.CHO acting head Marjorie Culas, during the I-Speak Media Forum on Thursday ( April 13) said that the clinic services include daily consultation from Monday-Friday, and immunization for children from Monday-Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.
"It will be a new facility for Davao City and we will soon be making available our psychosocial counselling and weighing for our malnutrition program," Culas said.
She added that the clinic which will open on April 18 is a centralized clinic and it is built as an additional option for parents to avail of health services for children under five years old. It can be noted that programs for under 5, especially immunization are already rolled out in every health center.
The putting up of this facility also helps in the immunization of children for various infections and diseases.
Culas said that children, especially in the hot summer season, are at risk of measles-rubella, which if not prevented could result in death as the worst-case scenario. Linked diseases with measles include diarrhea and pneumonia, and other infections. It may also aggravate tuberculosis, causes a weak immune system, and low vitamin A levels that can result in night blindness.
The CHO, meanwhile, will conduct next month a city-wide Measles Rubella and Oral Poliovirus Vaccine Supplemental Immunization activities to cover children who were not vaccinated during the height of the pandemic and also to provide supplemental vaccination to those who were already vaccinated.
The immunization activity is for children 0-59 months old for polio and 9-59 months for measles and rubella. A
CHO is targeting a total of 160,000 children to receive the measles-rubella and polio vaccines.
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