Alamin ang mga hakbang ng DOH upang mapabuti ang coverage ng mga bakuna at paano nila tinutugunan ang pagkalat ng mga sakit tulad ng tigdas, bulutong, at iba pa. Panoorin ang video. #TheMangahasInterviews
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00:00For those who are still young, tigdas and bulutong, it's like the summer period or the time when it's hot.
00:09There are a lot of cases. How can we change the perspective of parents that it's not mpox, maybe it's tigdas or bulutong.
00:20That's right. Mpox is the offspring of smallpox. Smallpox has been eradicated for a long time.
00:27Chickenpox, herpes zoster are the offspring of varicella zoster and herpes zoster. They are the offspring of both of these diseases, measles, chickenpox, bulutong tubig, and herpes.
00:46Those are preventable with vaccines. We call them vaccine-preventable diseases.
00:54We have scheduled the National Immunization Program where children can receive nine vaccines that are vaccine-preventable.
01:07When we came from the outbreak in Barb, because there were a lot of children there who were not vaccinated with measles, we made a measles outbreak response immunization.
01:17We were able to vaccinate 1.2 million children with the help of health workers in Barb.
01:24The spread of measles was confirmed there. It's the same here in Pertusis. A few months ago, all the towns had an outbreak of Pertusis so we did a catch-up immunization.
01:40We had pentavalent vaccine. There are five vaccines, measles, mops, rubella, DPT, diphtheria, Pertusis, and lepinos.
01:50Those are five vaccines that we pushed to give to all children below six years old. Actually, below two should be given and two doses are needed.
02:02It's just a single dose and the parents are really asking for it.
02:07Yes, it's scheduled. To the newly born mothers, they are really asking for vaccines to be given to their children.
02:14The first one is hepatitis, then DCG, then pentavalent vaccines, and actually, we also have a vaccine for nine years old, HPV, human papilloma virus.
02:28This is being bought by the Department of Health and given to other health centers where our LGU is scheduling the injection.
02:37This is free. Others go to their pediatrician, to their own doctor, and pay to get this, those who can afford it, who don't go to the health center.
02:49But in the health center, it's usually available. Sometimes, it's out of stock, especially if it hasn't arrived yet.
02:58But the moment you ask, the moment our stocks arrive, you should get your children vaccinated because these are proven, this is not the newly discovered vaccine,
03:09this is the age-old, 1960s vaccine. If it's not vaccinated, we will have measles and pertusis outbreak.
03:19All right. But the problem is if you have a health center nearby, in remote areas, because sometimes, we can only get close to barangay health stations.
03:29That's right. We are buying this from our government. We spent about P4 billion of tax money to buy all these vaccines.
03:39Then we distribute this to regional offices. Then the regional offices of DOH are giving this to every province and municipality.
03:48Of course, some are running out and some are not being given. That's how it is.
03:55Because we are ratioing it to all the children. We have about two million kids almost every year.
04:05Of all the kids targeted to be vaccinated, what is the coverage that you have achieved so far?
04:12If you're saying there are a lot of vaccines, how many percent of our kids below 6 years old are fully immunized?
04:20Our record is 61%. It should be 95%. That means there are many who are not available for vaccines.
04:30In Malu, we have zero-dose children. This is the child who was not able to receive even one more vaccine.
04:39Zero-dose means the other child who received the first dose is okay. They are protected even partially.
04:45Before, we were number four in the world in the number of zero-dose children.
04:51But because of the efforts of DOH, we went down. We were not in the top five.
04:57We were beaten by the efforts of the health workers. The problem is we were number six.
05:03But slowly, Malu, I feel we can get out of the top ten.
05:08Is there a lack of vaccines, supply, health centers, or funds?
05:13Usually it's the system. I think it's the logistic supply chain management.
05:20I was told that when the mother goes to the health center on her day off, there's no vaccine.
05:27I said, what is this? You go to any island in the Philippines, there's soft drink, there's beer, there's cigarette, you go to Sari-Sari store. Why is it like that?
05:38Of course, it's hard to bring a bag if you travel for a long time.
05:44That's right.
05:46It's really hard because it's a logistics issue in the province.
05:49What I call that, Malu, is the hidden cost of health care.
05:54We analyze that. There's a vaccine in the health center, but they're spending P100 for two passengers, P50 to travel for an hour to get to the health center.
06:07Sometimes they need that money for food.
06:10Correct. All right.
06:11Sometimes, there's no one to take care of the other siblings, the four-year-old, five-year-old. They will bring the newborn, but there's no one to buy it.
06:21It's really hard to go. I said, let's go one by one to find out who's not vaccinated and e-house to house.
06:30Because it's expensive. If you've been to the islands in the Philippines, in the provinces, the health center is really far.
06:37Most of the time, it's far. Sometimes, they don't know where the health center is.
06:42What day the doctor or nurse is there.
06:44That's right. Or if the vaccine is available.
06:47That's one of our difficulties.
06:49We call that the hidden cost of health care.
06:53Unless you bring it, you won't be vaccinated.
06:57So my order to DOH is to partner with the barangay health worker and go to Purok.
07:03I call it Purok Kalusugan.
07:05Go to Purok. There are Purok leaders there.
07:08They know who are the children under six in one area.
07:12They know who are the pregnant mothers.
07:15They know who are the elderly with diabetes and hypertension.
07:18Let's find them and offer the health services.
07:22It's a different mentality because before, they were just waiting at the health center.
07:27If there's no massage and no time, they won't go there.
07:32If you go to a house, you say you will get vaccinated.
07:36We heard that you are two years old.
07:38Here, we brought the vaccine.
07:40You can talk to your grandmother.
07:42You can talk to your mother.
07:44Sometimes, you can talk to other siblings.
07:45You can see that the siblings are malnourished.
07:48You can see that your grandmother has diabetes and high blood pressure.
07:50There's no medicine.
07:51You can see that your father has TB.
07:53I want to go back to that time when doctors and health workers really went there.
08:00The poor leaders know everything there.
08:02So let's go there and bring the services to them.