicines that were brought by the team. </div>
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Several adults also were also seen by the psychosocial team of psychologists and trained counsellors for problems of nervousness, difficulty in sleeping, headaches, irritability and other psychosocial problems which were felt in the aftermath of the typhoon. The psychosocial intervention consisted of stress debriefing through group therapy. Here, the therapists facilitated the survivors to express their experiences and their feelings and how these affected them and to draw out their coping mechanisms. At the end of the sessions, the facilitators identified those who really needed psychosocial and psychiatric treatment which will be done in a follow up mission. </div>
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There were also psychosocial activities for children which comprised of play therapy wherein the facilitators engaged the children in play in order to draw out their feelings of fear and anger. The facilitators then processed the emotions expressed during the play. Other activities included art therapy where the children expressed their feelings through drawings after which the facilitators processed the projections of the children. A total of 150 children were beneficiaries in the activities.</div>
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Aside from eight doctors and eight psychologists and counselors, the volunteers in the medical and psychosocial services included six VPHCS staff and eight regular VPHCS volunteers of nurses, nursing students and community health workers. A total of 30 persons comprised the team. The missions were also held in partnership with the Women’s Resource Center of Visayas, Inc. (WRCV) which has organized women’s organization in the two areas and provided relief and rehabilitation services for survivors of the typhoon. </div>
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Generally, the residents expressed their gratitude and joy with the medical and psychosocial activities. The people in both communities really showed the spirit of cooperation, and were very open in expressing their problems, fears and hopes. </div>
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For us in the VPHCS, together with our volunteers, we continue to be overwhelmed whenever we recall the experiences that we shared with the farmers and fisherfolks in the two barangays. They are simple, hard-working toilers of the land and fishers of the seas who have simple needs and yet are contented with their lives. We derive inspiration from their toils and their struggles as we reaffirm the values of painstaking work. At the same time, we also recognize the omnipotence and might of the Creator. Being with the children also gave us a sense of joy as they displayed the traits of being simple, truthful and candid. </div>
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The people in the northern towns of Cebu indeed have suffered from the disaster that was Typhoon Yolanda and other calamities in the past but they have emerged triumphant and stronger in will and spirit, an indomitable resilience which many of us in the city may not have. We have much to learn from them, indeed. </div>
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Three members of the group arrived in Cebu and met last January 31 with staff of the Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc. who had prepared and packed the goods. </div>
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Jojie Lopez, Amor Gamponia, and Raf Lim had earlier joined the Filipino American Physicians of Washington in its annual medical mission in Cavite, Laguna early in January before going to Cebu. </div>
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The three Filipinos said that they solicited funds for the relief goods from their friends in Seattle including the members of the Team Mang Cycling group and Life after Forty Basketball League. </div>
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The office is a spacious two-storey house situated in in 2681 V. Rama Ave, Guadalupe. It has an office, library, conference room, and clinic dubbed as the Remedios~Aurora Clinic.<br />
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The house is owned by the family of the late Aurora Fernandez, R.N. , a member of the Board of Trustees of the VPHCS who was a close friend of the VPHCS. When she retired as a public health nurse in Berkeley, California, U.S.A., and came back to the Philippines, Aurora volunteered in the VPHCS community-based health programs in Cebu and Bohol and programs and advocated for the protection of the environment. </div>
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Before her untimely death in September 2012 in her Oakland home in California, Aurora expressed her desire to have her house in Guadalupe be used by the VPHCS for its services for the poor.</div>
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Visayas Primary Health Care Services, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03074091656166530585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4210870528957283475.post-17556134800635366632014-01-12T12:00:00.000-08:002014-04-14T22:35:55.287-07:00Training on psychosocial support <div style="text-align: justify;">
