MUNICIPAL HEALTH OFFICE
MISSION:
The LGU ensure equity and quality health for San Jose through collaboration with other health sectors and partners.
VISSION:
Healthy productive San Joseans accessing and sustaining an essential health care system.
FUNCTIONAL STATEMENT:
To formulate programs, plans, strategies, policies and projects on health matters and to promote the health of constituents of the local government.
OBJECTIVES:
To reduce the mortality and morbidity cases of the municipality
PROGRAMS/ACTIVITIES:
- Administrative functions for the implementation of various health services and health development programs.
- Expanded program on immunization activities.
- Advocacy thru linkage with community and other organizations.
- Secure assistance from the LCE for the procurement of medical supplies and equipments.
- Establish immunization activities to barangays.
- Data collecting report
- Intensify regular monitoring and supervisory
- Conduct operation timbang
- Implement nutrition program
- Identify malnourish children
- Identify high risk married women for motivation
- Provide lectures about family planning
- Maintain safe level of contraceptive at all times
- Conduct responsible parenthood seminars for selected couples
- Conduct pre-marriage counseling about family planning
- Manage the procedure for case finding activities
- Facilitate requisition and distribution of drugs and other NTO supplies
- Maintain and update the TB register
- Provide continuous health education to all TB patients placed under treatment and encourage family planning participation in TB control
- Perform basic screening procedures for CVD such as BP screening and history taking
- Educate clients on healthy lifestyle and risk factors information needed for early detection of disease
- Conduct pap smear examination for cervical cancer detection and breast examination for women of reproductive age
- Maternal and child nursing
- Conduct pre-natal consultation and post natal home visits
- Identify IT immunization status
- Inspects food establishment
- Disinfects water supply
- Eliminates breeding places of insects
- Implement health education related to environmental sanitation program
- Store sputum smears to allow sampling by the provincial NTP coordinator for binded rechecking as part of the external quality assessment
- Perform other clinical laboratory such as urinalysis and blood chemistry
- Perform new born screening for 1-3 day old babies
- Participate in medical and dental missions to different barangays in the municipality
- Initiaites and participates in the developmental health programs to safeguard oral health of children and adults
- Conduct health education on the prevention of disease