The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Department of Health (DOH) last week jointly sponsored a one-day orientation seminar for all personnel of the Philippine National Police (PNP), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), and representatives from other as sectors of the community.
Participants from the PNP included representatives from the 47 municipal police stations and Tagbilaran City Police Station who were registered nurses, nursing graduates and Police Community Relation staff from Loon, Tubigon, Talibon, Carmen, Ubay and a representative of the provincial command.
The orientation seminar on Tuberculosis held on July 15 at JJ's Dimsum, Tagbilaran City, was aimed at establishing a strong provincewide community support for the to campaign against Tuberculosis.
It was held in coordination with the Provincial Health Office (PHO) as the first in a series of scheduled to be held in the future to help acquaint the police, the firefighters and the BJMP personnel on the latest trends to control the spread of TB.
Police Senior Supt. Edgardo Ingking, provincial PNP director, tasked Police Supt. Ernesto Agas, deputy provincial director for administration, to led PNP personnel in the activity..
Dr. Pilar Mabasa of USAID-TB LINC, the main lecturer, presented to the participants the situation which indicates that at present, Philippines posts the ninth largest incidence of tuberculosis in the world, with approximately 390,038 Filipinos having TB and 75 people dying daily from TB.
The TB LINC Project is a new USAID-funded and DOH-led initiative that aims to sustain the coordination and collaboration of TB control partners from both the public and private sectors and support the accomplishment of the Millennium Development Goals to reduce TB prevalence and mortality by half by 2010 through detection and treatment process.
The Bohol PNP participants were composed mostly of registered nurses and nursing graduates are expected to boast the campaign on TB prevention by way of information dissemination, especially to PNP personnel, detainees and the community in particular. SPO4 Lucito Redulla, OIC-PCR BRANCH, BOHOL PPO
Participants from the PNP included representatives from the 47 municipal police stations and Tagbilaran City Police Station who were registered nurses, nursing graduates and Police Community Relation staff from Loon, Tubigon, Talibon, Carmen, Ubay and a representative of the provincial command.
The orientation seminar on Tuberculosis held on July 15 at JJ's Dimsum, Tagbilaran City, was aimed at establishing a strong provincewide community support for the to campaign against Tuberculosis.
It was held in coordination with the Provincial Health Office (PHO) as the first in a series of scheduled to be held in the future to help acquaint the police, the firefighters and the BJMP personnel on the latest trends to control the spread of TB.
Police Senior Supt. Edgardo Ingking, provincial PNP director, tasked Police Supt. Ernesto Agas, deputy provincial director for administration, to led PNP personnel in the activity..
Dr. Pilar Mabasa of USAID-TB LINC, the main lecturer, presented to the participants the situation which indicates that at present, Philippines posts the ninth largest incidence of tuberculosis in the world, with approximately 390,038 Filipinos having TB and 75 people dying daily from TB.
The TB LINC Project is a new USAID-funded and DOH-led initiative that aims to sustain the coordination and collaboration of TB control partners from both the public and private sectors and support the accomplishment of the Millennium Development Goals to reduce TB prevalence and mortality by half by 2010 through detection and treatment process.
The Bohol PNP participants were composed mostly of registered nurses and nursing graduates are expected to boast the campaign on TB prevention by way of information dissemination, especially to PNP personnel, detainees and the community in particular. SPO4 Lucito Redulla, OIC-PCR BRANCH, BOHOL PPO
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