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., Secretary Website The Philippine Department of Health (abbreviated as DOH;: Kagawaran ng Kalusugan) is the of the responsible for ensuring access to basic services by all Filipinos through the provision of quality and the regulation of all health services and products. It is the government's over-all technical authority on health. It has its headquarters at the San Lazaro Compound, along in. The department is led by the, nominated by the and confirmed by the. The Secretary is a member of the. The current Secretary of Health is. Contents.
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History On June 23, 1898, the Americans established a military Board of Health with. As president. The purpose of this Board of Health was to care for injured American troops but as the hostilities between Filipinos and Americans waned in 1901, a civilian Board of Health was now deemed appropriate with Dr. As the first health commissioner.
In the early 1900s, 200,222 lives including 66,000 children were lost; three percent of the population was decimated in the worst epidemic in Philippine health history. In view of this, the Americans organized and erected several institutions, including the Bureau of Governmental Laboratories, which was built in 1901 for medical research and vaccine production. The Americans, led by built the in 1905, with serving as a blueprint, at the time, one of the best medical schools in the world. By 1909, nursing instruction was also begun at the. In terms of public health, the Americans improved on the sewer system and provided a safer water supply.
In 1915, the Bureau of Health was reorganized and renamed into the Philippine Health Service. During the succeeding years leadership and a number of health institutions were already being given to Filipinos, in accordance with the Organic Act of 1916. On January 1, 1919, Dr. Vicente De Jesus became the first Filipino to head the Health portfolio. In 1933, after a reorganization, the Philippine Health Service reverted to being known as the Bureau of Health.
It was during this time that it pursued its official journal, The Health Messenger and established Community Health and Social Centers, precursors to today's. By 1936, as Governor-General Frank Murphy was assuming the post of United States, he would remark that the Philippines led all oriental countries in terms of health status. When the was inaugurated, Dr. Was named chief of the Bureau of Health. Fabella reviewed the Bureau of Health’s organization and made an inventory of its existing facilities, which consisted of 11 community and social health centers, 38 hospitals, 215 puericulture centers, 374 sanitary divisions, 1,535 dispensaries and 72 laboratories. In the 1940s, the Bureau of Health was reorganized into the Department of Health and Public Welfare, still under Fabella. During this time, the major priorities of the agency were, gastrointestinal disease, and the high infant.
When the Japanese occupied the Philippines, they dissolved the National Government and replaced it with the Central Administrative Organization of the. Health was relegated to the Department of Education, Health and Public Welfare under Commissioner. In 1944, signed Executive Order (E.O.) No.
94 into law, calling for the creation of the Department of Health. Villarama as appointed Secretary. A new Bureau of Hospitals and a Bureau of Quarantine was created under DOH. 94, the Institute of Nutrition was created in 1948 to coordinate various nutrition activities of the different agencies.
On February 20, 1958, Executive Order 288 provided for the reorganization of the Department of Health. This entailed a partial decentralization of powers and created eight Regional Health Offices. Under this setup, the Secretary of Health passed on some of responsibilities to the regional offices and directors.
One of the priorities of the administration was health maintenance. From 1975 to the mid-eighties, four specialty hospitals were built in succession. The first three institutions were spearheaded. The was established on February 14, 1975 with Dr.
Avelino Aventura as director. Second, the Philippine Children’s Medical Center was built in 1979.
Then in 1983, the National Kidney and Transplant Institute was set up. This was soon followed by the, which was constructed under the guidance of Health Minister Dr.
With a shift to a parliamentary form of government, the Department of Health was transformed into the Ministry of Health on June 2, 1978 with Dr. As the first health minister. On April 13, 1987, the Department of Health was created from the previous Ministry of Health with Dr. As secretary of health.
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List of Secretaries of Health. Main article: Organizational Structure At present, the Department is headed by the, with five undersecretaries and seven assistant secretaries.
Stands for Directly-Observed Treatment Short-course. It is a comprehensive strategy endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Union Against T uberculosis and Lung Diseases (IUATLD) to detect and cure TB patients.There are five elements of DOTS that need to be fulfilled. These are: 1. Political commitment 2. Quality sputum microscopy for diagnosis 3. Regular supply of anti-TB drugs 4. Standardized recording and reporting of TB data 5.
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Supervised treatment by a treatment partner According to the WHO Report on the TB Epidemic, 1997: A DOTS cure TB patients and it can produce cure rates as high as 95% even in the poorest countries. A DOTS prevent new infections among children and adults. A DOTS can stop resistance to anti-TB drugs. A DOTS is cost-effective.