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Top health consultations are for acute respiratory infections, high blood pressure, open wounds and bruises, fever, and skin disease according to SPEED reports.
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• 149 of 237 of health facilities in Compostela Valley province, all barangay health stations in New Bataan and Compostela municipality have been completely damaged.
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• Medical supplies are needed. In Boston municipality, supplies of basic medicines and reproductive health supplies will be exhausted in the next few days, while stocks at Cateel District Hospital will last for one week at the most.
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• Hygiene kits are needed by 285 pregnant women in Boston municipality.
Response:
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• Additional medicines and medical services are being mobilized.
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• A rub hall has been set up in Cateel to serve as a makeshift ward of the Cateel District Hospital.
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• Hygiene/dignity and reproductive health kits have arrived in Trento and Nabunturan.
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• Assessments are being undertaken to prepare a master list of pregnant and lactating women in 8 affected municipalities in Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley provinces.
Gaps & Constraints:
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• Cateel District Hospital, the hospital nearest to Boston, Cateel and Baganga, is functioning only two doctors and three regular nurses.
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• Pregnant and lactating women have not been able to avail of prenatal and postnatal services since the emergency, as medical missions conducted to date have prioritized general health concerns. There is a gap in the provision of psychosocial support services.
