Davao City – The municipal health officer of Malalag town in Davao del Sur is thankful to the national government for providing funding of ₱ 1 million to each of the town’s 15 barangays for the improvement of their quarantine facilities.
MHO chief Dr. Teresita Emphasis said the assistance is courtesy of the Kalipunan Serbisyong Bayan under DSWD’s Kalahi-CIDSS (Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services).
Emphasis bared that three barangay isolation units (BUIs) have been completed and are now being used. The barangay recipients are Baybay, Bagumbayan and Bolton.
The BIUs of the remaining 12 barangays are near to completion, she said during Monday’s (May 24) episode of the “Gobyernong Balitaan” radio program of Energy FM Digos and Philippine Information Agency Davao del Sur/Davao Occidental information center.
The quarantine facilities are designed to have six bed rooms, comfort rooms and ventilations with medical equipment and supplies.
Emphasis said the municipality is lucky to be one of the two municipalities in Davao Region to have been given the assistance. The other recipient is the municipality of Tarragona of Davao Oriental.
On the part of the municipal and barangay local government units of Malalag, food like rice and canned goods are provided in the quarantine facilities.
As of Monday (May 24), the MHO has recorded a total of 36 confirmed COVID-19 cases since the onset of the pandemic last year.
There is a new case involving a 33-year old female who is a locally stranded individual from Laguna. The patient is asymptomatic.
Emphasis disclosed that as of Monday, only three are active cases which are all asymptomatic, and she added that there was one death recorded last year.
She said that almost all of the confirmed cases are cases involving LSIs and returning overseas Filipinos, while there is only one local transmission. (Carina L. Cayon, PIA-XI)
