Launching of ROJDonors-MuRelief-HelpThru Against COVID19 for Rural Health Units

March 29, 2020 marks the date that I am officially launching the ROJDonors -MuReilief-HelpThru Against COVID19 for Rural Health Units.

March 29, 2020 is the day after my 2 weeks of isolation after exposure to an anesthesiologist who died of COVID19. March 28, 2020 is the recommendation of the Infection Prevention and Control Office as my last day of isolation observation. (However, my wife-warden insists on March 31, 2020 as the last day.) I did not develop any symptoms to suggest I was infected or am infected with COVID19.

I am thankful to God that nothing unusual happened to me during my isolation. I am thankful to my family, especially my wife-warden who took care of me, and all my patients and friends who prayed for me and wished me well.

So, March 29, 2020, I go into another stage of helping the nation fight against COVID19 (which I actually started doing in January 28, 2020 with my ROJoson-OCIL-OLETE on Novel Coronavirus).

So, today, I launched the ROJDonors -MuReilief-HelpThru Against COVID19 for Rural Health Units.

Mechanics:

Identify MU brods and sisses who are currently doctors to the barrios and municipal health officers managing rural health units in the country.

The Mu brods and sisses will serve a Mu Relief Coordinators in their respective RHUs.

They will come out with a proactive and structured program that will ensure COVID19-free or COVID19-contained community and if not free, NO patient dies of COVID19 and NO health worker dies of COVID19..

ROJoson Donors through HelpThru will initially finance each of the Mu Relief Coordinators P25K to P50K worth of PPEs and N95 masks.

The Mu Relief Coordinators will submit a program design and development plan against COVID19 and report the implementation results at planned intervals.

The Mu Relief Coordinators may receive further funding from ROJoson Donors if there is deemed a good program program design and development plan and evidence of good implementation.

Funds will NOT be sourced or will NOT come from the Mu members but from ROJoson Donors.

I have pledged support to the following on March 29, 2020:

  • Dr. Johna Mandac - Dinalupihan, Bataan

  • Dr. Lorenzo Maria de Guzman - Turtle Islands, Tawi-Tawi

  • Dr. Patrisha Quema - Polanco, Zamboanga del Norte

  • Dr. Anne Dominique Asis - Pintuyan, Southern Leyte

  • Dr. Kaka Bulong - Sallapadan, Abra

The RHUs that will be supported by this project WILL NOT BE LIMITED to Mu DTTBs and MHOs.

Dr. Justo Danguilan, my Mu Fraternity Batch 74 Batch Leader, has volunteered on March 29, 2020 to be the Mu Relief Coordinator for Northern Luzon RHUs (and in the future, including government hospitals) in the fight against COVID19.

Mu Relief Coordinators are expected to have a written program design and development plan against COVID19 in their community.

Goals:

To ensure

  • COVID19-free or COVID19-contained community through a well-designed program

  • NO patient dies of COVID19 through a well-designed program

  • NO health workers die of COVID19 through a well-designed program

Criteria for quality of project

  • To what extent does the project make a difference in the control of COVID19 in the community?

  • Were the process and means by which the project was conducted adequate and innovative (in the face of limited resources) to meet its goals?

  • What are the results? Are these measurable? [No. of confirmed cases / pui / pum; No. of patients infected and dying of COVID19; No. of healthcare workers infected and dying of COVID19]

  • Is it sustainable and applicable to other re-emerging infectious disease?

Template for Design and Development Plan Against COVID19 in the Community

Situational Analysis

  • Philippine

  • Province

  • Focused community

No. of confirmed cases / PUI / PUM

Prevention and control system

Logistics

Goals:

To ensure

  • COVID19-free or COVID19-contained community through a well-designed program

  • NO patient dies of COVID19 through a well-designed program

  • NO health workers die of COVID19 through a well-designed program

Key Result Areas

Performance Indicators

Implementation plans

Evaluation plans

Timelines

Logistics needed

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