Courtesy call to the city mayor was completed. Proposal openly discussed with Mayor Joseph Evangelista and he readily accepted the plan. He suggested that coverage of the mission to be expanded and not limited to 2- 3 barrios. To be more effective, he recommended focusing more on indigent and very sick patients only. Currently, assigned city health workers/midwives are already working in the barangay to identify prospective patients. The health workers and barangay captain will coordinate to the city administrator the number of possible patients which is expected to be around 400 medical patients and 100 dental patients. Transportation will be provided to assist residents from remote areas. The plan is to assign a vehicles to designated areas to transport patients to venue and then back to their area of residence.The city administrator will be the main contact and will able to give more detailed information at a closer date.
Kidapawan City Hospital Out Patient Department
The present situation of the Outpatient Department (OPD) of the city hospital was also discussed. A new building is under construction and expected to be completed within a year. However the present condition of patients seeking consult in the OPD was deemed to be not acceptable. Patients were asked to wait outside the old building due to high volume and limited space. No triage personnel available for the patients while waiting for their number to be called. Patients presenting with different symptoms are waiting in the same area which can present possible cross contamination. There was no available handwashing area, toilets and any other comforting facility. Patients will need to walk along the hospital hallway to avail of handwashing and toilet areas. Although a new OPD building is under construction, the system will remains the same. So there is a high probability that patient seeking consults for cough and cold can come home with diarrhea or other illnesses.
The project coordinator requested if a handwashing area and a toilet can be constructed outside the building under the foundation’s aide. This will be presented to the board and city health officer will be informed when approved.
Since the consultation for outpatients were being performed at the hospital hallway, privacy is next to impossible.
Informal meeting with the rural health workers. Their role in the promotion of health and wellbeing is very vital as they provide first hand communication of the general health and living condition of each barangay.
I can't imagine that the maternal teaching literally happens in the ground level.