Health Care at the Philippines - VPHCS
Summary
TLDRThe video script introduces various medical professionals in the Philippines who are dedicated to community-based health programs. They focus on training community health workers, providing essential healthcare services, and promoting health education to prevent illnesses. The script highlights the importance of primary healthcare, the challenges faced by the urban poor, and the integration of homeopathy and indigenous healing practices alongside Western medicine. It emphasizes the need for more support and resources to sustain these vital health services for the underprivileged.
Takeaways
- ๐ The speakers are various healthcare professionals from different backgrounds, including doctors, dentists, and community health workers, emphasizing diverse expertise in primary healthcare.
- ๐ฅ There is a focus on community-based health programs that are responsive to the needs of local communities, with an emphasis on training community health workers and providing health education.
- ๐ The importance of primary healthcare is highlighted, with a goal to make healthcare accessible, affordable, and scientifically sound for deprived and oppressed populations.
- ๐ The script discusses the shift in approach from merely training to actively rendering healthcare services during outbreaks or when requested by community organizations.
- ๐ฟ There is an interest in integrating alternative medicine practices, such as homeopathy, alongside Western medicine to provide more affordable healthcare options.
- ๐๏ธ The healthcare services aim to work closely with communities, including squatters and the urban poor, to understand their needs and provide appropriate care.
- ๐ซ Involvement of students in the healthcare program through integration programs, allowing them to apply their skills and knowledge in real-world situations to assist poor communities.
- ๐ The organization relies on donations and resource generation, such as soap making, to support their operations and continue providing services.
- ๐ฑ A historical perspective is provided, discussing the origins of community-based health programs in the Philippines and their evolution over time.
- ๐ข The construction of a training center is underway to improve facilities and sustainability, with a call for donations to enhance its functionality.
- ๐ค There is a call to action for healthcare professionals and others to contribute to the cause, emphasizing the need for education and community involvement in healthcare.
Q & A
Who is Lilia Hernandez and what is her educational background?
-Lilia Hernandez is a medical professional who graduated in medicine from the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines.
What is the role of Betty de Castro in the healthcare sector?
-Betty de Castro is a dentist by profession and has been involved in primary health care for 32 years.
What is the significance of community-based health programs as described in the script?
-Community-based health programs are significant as they focus on training community health workers, providing healthcare services during outbreaks, and educating people on disease prevention.
How does Visayas Primary Health Care Services (VPHCS) engage with communities?
-VPHCS engages with communities by responding to requests from community organizations, training community health workers, and providing healthcare services during outbreaks.
What is the primary strategy of VPHCS to promote healthcare access?
-The primary strategy of VPHCS is to promote primary healthcare through training, providing medical services, and raising awareness in the medical health sector.
What is the role of the health committee in community-based health programs?
-The health committee in community-based health programs is responsible for recognizing the community's health needs and coordinating with organizations like VPHCS to train community health workers.
How does VPHCS approach the treatment of diseases like dengue?
-VPHCS approaches the treatment of diseases like dengue by educating the community on prevention methods and providing healthcare services during outbreaks, including medical missions with volunteer doctors.
What is the significance of the student integration program mentioned in the script?
-The student integration program is significant as it allows students to immerse themselves in community healthcare settings, applying their skills and knowledge to help underserved populations.
How does the script describe the evolution of community-based health programs in the Philippines?
-The script describes the evolution of community-based health programs in the Philippines starting in 1973, founded by three nuns, with a focus on making healthcare accessible, affordable, and relevant through various initiatives including community clinics, training, and outreach.
What is the role of homeopathy in the healthcare services provided by VPHCS?
-Homeopathy plays a role in the healthcare services provided by VPHCS as an alternative medicine approach, which is considered affordable and accessible, though it may require education to gain wider acceptance.
What challenges do healthcare workers face in serving poor communities according to the script?
