The Primary Health Care/Federated Women’s Club Program
of Surigao City is a showcase of the Department of Health’s
thrust of “putting health in the hands of the people.”
A model of DOH-PO-LGU partnership, this program is
an outstanding achievement in the delivery of primary health
care to the socially and geographically disadvantaged areas
of the city.
The Federated Women’s Club with a total membership
of 7,200 active mothers ranging from 20 to 70 years old
had established 186 chapters in all the 54 barangays of
the city with an average of 15 women members per chapter.
Every chapter has a Volunteer Barangay Health Worker
(BHW), Barangay Nutrition Scholar (BNS) and trained hilots
(midwives) and officers.
The mothers are mainly involved in promotive and
preventive health. They raise awareness among the people
in the community and treat common illness. They have also
concocted a herbal medicine for cough, which they directly
distribute to the people or through the botika sa barangay.
