Nurses association joins effort to close the gap on access, equity to health care services
Posted on | Monday 16 May 2011 | No Comments
by Lito Dar
The Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) Cordillera Regional and Baguio City chapters join the International Council of Nurses (ICN) in its effort to enjoin all nurses worldwide to help close the gap on access and equity to health care services.
In a press conference here Friday, PNA Regional head Ruth Thelma Tingda said that in line with the ICN- led International Nurses Week celebration from May 6 to 12, the PNA adopted the theme, “Access and Equity to Health Services for a safer and healthier Philippines”, in recognition of the significant role nurses play on the delivery of health care services, not just for the people here in Cordillera but to all Filipinos.
Meantime, PNA – Baguio chapter President Norenia Dao-ayen stressed that aside from programmed activities, the PNA also continuously provides activities and programs that promotes the welfare of the Filipino nurses.
Dao-ayen said they conduct monthly seminar which not only aims to upgrade the knowledge and skills of nurses, but also to familiarize them with the various monthly health activities of the Department of Health and the City Health Office as well.
According to PNA adviser, Dr. Erlinda Castro – Palaganas, the PNA in its almost 88 years of existence, is still very much wanting of really trying to do its share in closing the gap in as far as at access and equity to health care services are concerned.
Palaganas affirmed that there still a lot of things needed to be done though she also assured that nurses would really be a force to reckon with. As a huge human resource body, nurses have the voice and force to put into form certain policy that would really make health care accessible.
In the same press conference, Caridad Binwag, a PNA member who heads the Human Resource and Management Division of DOH-CAR, gave a briefing on the Aquino Health Agenda of Universal Health Care, a focused health reform program which primarily aims to provide all Filipino families especially the poor financial risk protection through enrollment to Philhealth and access to affordable and quality health care facility and services. *(JDP/LD -PIA CAR)
The Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) Cordillera Regional and Baguio City chapters join the International Council of Nurses (ICN) in its effort to enjoin all nurses worldwide to help close the gap on access and equity to health care services.
In a press conference here Friday, PNA Regional head Ruth Thelma Tingda said that in line with the ICN- led International Nurses Week celebration from May 6 to 12, the PNA adopted the theme, “Access and Equity to Health Services for a safer and healthier Philippines”, in recognition of the significant role nurses play on the delivery of health care services, not just for the people here in Cordillera but to all Filipinos.
Meantime, PNA – Baguio chapter President Norenia Dao-ayen stressed that aside from programmed activities, the PNA also continuously provides activities and programs that promotes the welfare of the Filipino nurses.
Dao-ayen said they conduct monthly seminar which not only aims to upgrade the knowledge and skills of nurses, but also to familiarize them with the various monthly health activities of the Department of Health and the City Health Office as well.
According to PNA adviser, Dr. Erlinda Castro – Palaganas, the PNA in its almost 88 years of existence, is still very much wanting of really trying to do its share in closing the gap in as far as at access and equity to health care services are concerned.
Palaganas affirmed that there still a lot of things needed to be done though she also assured that nurses would really be a force to reckon with. As a huge human resource body, nurses have the voice and force to put into form certain policy that would really make health care accessible.
In the same press conference, Caridad Binwag, a PNA member who heads the Human Resource and Management Division of DOH-CAR, gave a briefing on the Aquino Health Agenda of Universal Health Care, a focused health reform program which primarily aims to provide all Filipino families especially the poor financial risk protection through enrollment to Philhealth and access to affordable and quality health care facility and services. *(JDP/LD -PIA CAR)
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