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They have 8 deployed Nurses as part of the Nurse deployment Program of the DOH. There is 1 barangay
health station/barangay. These are staffed with midwives= 1 mw/BHS. Health worker to population ratio is still
within the 1:20,000. Candavid which is a mountainous barangay has a satellite station for health and is the
farthest, and reports to Pagnitoan. Except for Candavid – travel to RHU is 30 minutes over rough roads. The
mode of transport are a modified motorcycle (habal-habal). The other mountainous barangays are Jandig,
Tinigban, Pamintoan which are part of the top 10 most depressed barangays in the municipality according to
the 2010 PDMS.
The BHS services given are antenatal checkup, immunization, wound dressing and BP check-up. Patients
requiring medicines are referred to the RHU. When they are needing higher treatment, they are referred to
the 20 bed capacity provincial subsidized government community hospital. An ambulance is available for the
conduct of patients but is either limited by budgets of gasoline and repairs.
There are 2000+ Philhealth sponsored members with a high utilization rate for pcb and mcp. There are 1,100
National house targeting system (NHTS) patients. The biggest number are seen to cluster in Barangay
Bayacabac which has only a satellite health station, but has the nearby community hospital. Then the other
NHTS families are in Dipatong – 33 families, which is near the existing RHU there.
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