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The Civil Service Commission was aiming to ensure government integrity and good governance through a clean and healthy workforce and workplace when it partnered with the Department of Health in conducting a seminar that reiterated CSC’s healthy lifestyle and workplace-related guidelines and memorandum circulars.
Dubbed as “One bureaucracy for health and integrity: A seminar for a healthy workplace,” the activity was held at Prince Plaza Hotel on Oct. 19 and attended by around 300 participants from regional line agencies and local government units in the region.
Topics included Republic Act 10767 or the Comprehensive Tuberculosis Elimination Plan Act discussed by Clint Ildefonso of the DOH; smoke-free policies of the government and President Rodrigo Duterte’s Executive Order 26 that aims to ensure smoke-free environment on public and enclosed places and policy guidelines on the consumption of alcoholic beverages among government officials and employees by CSC lawyer Emily Balungay; and Patrick Pineda of DOH who talked about the Red Orchid Award for smoking-free government agencies and institutions.
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Nutrition stakeholders in the Cordillera were told to exert more effort to avert cases of stunting among children less than five years old.
Department of Health North Luzon Cluster OIC Asec. Myrna Cabotaje said aside from addressing cases of wasting, underweight, and obesity, nutrition workers and local government units should also pay attention to stunting among kids under five years old.
Cabotaje, who recently addressed awardees of the best implementers of nutrition programs in the Cordillera, said the statistics on stunting shows a grim picture not only in the region but also nationwide.
“We need to pay special attention to stunting because it is a sign of chronic malnutrition,” Cabotaje said.
Citing the 2015 survey of the Food and Nutrition Research Institute, Cabotaje said that 3.8 million kids below five years old nationwide are stunted.
In the Cordillera, one in every three children below five years old is stunted, one in 10 is underweight, four in 100 are wasted or thin, and three in every 100 kids are overweight based on the same study.
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Radyo Kataguwan Nutriskwela Community Radio at Bauko, Mtn. Province was launched September 17. Radyo Kataguwan stands to be the 5th community radio in the Cordillera established through the assistance of the National Nutrition Council (NNC) and part of 45 other stations nationwide.
The establishment of Radyo Kataguwan is a contribution of Mayor Abraham Akilit and the local government of Bauko in addressing malnutrition in the country. It is also in sync with the campaign to improve e-Baukos lives that is captured in the tagline “Abante Bauko Abante”.
Mediazone and its prominent radio personalities -Mr. Mario Garcia, Francisco Flores, Mackay Cuadra, Andy Vital and Louie Tabing conducted a 3 day workshop-training at the municipal conference hall. Over 35 Bauko local government employees and representatives of peoples’ organizations including high school students graduated from the training held September 18 to 20th. NNC-CAR Program Coordinator Rita Papey and Nutriskwela point person Nancy Paclos shared Nutriskwela success stories and challenged the graduates in achieving Radyo Kataguans aspirations.
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A nutrition advocate in Baguio City and Tublay, Benguet led this year’s awardees in the search that recognizes local government units and individuals, who consider nutrition a serious business.
Barangay Nutrition Scholar (BNS) Imelda Dagupon of Imelda Village was named Cordillera’s 2016 outstanding BNS for helping mothers develop budget-friendly and healthy viands and snacks, which helped improve the nutrition status of children. She also helped her barangay establish the breastfeeding support group that helped mothers better understand the importance of breastfeeding their babies.
Dagupon was also the regional BNS in 2015.
Nutrition scholars Glenda Kiasao of Little Tadian, Alfonso Lista, Ifugao; Olivia Capsula of Paoay, Atok, Benguet; and Elsie Dawangon of Maling, Balbalan, Kalinga were also the regional awardees of the outstanding BNS.
For consistently integrating various services in its nutrition program, Tublay was declared as the best nutrition program implementer among all the municipalities in the Cordillera in 2016.
Tublay’s initiatives in combating malnutrition earned for the town the Regional Most Outstanding Implementer on Nutrition or the Regional Green Banner Award.
The Tublay “Shines” nutrition framework incorporates programs on safe environment and disaster preparedness; health and social services; income generation and livelihood; nutritious food intake and breastfeeding; education focused on nutrition advocacy, promotion of healthy lifestyle, and gender equality; and stable food supply and hunger mitigation.
Hungduan, Ifugao and Balbalan, Kalinga are the provincial green banner awardees on nutrition program implementation.
Three LGUs were also recognized for maintaining their awards in nutrition. These are Alfonso, Lista Ifugao for its second year Consistent Regional Outstanding Winner in Nutrition (Crown) Maintenance Award and Baguio City and Benguet Province for their first year Crown maintenance awards.
The Crown award is given to an LGU that is awarded the Regional Green Banner for three consecutive years.
The National Nutrition Council of the Department of Health recognized the individuals and LGUs during the regional nutrition awarding program on Oct. 19.
The award is an institutional activity of the NNC that acknowledges the exemplary performance of individual workers and the LGUs in nutrition program management and service delivery.
DOH-CAR Director Lakshmi Legazpi said the awards is also an acknowledgement that the efforts of the BNS and the LGUs in improving the nutrition status of their constituents are not put to waste and do not go unnoticed.by Jane B. Cadalig
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BAUKO, Mt. Province- With the vision to be the number one source of reliable information on health, nutrition and other development programs in Bauko, the newly established Nutriskwela Radyo Kataguwan now airs in Bauko reaching the nearby municipalities of Tadian, Sabangan and Sagada, Mt. Province. The term Kataguwan named to their Nutriskwela radio station is a kankana-ey word which means livelihood.
Mayor Abraham Akilit of Bauko thanked the National Nutrition Council for granting his request two years ago for a Community Radio to be established in the municipality in his welcome remarks during the opening program of the hands-on training for Nutriskwela Community Radio on September 18, 2017 in Bauko.
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A major effort of the National Nutrition Council and its partner agencies to address growing malnutrition is through Nutriskwela. NC-CAR point person for Nutriskwela Nancy Paclos says that government since 2008 funds equipment and trainings for Nutriskwela community radios. Paclos says that through community radio, education on health concerns reach far flung villages.
Aside from Nutriskwela community radios, the NNC partners with other private and government radio stations that air information materials on nutrition. Most popular is NNCs “10 Kumainments”.
Rita Papey NNC-CAR Regional Program Coordinator says CAR is not the worst in terms of malnutrition. The region fares well in terms of weight for under 5 children and also in terms of wasting in elderly citizens. But CAR has to address “stunting” in its children and “overweight” problems among its adult population.
Food security too is vital for proper nutrition. Again CAR is better off compared to other regions as its food production volume is adequate to provide the needs of its people. According to Papey, cultural values of Cordillerans in relation to food are contributory to higher food security in CAR. “We prioritize food over lipstick o postura….we plant food primarily rather than flowers tay ay makan nan bayaya?” says Papey.