-Healthcare workers face challenges such as limited resources, the need for education on preventive healthcare, and the struggle to provide services that are both accessible and affordable to poor communities.
Outlines
๐ Introductions and Community Health Work
The video script begins with a series of introductions from various medical professionals, each with unique backgrounds and experiences in healthcare. They discuss their roles and contributions to primary health care, emphasizing the shift from traditional healthcare services to community-based programs. The Visayas Primary Health Care Services (VPHCS) is highlighted as an organization that now operates on community requests, training community health workers, and providing medical missions during outbreaks. The script also touches on the importance of making healthcare accessible and affordable for the underprivileged.
๐ฑ Primary Health Care Education and Outreach
This paragraph delves into the concept of primary health care, focusing on education and prevention rather than treatment. The speaker, a doctor, discusses the importance of keeping people healthy to prevent illness. The role of the student integration program is introduced, which helps students understand community needs and apply their skills to assist the poor. The history of community-based health programs in the Philippines is traced back to 1973, founded by three nuns with the goal of making healthcare accessible and affordable. The paragraph also mentions the various strategies used by these programs, including community clinics, training, and outreach to medical and nursing schools.
๐ฟ Integrating Indigenous and Homeopathic Practices
The speaker shares her personal journey and belief in the integration of indigenous healing practices, Western medicine, and homeopathy within the primary health care services. She expresses her respect for homeopathy, despite not fully understanding it, and highlights its affordability and accessibility. The paragraph also recounts a personal story of using homeopathy to help her sick father recover, which led to her father advocating for homeopathy in their community. The challenges of convincing people about homeopathy and the importance of education in healthcare are also discussed.
๐จโโ๏ธ The Role of Homeopathy in Healthcare
The script continues with a narrative about the influence of a homeopathic doctor on the speaker's approach to healthcare. It discusses the challenges of treating children and the future they face in a country with a significant portion of the population living in poverty. The speaker's aspiration to become a homeopathic doctor is mentioned, along with the support received from a mentor. The paragraph also touches on the importance of preventive healthcare and the need for education on nutrition and health in the community.
๐๏ธ Community Challenges and Healthcare Accessibility
This paragraph discusses the challenges faced by communities in the Philippines, including malnutrition, water scarcity, and living conditions in slums. It highlights the importance of education on nutrition and the need for community involvement in healthcare. The script also addresses the issue of resettlement and the impact on communities, as well as the government's role in addressing the needs of the poor. The speaker emphasizes the fulfillment derived from helping others and the importance of community support in healthcare.
๐ค Calling for Support and Education in Healthcare
The final paragraph is a call to action for healthcare professionals and individuals to support and serve in grassroots healthcare. It emphasizes the need for education on health and the importance of community involvement. The speaker shares her personal motivation for working in the community and the joy of seeing people manage their health. The paragraph concludes with a plea for support to sustain healthcare programs and services, especially for the urban poor, and the need for financial assistance to continue providing these essential services.
Mindmap
Keywords
๐กPrimary Health Care
๐กCommunity Health Workers
๐กOutreach
๐กHealth Education
๐กMedical Missions
๐กHomeopathy
๐กIndigenous Healing Practices
๐กResource Generation
๐กSustainability
๐กUrban Poor
๐กVolunteer Doctors
Highlights
Lilia Hernandez graduated in medicine from the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines.
Betty de Castro is a dentist with 32 years of experience in primary health care.
Dr. Aiding Posadas is a medical doctor from St. Mary Grace Taliban.
Community health workers are trained by Visayas Primary Health Care to serve their communities.
Dr. Rosalie Bahadur practices homeopathy and has been in health care for 30 years.
Blue Sky Yuan has been working in health care for 30 years.
Angela Miranda discusses the importance of community involvement in health care programs.
Community-based health programs have evolved to work with existing community organizations.
Health committees are formed within community groups to identify health care needs.
Visayas Primary Health Care Services trains community health workers and provides health care during outbreaks.