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The training was participated in by volunteers including doctors, nurses, nursing students, psychologists and psychology students in the Institute of Religion and Culture on Jan. 4 – 5, 2014. </div>
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Speakers and resource persons in the training included Ma. Antonella Codeneira, psychologist of the Center for Behavioral Sciences of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center, Emmanuel Hernani, psychology professor, guidance counselor and Dean of Student Affairs of the Cebu Normal University, and psychologist Gilbert Kagakit. The training was facilitated by Edgar Gahisan, a community health nurse and community mental health and psychiatric nurse, a former clinical instructor and now team leader for the Magna Children at Risk program on MHPSS in Daanbantayan, Cebu. </div>
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The training provided the participants with knowledge and skills to be able to render psychosocial services to survivors of the earthquake and typhoon in the Visayas areas. Topics included the following, namely: natural and human-induced disasters and complex emergencies within a psychosocial approach, self-awareness, well-being, resilience and coping, grief and grief processing, how to conduct a therapeutic interview, facilitation and communication skills, psychological first aid, psychosocial processing, protecting vulnerable groups, and group processing. </div>
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Workshops and role playing facilitated by the resource persons greatly expounded on the topics that were discussed. </div>
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The volunteers are expected to apply their knowledge and skills in upcoming psychosocial services in areas affected by the typhoon in Cebu, Bohol and Leyte.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>I</i></b></span>n response to the October 15 earthquake and Typhoon Yolanda disasters, the Visayas Primary Health Care Services, rendered medical services to survivors of the calamites. </div>
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Medical and psychosocial support services were held during a relief mission on Nov. 30 in Barangay Bahi, Loon and Dec. 1 in Barangay Triple Union in Catigbian in Bohol, which were affected by the earthquake. More than 400 patients availed of medical check consultations and medicines and more than 100 survivors mostly children also had psychosocial therapy.</div>
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<i> Dr. Erlinda Posadas treats a child with cough in Loon mission.</i></div>
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The medical services were part of a relief mission organized by the <a href="http://cernet.com.ph/">Community Empowerment Resource Network, Inc.</a> (CERNET) with the support of the <a href="http://www.diakonie-katastrophenhilfe.de/english.html">Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe</a> (Protestant Agency for Diakonia and Development) based in Germany. CERNET executive director Dr. Oliver Gimenez led the team of the relief mission. Residents of the two and neighboring barangay were given relief goods including rice, canned goods, water and other basic necessities. </div>
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The medical missions were supported by the Task Force Carabao – Germany and the Panaghugpong sa mga Mag-uuma ug Mangingisda sa Loon and the Hugpong sa Mag-uumang Bol-anon. </div>
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The medical team was composed of VPHCS staff and volunteers Dr. Erlinda Posadas, Irish Grace Ramirez, R.N., Lourdes Geolin, Dalaguete MHO Dr. Jose Edgar Alonso, Dr. Ma. Jecyl Amaya-Radam, Dr. Roentgen Amaya, Dr. Grace Molina, Edgar Gahisan, R.N., Mark Balingit, R.N., 13 post-graduate interns of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) led by Dr. Neil Wahing, six volunteer psychologists led by VSMMC psychologist Ma. Antonella Codeneira, and nursing students belonging to the Student Alliance for Community Health Services (SACHS) based in Tagbilaran City. </div>
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The VPHCS also sent a medical team to a medical mission held in barangays Tindog, Don Virgilio, Panugwawan and Lamintak Sur in Medellin on December 4-7, 2013 which was severely affected by Typhoon Yolanda. The medical services were held together with distribution of relief goods for survivors of the typhoon. The relief mission was spearheaded by the Filipino-Americans US based health professionals. More than 1,400 families benefitted from the relief mission. VPHCS team included Irish Grace Ramirez, R.N., Lourdes Geolin and Edgar Gahisan, R.N.</div>
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Another team was also sent by the VPHCS to a medical mission in the municipality of Orrmoc and in Barangay Lonoy, Kananga, Leyte. The medical mission was organized by the Samahang Operation Sagip (SOS) which is a medical program of the <a href="http://chdphilippines.org/384_phils/">Council for Health and Development</a> (CHD) that responds to calamities. More than 50 doctors, nurses, psychologists and volunteers rendered medical services for more than hundreds of residents who were affected by Typhoon Yolanda. The VPHCS team included Dr. Jose Edgar Alonso, Irish Grace Ramirez, R.N. and Clay Ordona.</div>
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