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Last July 25, as part of our Nutrition Month celebrations, the Municipal health Office conducted the Well-Baby Contest. The competition was open to all babies 9-month old and above with the following criteria: Fully immunized child, newborn screened, exclusively breastfed up to at least 6 months, developmental milestones at par with age and of course, with very cuddly appearance. The winner of the contest will represent Candoni during the inter-local health zone competition in August 14, 2008 in Sipalay.

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Not everyone who are alone are lonely, but if they are, then they must be the loneliest. How does one suvive loneliness? Loneliness can be lethal. People get sick from being lonely too long. It is natural to feel a little bit of sadness from time to time, if only to help us appreciate the happiness in our lives. It keeps us balanced. But to live a life filled with sadness, being alone, with no one to talk to, I cannot imagine such a life. Those who live in the shadows of sadness can be deceiving. They live incognito, walk around the streets with masks that veil their overwhelming pain. People who even laugh the most are those who have cried the most. Their brief moments of happiness keep their sad life "balanced". Everyday, in my clinic, I get to have patients, elderly ones, who would relate to me their sad tales in life. One patient was brought to the emergency room with a board-like abdomen, with episodes of hematemesis and melena. It was a surgical emergency and we were su...

These pictures are long overdue. Last June, my RHU staff decided to head to the Beach and celebrate a fun weekend with co-workers and their family. So we all went to Hinigaran and enjoyed the sun, sea and sand (well, it was mostly the poolside!) with family and friends.

Busy, busy, busy. Keep busy. That's the motto of the RHU of Candoni the past few weeks. Other than planning for our Nutrition Month Activities for July, (we will be holding a well-baby contest next Friday), there have been many projects that kept us busy the past few weeks. One of those projects is the application of all 9 barangays for the Botika ng Barangay. When I first arrived in Candoni in December, the first thing that I noticed was the lack of accredited pharmacy. Most of my patients would travel to Kabankalan (a good 40 kilometers away from Candoni) just to buy the needed medications. I immediately gathered the barangay captains, their kagawads for health and their barangay midwives and proposed to them the old concept of the Botika ng Barangay. There used to be many Botikas ng Barangay here and in fact there is one existing Botika but only in the Poblacion area. The barangay captains were reluctant to apply for a BnB license because they are afraid it might not prosper. Ne...

Last July 17, 2008, the Community Health Allies and Reform Team or C.H.A.R.T. was formally launched in Candoni. Together with Maja Japzon, our PHM and Jonah Malunes, RN, I conducted a sort-of Community Diagnosis Workshop which was attended by Brgy. Captains, Brgy. Kagawads, Teachers, NGO's, and other community leaders in Candoni. The objective was to form a group which will become a vehicle for community participation in the planning, organizing and implementation of their primary health care. During the workshop, we conducted Situational Analysis, SWOT analysis, Problem Prioritization, Strategic Planning and Action Plan Formulation. At the end of the day, the CHART participants elected their officers. Below is the rationale I formulated for CHART. Hopefully, Candonians can sustain this pioneering endeavor and become an effective partner of the Municipal Health office in the delivery of the basic health services in Candoni. Rationale: Health is the responsibility of everyone . The...

Yesterday, our new Public Health Manager arrived in Candoni. Her name is Maja Japzon, a graduate of U.P. Manila. She is one of five public health managers deployed by Central Office nationwide. The four other PHMS were deployed in Aklan, Cebu, Samar and Ilocos. That makes Candoni the only municipality in Negros to have a PHM. Her role is simply to assist me in the non-medical functions of the MHO. She came just in time. I have been planning a lot of activities and programs for Candoni this July and August. One of these programs is the establishment of The Community Health Alliance and Reform Team (C.H.A.R.T.). This group of non-health professionals from different sectors of the community shall act as a consultative assembly and a forum for our health agenda. The key is people empowerment. Through the CHART, we are hopefully making a paradigm shift, telling the people that the health care workers are not the guardians of their health. Health is the responsibility of all. But even before...

Today I am learning about patience, and I think I am failing. I am currently blogging from Iloilo City and I just came from the regional office here. I intended to get my reimbursement from the expenses I have incurred during the last CME for the Doctors to the Barrio program held last May 2008. I submitted my reimbursement last 30th of May and waited for the bureaucracy to proceed on its own. A week before I was scheduled to go to Bohol for the HLMP training, a fellow DTTB deployed in the same region sent me a message that the checks were already there. He was planning to get his by Monday. I told him I had to get mine a week later because I still had to attend the training in Bohol. I was hopeful that I could my check by the time I drop by the office in Iloilo City. I already planned to go here last Friday, a week after T.S. Frank hit the Visayas. But the erratic schedule of the ferries going to Iloilo prevented me from proceeding here last Friday. So I rescheduled my trip to Iloilo ...

Just want to bump this post about my first cousin's achievement in the United States. "Mae Nillos was selected for the best student poster presentation, and Mary Ann Rempel won best student platform presentation at the recent meeting of the Southern California SETAC chapter. The conference was held on April 9-10 at Lake Arrowhead. Mae and Mary Ann beat out students from UCLA, UC Berkeley, Cal State Long Beach, and Loyola Marymount for the awards. Mae's poster was titled "Investigation of the enantioselective endocrine disruption effects of synthetic pyrethroids." Mary Ann's talk was titled "Uptake of estradiol from sediment by hornyhead turbot (Pleurnichthys verticalis) and effects on oxidative DNA damage in male gonads." Congratulations to both Mae and Mary Ann for their excellent work." Taken from this link . My cousin Mae finished her bachelor in science major in Chemistry in the University of the Philippines in 1996 and took her Masters in ...

When I was in pre-med and med school I was a prolific poet. I used to write three or four poems in a day. I would then post them in my deviantart page and allow fellow poets to give a critique on my poetry. Some lauded my rhymes. Others would give their 5-cents worth of opinion as to how to improve my art. I would write various types of poems. When I was younger, I would used to write rhyming poems. When I started college, I tried experimenting with my poetry and started to write open poetry. I even tried haiku at some point. I would use my poetry as a ticket to an alternative world, where I play swords with words and win battles in life just by writing about them. In my poetry, I felt a rush of freedom. Call it autistic, but I found comfort in the words which can never be real. Lately though, I had a hard time writing down even a stanza. I felt dried up. My untouched deviantart page is proof of this withered soul. Somehow I felt that I lost my muse and I could no longer write down poe...