Volunteer doctors offer free services in areas with health outbreaks, supported by donated or purchased medications.
The goal of Visayas PHCs is to make health care accessible, affordable, and scientific for the deprived and oppressed.
Primary health care focuses on education to prevent illness and promote self-care.
Dr. Rosalie Bahadur emphasizes the importance of keeping people healthy rather than just treating the sick.
Homeopathy is introduced as an alternative, affordable, and accessible form of medicine.
The challenge of convincing communities about the effectiveness of homeopathy is discussed.
Personal stories of using homeopathy to improve health are shared, including a doctor's father's recovery.
The importance of a personal approach to health care and the integration of indigenous and Western healing practices.
The need for education on nutrition and preventative health measures in the Philippines.
The impact of community health programs on children and the importance of early detection and prevention.
The struggles of the urban poor and the need for support services, including health care.
The role of Surgeon General in financing health services for the needy.
A call to action for doctors, nurses, health students, and professionals to serve in community health.
The fulfillment derived from helping others and the joy of seeing improved health in the community.
Transcripts
I am Lilia Hernandez I graduated
medicine at the University of Santo
Tomas here in the Philippines
I'm Betty de Castro dentist by
profession I am with desires primary
health care for 32 years I am doctor
aiding the Posadas I'm a medical doctor
from st. Mary Grace Taliban I'm
community health worker trained by
Visayas primary health care I am dr.
Rosalie Bahadur I am a practicing
homeopathy hi I am blue sky yuan I've
been working for this I buy my health
care for since 30 years
my name is Angela Miranda from parcel
and first-rate clothes passive I'm Laura
dance studio I'm all fields on medical
assistance
I am grass lobbied on the administrative
officer here in Visayas primary house
I am Irish grace from us I am a nursing
science primary healthcare services
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community-based health programs now is
very much different from what it used to
be now a group like VP ACS will not
enter a community unless a community
organization asked for them so it's
usually you have a farmers group you
have a fisherman's group have a youth
group many times it's a mother's
organization so there are already
organizations in the communities so now
every group will have what you call a
health committee and they if they
realize they need a community health
worker to be trained they were called V
PhDs to train them now the function of
community based health programs like the
Visayas primary health care services is
not only to train now but to render
health care and they render services
when like if there is an outbreak of
dengue in an area so they go into the
area if they are requested by the
people's organization they train
community health workers they give
lectures on how to treat them I should
not say lectures actually they educate
not so much the lecture but to educate
the people on the prevention of dengue
and I mean something like that so they
are requested for a called medical
mission if there is an outbreak let's
say of respiratory diseases they go in
there and they bring in doctors
volunteer doctors these are local
physicians who will come and volunteer
and render free service to that area
they of course bring medications either
they buy these medications or they get
donated we Envy PHCs always dream to
have health care to be accessible
affordable and scientific to those
people who are deprived
and oppressed meaning deprived of food
shelter because of poverty and the
access of medical services so our main
strategy is to promote primary health
care so our strategy is one to train the
people secondly we provide medical
services if the community is needing it
and the third one is we are giving an
awareness-raising for this medical
health sector so to help students so
that will be graduated they can be
sympathetic or they can provide free
services to this deprived communities we
are covering and the port one is you
have a resource generation like for
liking soap which is part of our
resource generation
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so that's what we call primary health
care so primary health care people know
what to do how to take care of
themselves how to keep themselves
healthy it's actually more of Education
primary health care that I'm really
concerned with that's why I'm a
different doctor I don't treat people
when they're sick but I keep people
healthy I don't want them to become sick
I am happy to serve people the poor
people like me my worry is how to teach
the herbal medicine and how to fool
people medicine to the community
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we also have the
student integration program witches I am
the wine help I am assisting the
students to go to the community
letting them see the real the real
situation I mean it comes to help here
in the Philippines in how their services
could their skills their knowledge can
help poor people the communities I met
with one of the founders of
community-based health programs in the
Philippines that was sister Mary crane
