Trinidad, Bohol LGU to complete gov’t-funded new health unit this year
MANILA – The municipality of Trinidad in
Bohol Province recognizes the help of the national government through the
Department of Health in the construction of its new rural health unit that will
be vital in the ongoing fight against the pandemic.
In an interview with
Presidential Communications Secretary Martin M. Andanar on September 27, via
Network Briefing News, Trinidad town Mayor Judith Del Rosario Cajes shared the
COVID-19 response of the local government.
“Ang bagong rural
health unit natin na sinimulan noong 2019 patuloy po ang konstruksyon nito. Ito
ay tulong mula sa national government sa pamamahala ni President Rodrigo Roa
Duterte. [The construction of our new rural health unit started in 2019 and is
still under construction at present. This was possible through the assistance
from the national government under the administration of President Rodrigo Roa
Duterte.],” she said.
The national
government funded the construction of the rural health unit amounting to Php 2
million and ordered the deployment of additional DOH medical staff for the
town.
"Susubukan
po natin na tapusin ang construction by the end of the year. [We will try our
best to finish the construction by the end of the year.],” Mayor Cajes added.
According to
Mayor Cajes, the health department assigned a medical doctor who will head the
health unit and deployed eight nurses to the town. The local government hired
an on-call doctor and three permanent nurses that will supervise the COVID-19
situation in the town.
Pero nagsusumikap
tayo na sa [kabila] ng kakulangan ng staff. Patuloy ang pagseserbisyo natin sa
mga taga-Trinidad. [But we are working hard already [despite] the lack of
staff. We continue to serve the people of Trinidad.],” she shared.
Vaccination
Rollout
The town chief
lauded the Department of Health for the vaccines and deployment of additional
medical force to vaccinate the people of Trinidad.
“Ang
munisipalidad ng Trinidad ay nagsusumikap upang mas mabigyan pa ang ating mga
kababayan ng mga bakuna. [The municipality of Trinidad is working hard to
provide more vaccines to our people.],” she said.
As of September
23, the Municipal Vaccination Team inoculated 8,696 individuals which is 30% of
the total population of Trinidad.
She added that
volunteer doctors and all the frontliners have been a great help since the
start of the vaccination rollout to protect them from the virus, citing the
efficient vaccination efforts of the LGU that vaccines were given within three
to five days.
“Sa katunayan,
bukod sa araw-araw na [vaccination] sa Cultural Center ng Trinidad, mayroon din
tayo na naka-schedule na clustered vaccination para sa mga malalayong barangay
ng munisipalidad. [In fact, apart from the daily [vaccination] at the Cultural
Center of Trinidad, we also have a scheduled clustered vaccination for the
remote barangays of the municipality.],” she added.
