Conceived in 1988 at the height of the insurgency problem
in the hinterlands of Negros Oriental, the Community Primary
Hospital (CPH) now serves as a center for both primary health
care to residents in underserved and isolated mountainous
and coastal barangays in the province. Designed as a self-sustaining
and self-propelling hospital, CPH is managed by communities
with the barangay captain as head of the hospital board.
Four CPHs have improved the general health status of 103,046
beneficiaries.
Hand-in-hand with the primary hospital is another
program called Community-based Resource Management, which
seeks to alleviate poverty by empowering farmers and fisherfolk
organizations to take a proactive role in environmental
protection and rehabilitation. These organizations were
trained to be effective resource managers of their watersheds
and municipal waters through the community-based agro-forestry
and nearshore fisheries project technologies. This has resulted
in the change in cropping intensity, and improvement in
the living standards of the program participants. The fishing
communities have also reported a marked increase in fish
catch and income. This program currently serves close to
4,700 beneficiaries.