Oh community-based health program the
Philippines started in 1973 this was
founded by three nuns sister Mary green
Oh sister Eva ball and sister Saviour
and they got funding from Miss area in
Germany to start in three pilot areas
the main concept was to go to the people
learn from them adapt their practices
and make health care accessible
affordable relevant
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they have several prongs they have this
community clinic so-called medical
missions they have training of community
health workers they have outreach to
medical schools and nursing schools so
that they are able to those who are
interested be immersed in this kind of
health care approach they have outreach
to kadhi mia so they the local
physicians and specialists and even
politicians they join forces with them
they work with squatters those who have
no land I should not say for they work
with because always these people are
organized and they just kind of
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so for example in Cebu we are in a meter
puzzle and st. Mary's in Taliban and
then we are also in Tagbilaran
in ball so our communities are Trinidad
before our Resource Center in Berkeley
on where our training center is being
built built in supposedly for
sustainability of the organization
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we have a lot more to do with the center
to cater for the trainings of the
community health workers and for the
other groups to use it because we have a
modest facilities but we wanted it to be
improved so it can be more comfortable
for the users so we are accepting
donations grabs for the center to be
more functional
so at Olli we are reaching or writing
friends and networks come and see the
training center so they could see it
themselves and hopefully they would
donate some grass
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I still believe that there is still more
room to be worked on as far as having a
more personal approach to health care
the besides primary health care services
now uses both indigenous healing
practices Western healing practices and
homeopathy so much of this I actually
learned from a homeopathic doctor that
VP ACS has befriended he's a homeopathy
and if you are a Western trained
physician homeopathy is another
revolution of the mind to accept but one
thing I have gotten there are many
things in life that you cannot
understand you concentrate the dose in a
small pill it seems impossible if you
have a Western set mind but if you think
about metaphysics and quantum theology
and all that so homeopathy my approach
to it right now is I believe it I
respect it
although I don't understand it I really
do
and so and I think if we can have more
people believing in it convincing people
that there is an alternative medicine I
think health care will be much more
affordable
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homeopathy is very very cheap very
accessible but I did not sell it because
Norbert
always tells me we do not sell we only
give it because that is what the poor
needs
I have to take care of my sick father
because I've felt so sad me being a
doctor and I cannot take care of my own
father so I went home took care of my
father but he was given this
conventional medicine my father doesn't
believe in homeopathy so with all the
illnesses that he has I gave him the
conventional medicines which he wanted
and only alleviated the condition so one
day he said okay I surrender I will try
homeopathy indeed I gave him homeopathy
and it took some time not right away
because it's not like the conventional
medicine which the effect you would see
the day after but this one took about
say a week before he started to feel
that he is getting a bit better and then
kept taking it better and better until
my father went back to his old self his
healthy self with homeopathy that's why
he is he was advertising homeopathy that
time but nobody understands homeopathy
they do not believe that but if we say
it's some kind of homeopathy is some
kind of magic medicine in the
Philippines they can relate it's not
easy to convince those people in the
community that it really works that's
why we are very thankful for norburg to
be here and to teach us he has gone so
far and I have to learn a lot from him
and I know that even after several years
I still will not be able to absorb what
he has in his brain
she's clear
only then is the approach to to
these people you know belong to the 85%
of poor so formally I I had a difficult
time to heal children the question for
me what what kind of future do I heal
this children and youngsters considering
that eighty percent of this population
is under 25 years of age it's amazing
but with the time I restrict myself to
my professional ability I just care
about them
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I want to be a doctor and I am hoping
that I will be or I have a courage to be
a homeopathic doctor someday and if I
will be doctor nervy Anders said to me
that I will be the first doctor of
homeopathy and the Philippines I will
graduate with a working student and I am
also given scholarship by dr. nur be
Anders so from now I am going for also
medical mission psycho psycho social
events and circumcisions
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in the Philippines like many poor
