The Department of Health and the Office of Civil Defense, Region 10 sponsored a three-day training on Basic Incident Command System (ICS) held on April 4-6, 2016 at Pearlmont Hotel, Cagayan de Oro City.  A total of 31 participants attended the training composed of 29 DOH RO X staff and two NNC X personnel.  Through exercises and classroom discussions, the participants were able to demonstrate knowledge of basic ICS functions including a written Incident Action Plan and simulate an Incident Operational Briefing.

One of the highlights of the training was a discussion of how the ICS as a life-saving response relates with the International Standards on Humanitarian Response through the cluster approach. Mr. Patrick Alain S. Callanta, OCD X Operations Chief facilitated the three-day training.

Mr. Jasper Kent Ola, Nurse V, DOH X RESDRU, reiterated that the participants’ profile together with the photocopy of the training certificates will be submitted to DOH Central Office to be included in the directory of trained personnel.  This automatically lists them as part of the pool of ICS responders.

Also during the training, OCD, DOH and NNC X agreed that NNC X will be part of the RDRRMC and will attend its regular monthly meeting. OCD will also assist NNC X, as the regional nutrition cluster coordinator, on mainstreaming nutrition in emergencies in the updating of the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan. pcgd