Team Civitas Medicos are now on our third year in medicine. It is the time that we go back to our beloved community, Barangay Tulungatung. It has been five months since our first immersion. This immersion is intended for our community health plan updates. It was wonderful to see residents in the community are active in the activities we planned together.
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March of every year, we celebrate Rabies Awareness Month. The kick-off the Rabies Awareness Month celebration in our city was held at Tulungatung Elementary School last March 3, 2023. It was the City Wide Launching Program of Rabies Awareness Month with the theme "Huwag hayaan gumala ang mga alaga" in partnership with Department of Health, City Health Office, Department of Agriculture, City Veterinary Office, and other offices and officials. The program begun with the motorcade and the program proper had inspirational and informative messages coming from above-mentioned offices. A ceremonial vaccination of dogs was also conducted.
Ceremonial Anti-Rabies Vaccination
The team facilitated the film viewing on rabies awareness and rabies control information for Tulungatung elementary students. The students were attentive during the film viewing. They were participative in the question and answer portion we had after the film viewing.
It was very alarming when Barangay Tulungatung had a one mortality due to rabies last year (2022). Numerous stray dogs in the community is one of the problems identified. It is our aim for a rabies-free community.
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The team organized a lecture on ecological solid waste management for the residents. We invited DENR to give the lecture about RA 9003 "Ecological Solid Waste Management Act" last March 9, 2023 at Tulungatung covered court. The speaker was Ms. Mary Claire Gedouqio. She also thought the crowd proper composting and proper segregation of waste.
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The team is delighted to distribute the procured BP apparatus and re-trained the hypertension control committee on proper BP taking last March 10, 2023 at Tulungatung Multipurpose Hall. We conducted lecture and thought proper BP taking. They did great as participants was able to give 100% on proper BP taking returned demo.
As part of the Hypertension Awareness Program, we continue to promote healthy lifestyle to the residents of the Barangay by conducting Zumba every Saturday morning. We jumped and sweat on our 45-minute Zumba sessions.
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The three weeks immersion indeed went so fast. We still learned a lot during this immersion, from our duties in the health center. and on how we approach and built rapport in the community. We will miss the people we've engaged in the community. We will be back after clerkship.
See you soon, Barangay Tulungatung!
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