Borbon, Cebu -- Our country is experiencing different catastrophes every day. There are so many calamities going in and out affecting our provinces, cities, towns, and in our barangays. We were hit by typhoons, flash floods, earthquakes, and other natural calamities. Here comes the pandemic where COVID-19 and other variants caused every Filipino people to experience so much crisis and poverty.
Where there are so many companies, restaurants, and other establishments and even transportations close doors just to follow the health protocols and prevent the spread of the virus. Sad to say that these crises badly affect the vulnerable groups in our community. There are groups in our community that suffered so much at this time. They are the children, pregnant mothers, lactating mothers, and most of all the elderly.
On 13 to 17 September 2021, the National Nutrition Committee Region VII (NNC 7) conducted a Blended Nutrition Program Management Training and Planning Workshop with Nutrition in Emergencies to help capacitate local nutrition committees to respond to the need for scaled up nutrition services to respond to emergencies. The Municipal Nutrition Committee of Borbon Cebu together with twelve (12) other local governments namely: Carmen, Compostela, San Fernando and San Remigio of Cebu province; Dimiao, Sagbayan, Sierra Bullones of Bohol province and the cities of Canlaon, Cebu, Danao, and Naga joined the blended capacity building activity.
The training aims to prepare and capacitate the local government units to take charge of nutrition management in emergencies and disasters, take immediate action through coordination and setting of tangible plans and objectives to avert disasters, lessen casualties, and most of all prioritizations of vulnerable groups in the advent of nutrition emergencies.
The Borbon team headed by the ever-active Municipal Health Officer and Municipal Nutrition Action Officer Dr. Corazon Dotillos juggled the demands of their office works and produced their NiEM Plan and 2023-2025 Local Nutrition Action Plan with LNC performance evaluation matrix and activity costing workbook. MNAO Dr. Dotillos in her response message during the closing program expressed her thanks to the training team and assured NNC that the activity would not just end in the conference room but ensures the approval of these plans by the local Sanggunian and the Local Chief Executive. // Nurse II, Karen Esmero