nations you only see a doctor if you are
dying or dead many Filipinos still die
without having seen a physician and so
what I have brought to them was my
practice I'm a pediatrician in the
United States where you try to see them
before they're sick we have had several
cases when we did these physicals and we
found out that the children have heart
murmurs that they did not know and so we
have picked up some and kidney
infections in this world check physicals
and so that's where I think we should be
going in more when they go to training
at two weeks at the time who browsed the
field who reaps there prior there
produce the community didn't surf this
time offer this farmers plant our farm
was to be planted all the farmers would
go there to plant this field while we
were in training by primary health care
we see that we have to educate the
communities on the preventative aspects
of health so we have if there is problem
on attrition we have to teach them
everyone should be treated ever if you
are poor and in the middle strata of the
society what is the nutritious food
Filipinos think that you should buy
multivitamins rather than buy food buy
ma this nutritious drink which you only
pee out anyway because they're all in
vitamins that you can get in food we
don't even want to cook anymore thirty
percent of Filipinos are stunted that
means chronic malnutrition that has
prevented them from growing the drinking
there's a actively there is supply we
called it metropolitan super water
district when in
also everybody who gets water will be
for the main caretaker of the faucet
like for example in puzzle we have a
common al so there is one pipe and
members of that particular city or the
maintenance and payment of that project
but before they have to carry on outside
just to get water like in parcel you can
see in one shanties there are three
three families because that's the sister
or that's the brother of the mother and
the children so they are compressed in
no incentives they share with one or two
restaurants who is being used by other
community residents there are tricycle
drivers also just to augment a as income
for the food of the family family of six
family of ten whatever so that's hard
life is in community slums they are
saying that they can pay some rent in
the maker and then installment basis
because the government has a plan for
development on that particular site the
government is trying to resettle him but
no resettlement area is being offered
yet and the people usually doesn't like
the resettlement because they will be
away from the source of income which is
the carbon market so the the they tend
to say that the Philippines is already
very rich and mining that behind those
high building the poor people the
squatters have been demolished just to
papery for a certain activity of the
government because they want to protect
a very highly economic boom country
undermining what are the needs of most
of the majority the 70% of the poor
people who are behind those high
buildings
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my fulfillment with my work is just
being happy because when we can help
other people and seeing their happy
faces
it seems that we will be you are also
lying down happily on the night after
the work in heaven simple thank you can
always energize even if were very tired
when we go to the communities and I
inspired to work for the Visayas by my
health care to help the poor people and
the health is my house one of one reason
why I'm seeing her for 30 years is to
help poor people know in the urban poor
communities the person's official faults
the basics actors because we see that
these persons are very poor depressed
and need support services health
services from us after I graduated they
were in the hospital but I choose to
work in the community because I saw the
need I saw that I will be more effective
and I can help more in the communities
it's the joy that seeing them seeing
them do their the manage themselves in
sickness in their illness I think that
they still need a lot of support for
this because they do not earn much as a
physician as a as a nurse they don't
earn much but they do need to live they
have families they do they have
they have some of them still go to
school to increase their knowledge like
master's degree this could help us for
our programs and services to sustain our
programs and services although as you
see it's still under construction so we
still need some more than the nation's
you can make so this can be the
amenities can compete to the other I'm
calling on doctors nurses health
students all professionals and all well
many people to come here to the BIOS to
come here and serve and give your time
to the various made the problem really
is education people need to be educated
need to be taught or it needs to be know
how to keep themselves healthy so we're
calling on all educated or just any
simple ordinary people who love to work
with poor people to come here to the
grassroots and serve people here one of
our program services is Surgeon General
finances because if there is no
penalties we cannot continue our health
services no towards the needy people
that's a big challenge for us fear we
really need help because besides firming
health care is an organization that will
help the people that will serve the
people and can heal the people
you
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